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Top 25 Telco Stories in 2006

Published Date: January 2nd, 2007
Category: 3G, Handset, CDMA, Technology, Cell Phone, Vendor, GSM, Tech Idea, News, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung

Cellular-news.com keeps a counter to track which news articles are of most interest to you, the readers. As an end-of-year idea, below are the most popular stories published on cellular-news as read by yourselves over the past year, in order of popularity.
1 - Cingular Patenting the Emoticon
The USA based mobile operator, Cingular […]

HP introduces 3G laptop

Published Date: December 12th, 2006
Category: 3G, 3G WCDMA, HSDPA, GSM, UMTS, News

Definitely I need to add this notebook to my wish list.
Hewlett-Packard’s new nc6400 is a 3G-capable laptop that offers download speeds fast enough to pull in podcasts, multimedia-heavy Web sites, and even videos — from just about any major city around the world — thanks to the built-in Cingular 3G module. The nc6400 is also […]

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 […]

This is another new handset challenger in 3G market…
Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced its first UMTS-capable handhelds, the BlackBerry 8707g and 8707v, in Singapore. Both models, which essentially offer the same features but with slight differentiation in exterior casing, will be carried by all three local mobile operators. The 8707g will be available from […]

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 […]

Indonesia has five 3G licensed-operators. Yes, you got it right: Five. The problem is, none of them is actually operating.
Telkomsel, Indonesia’s leading cellular operator, will launch commercial 3G services only later this year. Indosat and Excelcom, two other biggest GSM operators, did some trials in Jakarta last year, but we haven’t heard much from them […]

Nokia, a leading mobile networks supplier, recently announced that it has won a GSM network expansion deal with Sichuan Unicom, a subsidiary of China Unicom. The agreement is Nokia’s first with Sichuan Unicom and marks a significant milestone for Nokia in entering the GSM market in Sichuan and West China. The deal also highlights Nokia’s […]