December 8th, 2006
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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 [...]
December 6th, 2006
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Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM.O: Quote, Profile , Research) shares jumped more than 4 percent on Tuesday after China said it may grant a license for a next-generation cellphone network that would boost royalties to the wireless technology and chip supplier.
Qualcomm shares rose $1.61, or 4.3 percent, to $38.99 in early afternoon trade on Nasdaq.
Ed Snyder, an analyst [...]
November 3rd, 2006
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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 [...]
November 3rd, 2006
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A two-month trial of China’s third generation mobile technology will begin on either Sunday or Monday in Beijing, Shanghai and three other cities in China, Sina.com reported today. TD-SCDMA, time division-synchronous code division multiple access, was developed in China and is one of the world’s three next-generation mobile standards.
Initially, the trial TD-SCDMA network will involve [...]
October 9th, 2006
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Infineon Technologies AG announced that its GPRS/UMTS multimedia platform will power Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd’s newest Softbank 705P mobile handset. The Softbank Mobile Corp. handset will be for the Japan market. Infineon’s scalable Multimedia Platform EDGE/UMTS (MP-EU) allows mobile phone manufacturers to introduce various UMTS models based on the same core architecture, reducing [...]
September 27th, 2006
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Malaysia’s biggest mobile firm, Maxis Communications Bhd, will spend a total of RM2.2 billion over the next three years to expand its third generation (3G) network and wireless broadband Internet services. The company expects a break- even period of about three years.
Maxis aims to make broadband available to three quarters of all households by 2010. [...]
September 27th, 2006
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Vietnam will follow its ASEAN partners to launch 3G services.
The Ministry of Post and Telematics (MPT) is checking technical standards to prepare for the issuance of a regulation on using frequency bands for the 3G network.
The MPT plans to issue a business licence to the first firm that meets conditions to offer 3G services next [...]
September 18th, 2006
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Mobile softswitch ideal to combine 2G and 3G services.
Nokia has signed a nationwide supply contract with the Philippine telecommunications company Globe Telecom Inc. This network modernization deal includes an upgrade of the Globe Telecom circuit switched core network, also enabling fixed mobile convergence.
Under the agreement Nokia will renew the core network of Globe Telecom including [...]
September 15th, 2006
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Nokia has proved that its Communicator brand has successfully shaped a significant milestone in the contemporary marketing history of Indonesia as well as the world.
Nokia Indonesia conducted the Communicator Community Gathering today to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Nokia Communicator’s presence in Indonesia. More than 2,000 Communicator users attended the gathering at Grand Hyatt [...]
August 23rd, 2006
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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 [...]
