The Indian government might announce their much awaited 3G policy soon. This is now possible as the defense ministry has agreed to vacate 40 MHz spectrum by July. Opening of the 3G market in India would enable the mobile service providers to launch high-speed data download and interactive services like video gaming and stock trading. Department of Telecommunications (DoT) secretary DS Mathur said in a statement: “The 3G policy will come very soon hopefully by the month-end.” Source: Sifybroadband

Posted by Budi Putra on April 7th, 2007 No Comments »

The latest trials for the homegrown third-generation mobile standard TD- SCDMA starting this month will last at least 10 months. Beijing will issue three 3G licenses: one for the homegrown TD-SCDMA, one for W-CDMA as used in Europe, and one for the CDMA 2000 system adopted in Japan and South Korea. The trial, this time led by China Mobile Communications, the parent of China Mobile (0941), covers at least eight cities, including the six cities where the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games are scheduled to be held. "It's like a neverending story as there was a TD-SCDMA trial in 2005," the source said. "The latest trials are still only a partial test. Maybe a complete test will be needed after that." Separately, a mainland ...

Posted by Budi Putra on March 4th, 2007 1 Comment »

Japanese telecom equipment maker NEC is willing to participate in rolling out a third generation (3G) mobile network in Russia. Russian operators are reportedly enthusiastic about the offer. According yo Russian IT and Telecommunications Minister Leonid Reiman, NEC had offered an advanced solution dubbed "3.5G". Third generation (3G) is a set of wireless technologies that offer expanded opportunities for high-speed data transfer, including video broadcasting and video calls. Results of a tender for 3G licenses in Russia are to be announced on April 20. The telecoms regulator received applications from 11 operators as of Monday, including bids from Russia's three largest mobile operators - MTS, VimpelCom and MegaFon. Source: Cellular News

Posted by Budi Putra on March 1st, 2007 No Comments »

Asia is really the next big market in the world’s telecommunications business. At the current growth rate, there will be half a billion mobile subscribers in the country by 2010. With 150 million subscribers but market penetration of still only 15 percent, India is already the world`s fourth-biggest mobile market behind China, the United States and Russia. Telecom numbers are not just talking, they’re talking big in India. According to latest figures available with the telecom ministry and TRAI, India will have hit the magical figure of 200 million phones even as you read this story. This includes wireless (GSM, CDMA, WLL-F) and fixed-line phones. In mobile subscribers, India now ranks fourth behind China, USA and Russia which ...

Posted by Budi Putra on February 20th, 2007 No Comments »

Four-day trade event to bring together key technologies, companies and thought leaders to deliver on the 'Digital Convergence in Reality' experience LONDON - The CommunicAsia Exhibition and Conference - now recognised as Asia's premier technology event - will showcase a converged world when it opens for business later this year in Singapore (June 19-22). CommunicAsia is well established on the world stage and will feature a wide spectrum of cutting edge, enabling digital technologies from global companies. The conference will see leading industry figures sharing their vision of future developments in Digital Convergence. Spread over a total of eight halls, CommunicAsia - alongside EnterpriseIT, BroadcastAsia, and InteractiveDME -- will see over 2,400 companies come together to demonstrate the transforming powers of digital technologies ...

Posted by Budi Putra on February 19th, 2007 No Comments »

3G handsets have potential market in the region. Asustek Computer will begin to ship two 3G handsets to O2 Asia Pacific this month, followed by Quanta Computer and Arima Communications, which will each ship a 3G device to the company, according to market sources. The two models from Asustek are the O2 Xda Zinc PDA phone and the O2 Graphite smartphone, with both models featuring Xscale processors from Marvell and a 2-megapixel built-in camera, said the sources. Quanta will deliver the Atom Life PDA phone to O2 Asia. The Atom Life is a successor to O2's Atom and Atom Exec handsets and is able to support high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technology, the sources noted, adding that the Atom Life features a ...

Posted by Budi Putra on February 2nd, 2007 No Comments »

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 technology (3G), the term "value added services", which used to refer to all services beyond voice calls, may be in for a new definition. The new technology literally allows the user to have a broadband internet connection in the palm of his or her hand, offering an endless list of services. For cellular content providers, the technological revolution has opened up new frontiers for innovation and growth. Iqbal ...

Posted by Budi Putra on January 29th, 2007 No Comments »

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.

Posted by Budi Putra on January 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »

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. Click here for details.

Posted by Budi Putra on December 12th, 2006 No Comments »

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 Vista-ready and powered by a choice of Intel Core 2 Duo processors. In an overture to knowledge workers with wanderlust, Hewlett-Packard and Cingular have launched what they are claiming is the world's first notebook Relevant Products/Services with built-in global 3G capabilities. The HP Relevant Products/Services Compaq nc6400 boasts a built-in Cingular Wireless UMTS/HSDPA module -- in plain English, hardware that lets the notebook connect to ...

Posted by Budi Putra on December 12th, 2006 1 Comment »