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 to your compatriots on dry land, the new SO902WP+ from Sony Ericsson is able to survive for up to half an hour in a metre-deep of water. Available now through the DoCoMo people in Japan, the SO902WP+ is basically an upgrade of sorts to the previously released SO902i. [3G!] Source

Posted by Budi Putra on May 21st, 2006 No Comments »

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 province, will position Bakrie to meet escalating subscriber demand for the voice and fixed wireless broadband Internet, data and fax services it provides via its 'Esia' brand. "We are currently experiencing 55% growth within one quarter in 2006 and expect to grow this base to approximately 1.35 million subscribers during 2006, more than double last year's total," said AG Rao, Chief Technical Officer, PT ...

Posted by Budi Putra on May 18th, 2006 No Comments »

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 subscribers. NTT DoCoMo is the creator of W-CDMA technology, the new de facto global industry standard, as well as the groundbreaking mobile i-mode service. NTT DoCoMo is collaborating with Microsoft to incorporate Windows Media in its 3G wireless phones. The companies announced Thursday that Windows Media Audio and Digital Rights Management 10 would be used in the F902iS handset NTT will release ...

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

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 terrible... And you do not need to amaze that even Australia's biggest telco, Telstra, says it can't yet predict the number of consumers its third generation mobile phone handsets will capture. Telstra is currently building a $1 billion third generation, or 3G, mobile phone network, paving the way for faster and cheaper mobile phone services. Read more

Posted by Budi Putra on May 9th, 2006 No Comments »

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 network as it manoeuvres to keep ahead of the pack of telcos rolling out the high tech service. In February the company launched a campaign to get customers using its 2G (second generation) service to upgrade to 3G or third generation, which allows them to make video calls and access live mobile TV broadcasts. Hutchison was the first major telco in Australia to launch the ...

Posted by Budi Putra on May 9th, 2006 No Comments »

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, almost 500,000 Hutchison mobile subscribers were offered a new free 3G handset as the provider moved to ditch its 2G network. Optus chief executive Paul O'Sullivan said the telco would look to offer free handsets before Christmas. "We are driven by customer behaviours, rather than necessarily by the technology itself," Mr O'Sullivan said. [3G!] Source

Posted by Budi Putra on May 8th, 2006 No Comments »

The number of third generation mobile phones in Finland doubled in the month after new laws took effect on April 1 allowing bundled sales of phones and subscriptions, a senior executive at operator Elisa said on Monday. "The number of 3G handsets has doubled in a month, they are now 2 percent of all phones and the churn has come down," Matti Vikkula, Elisa's executive vice president for private customer business, said at Helsinki's MobileMonday technology fair. Mobile operators in Finland had competed fiercely on price for several years, with call costs dropping at the fastest speed in Europe last year, according to research firm Informa. But competition has calmed in recent months, with operators like TeliaSonera announcing their first price hikes. ...

Posted by Budi Putra on May 8th, 2006 No Comments »

Indonesia's fixed wireless access operator PT Bakrie Telecom Tbk (BTEL) will soon launch 1xEV-DO-based 3G services, BTEL's president director Anindya Novyan Bakrie told 3GWeek recently. In near future, BTEL will implement a trial of 1xEV-DO in selected areas in the capital city Jakarta. A direct evolution of the CDMA2000 third-generation (3G) wireless standards, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO enables high-speed wireless connectivity comparable to wired broadband. CDMA2000 1xEV-DO (evolution, data-optimized) is leading the convergence of wireless and personal electronics, spawning a new generation of multi-purpose wireless devices. 1xEV-DO enables individuals to send and receive email with large file attachments, play real-time interactive games, receive and send high-resolution pictures and video, download video and music content or stay ...

Posted by Budi Putra on May 3rd, 2006 3 Comments »

The third generation (3G) will come to many commercial laptops. Over the weekend, HP and Vodafone in Ireland revealed that Vodafone 3G Connect Cards will come bundled with every HP commercial laptop. The offer is subject to the customer signing up for a business plan with Vodafone. The promotion is currently available across the entire range of HP laptops. The news comes within weeks of Dell striking a similar deal with Vodafone to embed 3G connectivity within its laptops, followed by HSDPA (high-speed download packet access) functionality in laptops later this year. Malaysia’s Multimedia Prospect Sdn Bhd recently also announced the availability of the Sierra Wireless AirCard 850, a PC Card for accessing 3G HSDPA services in ...

Posted by Budi Putra on May 3rd, 2006 1 Comment »

The power of 3G will be on your notebook. Not only in your latest 3G-enable handset, but you can enjoy Internet broadband or video call in the widest screen of laptop. Malaysia's Multimedia Prospect Sdn Bhd recently announced the availability of the Sierra Wireless AirCard 850, a PC Card for accessing 3G HSDPA services. The AirCard 850 works on HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) networks, and it utilises the 2100MHz frequency band for Asian users. Multimedia Prospect said the product has been tested with the 3G services offered by local telcos Maxis and Celcom. The AirCard 850 is also backward compatible with EDGE, GPRS and GSM networks, on all four ...

Posted by Budi Putra on May 2nd, 2006 1 Comment »