3gweek.net

the journal of asia's telecommunication

Archive for the 'America' Category

Who’s afraid of the big bad cell phone bill? A lot of people, apparently. A quarter of MinuteWatcher’s visitors on the first day signed up for the free service and started receiving semiweekly alerts about their cell phone usage.
MinuteWatcher puts customers in control of their usage. The company monitors unbilled cell phone usage and sends […]

Internet cell phones sales remain robost and are increasing daily as customer are feeling at ease ordering cell phones on line and thereby saving time and money.
Trends in cell phone sales are announced and logged at http://www.westerncell.com/ “Great Eight” cell phones sales. The most popular/best selling cell phones are featured on their front page. There […]

HP seems ready to enter the potencial 3G market by providing two kind of card in notebooks for both 3G W-CDMA and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO.
Wireless equipment vendor Sierra Wireless today announced that HP has selected its HSDPA PCI Express Mini Card embedded modules to provide 3G connectivity in the firm’s forthcoming 6400 notebook PCs.
For non-GSM markets […]

Canada’s Bell Expands 3G Network

Published Date: April 29th, 2006
Category: 3G, Network Operator, 3G 1xEV-DO, America

Just like mostly other coutries in the American continent, Canada expanded 3G CDMA2000 1xEV-DO network. The country’s second largest cellco Bell Mobility has expanded the network to cover Ottawa, Hamilton, Burlington and Oakville, alongside a new roaming agreement with Aliant to provide its users with EV-DO services in Halifax. [3G!]
Source

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 […]