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Sri Lanka Offers 3G Licence at US$5M

Sri Lanka yesterday offered third-generation (3G) mobile phone network licences to the country’s four cellular phone operators at US$5 million each. The 3G licences will allow the companies to offer high-speed voice and data transmission. The largest mobile company in Sri Lanka, Dialog Telekom, was already carrying out 3G trials, while two other firms - Mobitel [...]

SK Telecom Launches First 3G HSDPA

SK Telecom proved Korea as the leader of third-generation (3G) mobile network technology with the kick-off of the world’s first commercial HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) service. SK Telecom introduced today a first-ever 3.5 generation (3.5G) network HSDPA handset and announced the launching of the world’s first handset-based commercial HSDPA network. The company has named [...]

Sony Ericsson Delivers Waterproof 3G Handset

If you have to spend your time in deep sea, don’t worry, you still can connect to the world, even send your great and exclusive picture to your family members live from the surface using 3G network! While you can’t go deep sea diving with this thing and send off a huge picture and/or video files [...]

Bakrie Telecom Grows Fixed Wireless Indonesian Network with Nortel Solutions

PT Bakrie Telecom, one of Indonesia’s leading providers of fixed wireless voice and data services, is significantly boosting the capacity and transmission capabilities of its wireless network with new radio access, switching and optical solutions from Nortel. The increased capacity of the CDMA2000 1X network, serving Greater Jakarta and 15 cities in West Java and Banten [...]

NTT DoCoMo Develops 3G FOMA Handsets

NTT DoCoMo and its eight regional subsidiaries have announced the newly developed 3G FOMA SA702i and SO702i handsets, the latest additions to the FOMA 702i series. Like other 702i handsets, the two models offer regular FOMA features such as videophone and Deco-mail, and also i-channel, which automatically delivers news, weather, entertainment, sports and horoscopes via [...]

DoCoMo 3G Phones Get Windows Media

The third generation (3G) providers in Japan have came to “open war” now. In facing the fast growing of the rival KDDI with CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and BREW platform, NTT DoCoMo chooses Windows Media to support their W-CDMA handset. Japan’s premier mobile communications company, NTT DoCoMo, provides wireless voice and data communications to tens of millions of [...]

HP Provides 3G Cards for W-CDMA and EV-DO

HP seems ready to enter the potencial 3G market by providing two kind of card in notebooks for both 3G W-CDMA and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO. Wireless equipment vendor Sierra Wireless today announced that HP has selected its HSDPA PCI Express Mini Card embedded modules to provide 3G connectivity in the firm’s forthcoming 6400 notebook PCs. For non-GSM markets [...]

Telstra Unsure of 3G Customer Numbers

Everyone now speaks about the third generation (3G) tecnology and services. So how far you understand about the future of the high-tech telecommunication industry? Are you really using all 3G features when the service come to your mobile phone? Or you will use your 3G-enabled phone just for voice and short message service, huh? It’s [...]

Hutchison to Move All Customers to 3G

Sooner or later, moving all recent customers in the existing 2G network to the 3G network is very important policy to do by operator. Since the migration could do seamlessly, hopefully customers are experiencing 3G service sooner. Hutchison Telecommunications will become the first mobile phone provider in Australia to move all its customers to the 3G [...]

Optus Considers Free 3G Phones

Optus is preparing to offer free mobile phones to push customers towards its third generation srvice, but hasn’t found an appropriate handset or price. The number-two telco has spent $370 million on its 3G mobile network, which gives users faster and cheaper services, but is yet to aggressively push its 2G customers towards it. Earlier this year, [...]


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