April 19th, 2006
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has announced that the country is making substantial progress in the telecoms sector, with teledensity now at 22 per cent. PTA plans to complete preparatory work for 3G technology within the next six to eight months.
Pakistan had some 27 million mobile subscribers at the end of March, according to the [...]
April 18th, 2006
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France’s Alcatel and USA-based Lucent Technologies have lots of reasons to stick with their old names after they complete their $13.5 billion merger. Several hundred million reasons, perhaps.
When Alcatel unveiled its acquisition of Lucent earlier this month, Alcatel Chief Executive Serge Tchuruk said that the two telecom-equipment giants would “choose a name later on.”
Yet rebranding [...]
April 18th, 2006
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The number of GSM mobile users in Latin America and the Caribbean is expected to grow 50% this year to 180 million compared to 2005, Erasmo Rojas, Latin America and Caribbean director for GSM industry association 3G Americas, told BNamericas.
At the end of the first quarter, Latin America recorded nearly 260 million mobile users up [...]
April 18th, 2006
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Digi International Monday unveiled the telecom industry’s first upgradeable commercial-grade 3G wireless area network (WAN) router. The Minnesota company said in a news release that the ConnectPort WAN will appeal to companies that require high-speed connections for 3G (third-generation) wireless services.
ConnectPort performs a variety of functions, including cellular routing, firewall and switching and can remotely [...]
April 17th, 2006
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China’s government will release 3G telecom licenses in September 2006, according to a China Mobile insider quoted by eNet. The report said that China Mobile plans to increase the pace of construction of its WCDMA network and has set up 3G trial networks in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Huizhou of Guangdong province. [3G!]
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April 17th, 2006
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Malaysia’s Celcom and Maxis have launched 3G interconnection, enabling interconnect video telephony. By opening access between the two major 3G networks, the 3G user community in Malaysia immediately increased twofold, allowing Celcom’s and Maxis’ users to make and receive video calls, and send and retrieve video messages among themselves.
Both service providers are confident that interconnection [...]
April 17th, 2006
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The number of new mobile phone subscribers of Indonesia’s second largest telecoms firm, PT Indosat Tbk, may fall by 8-12 percent in the first quarter of this year from the same period in 2005, its chief said on Monday.
However, Hasnul Suhaimi, Indosat’s president director, told reporters the company still retained its target of between 3-4 [...]
April 15th, 2006
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The number of 3G (third-generation) mobile subscribers is expected to grow quickly in China, despite getting off to a relatively slow start, according to a telecommunications research firm in Beijing.
China will have 5.5 million 3G subscribers within the first 12 months that these services are available, according to Norson (Hong Kong) Information Technology, in Beijing. [...]
April 15th, 2006
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Analysys International, a leading Internet based provider of business information about technology, media and telecom (TMT) industries in China, says 440,000 users will be using 3G mobile terminals by the end of 2006 and by the year 2008, 78.08 million users will be using 3G mobile terminals in China.
According to the report ‘China Mobile Terminal [...]
April 15th, 2006
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The 2006 China 3G Summit ran from April 12-14 and was held at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center. The 3G Summit runs concurrently with the 20th Tele-Expo China and the 67th China Electronics Fair, one of the largest annual telecom exhibitions in China. The 3G Summit was organized by China’s Ministry of Information Industry [...]
i meant 3G
should be cheaper though…
