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Huawei completes WiMAX trials in Japan

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, announced that it has successfully completed two trials of its end-to-end Mobile WiMAX solution for Reinan Cable Network Co., Ltd and Beam Planning Corporation in Japan . The trials were carried out in cooperation with Fujikura, a [...]

India’s 3G policy might be announced soon

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 [...]

New China’s 3G trials due to last months

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 [...]

Japan’s NEC eyeing Russian 3G rollout

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 [...]

Worldwide SMS revenues to hit $67bn by 2012

SMS continues to be a phenomenal success as the cheapest, quickest and easiest to use form of peer-to-peer mobile communication. A new report from Portio Research forecasts a healthy future for SMS, which continues to be the star of the data services show with traffic volumes and revenues that continue to confound predictions. Although the growth [...]

India rings in with 200 million phones

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 [...]

CommunicAsia2007 to set the stage for a convergent world

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 [...]

Taiwan producers to start shipping 3G PDA phones

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 [...]

3G revolution spurs content innovation and growth

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 [...]

Learning from 3G countries: insights from Europe, Japan and South Korea

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. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ [...]


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