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Indonesia, which has five 3G operators (with three of them launched their services commercially) already, became the third ASEAN country after Singapore and Malaysia to have WCDMA-based 3G services. We will be joining around fifty million people who already have access to this service around the world.
With the advent of the third generation of cellular […]

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 […]

The 8th Mobile Monday Beijing will take place on Dec. 18 at Rain Club, an up-and-coming ‘fusion’ restaurant and lounge in Dongsishitiao. They invited speakers from Europe, Japan and South Korea to tell us their 3G story and see if 3G is the holy grail that Operators and SPs seem to expect.
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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 […]

Vodafone offers bundling 3G TV

Published Date: December 8th, 2006
Category: 3G, Asia Pacific, Consumer, News

Vodafone offers bundling 3G services as an unlimitted usage option to its subscribers.
Vodafone has introduced what it says is Australia’s biggest mobile TV and music offering on Vodafone live! with 3G. In all there are 21 live and made for mobile TV channels to watch. Vodafone live! with 3G customers can now get access to […]

Personalisation and interactivity will be the key drivers of mobile TV according to a new report commissioned by Nokia and conducted by Dr Shani Orgad from the London School of Economics. The report, titled ‘This Box Was Made For Walking’, examines the future impact of mobile TV on the broadcasting and advertising industries.
The report predicts […]

3G is the future of the music industry

Published Date: November 10th, 2006
Category: 3G, Cell Phone, Tech Idea, Business Briefing, News

The future of music industry will rely on mobile phone and 3G technology will be a great enabler for it.
The mobile phone is set to become the retail channel of the future for music fans according to a report published by 3.
The report investigates how young people are using new technology to revolutionise the way […]

3G coming to Libya

Published Date: November 3rd, 2006
Category: 3G, Network Contract, Network Operator, 3G WCDMA, HSDPA, Asia Pacific, News

Libya is set to get its first 3G network, with the country’s second largest cellular operator Libyana rolling out a W-CDMA and HSDPA network covering 14 cities. Libyana has contracted ZTE of China to supply its 3G infrastructure.
The new network will have an initial capacity of one million lines. State-owned Libyana had around 700,000 subscribers […]