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Cellular Reaches 2,5 Billion Lines

Published Date: September 10th, 2006
Category: 3G, Report, GPRS, Cell Phone, GSM, Consumer, UMTS, Business Briefing

Geekzone reported a very interesting statictic on cellular industry milestones. Mobile phone industry has become a spectacular industry: it took 20 years to reach 1 billion connections, three years to reach 2 billion connections and is on target to reach its third billion in a period of just over two years.
According to estimates from Wireless […]

Indonesia finally gets 3G

Published Date: August 16th, 2006
Category: 3G, 3G WCDMA, GPRS, Asia Pacific, GSM, UMTS, News, Nokia, Siemens

The country’s largest cellular operator, PT Telkomsel, launched its third-generation (3G) service yesterday, marking the first commercial introduction of 3G to Indonesia.
“Today marks the start of a new era in the world of Indonesian cellular telecommunications,” said Telkomsel president director Kiskenda Suriahardja.
During the kick-off ceremony, Telkomsel signed contracts for network deployment with vendors Nokia and […]

GSM Royalty?

Published Date: August 9th, 2006
Category: CDMA, GPRS, Chipset, Vendor, GSM, Business Briefing, News, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Qualcomm, EDGE

We know that GSM technology is a sort of open standard technology — just like Linux in computer world. And we consider its competitor, CDMA, as a propietry technology, which always deal with royalty, patent rights or something like that .
That is why, so far, Qualcomm — the owner of CDMA technology — has been […]

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 […]

3G Handset for 2006 World Cup

Published Date: April 30th, 2006
Category: 3G, Handset, 3G WCDMA, GPRS, Cell Phone, Europe, Vendor, Consumer, UMTS

For those who want to enjoy 2006 World Cup beginning June 6 in your handset, you may choose a new release of LG Electronic mobile phone, LG-U900. This phone supports the digital video broadcasting handheld (DVB-H) standard, exclussively to Italian mobile telecommunications service provider, Hutchison. The provider has exclusive DVB-H broadcasting rights for the 2006 […]

Nokia Leading the Evolution of 3G: HSPA

Published Date: April 27th, 2006
Category: 3G, Handset, 3G WCDMA, GPRS, HSPA, Cell Phone

Nokia High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is a cost-effective, high performance solution that helps operators tackle the challenges of providing high speed, quality services with optimized cost of delivery, a senior director Nokia Networks told in a business meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Speaking before Synovate Business Consulting - Breakfast Meeting 2006 in Hotel Mulia today, Arjun […]

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. […]