Verizon Wireless Launches 3G Consumer Services
Verizon Wireless will launch its ‘VCAST” 3G wireless multimedia service for consumers — beginning February 1, 2005. VCAST will run over the company’s broadband…
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Ericsson chosen by Telstra to supply 3G network
Ericsson was named as the exclusive 3G/WCDMA vendor to Telstra for up to the next five years. The estimated value of the framework agreement…
Alvarion Targets First WiMAX Broadband Mobility Within a Year
Alvarion expects to complete development of a mobile WiMAX solution based on the 802.16e standard within a year. The target launch in 2006 is…
Cingular and Lucent Test HSDPA at 3 Mbps
Cingular Wireless and Lucent Technologies completed the first HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) data calls on the 3G UMTS trial network deployed by the…
Samsung Phone Supports 1X-EVDO
Samsung Telecommunications America debuted a clamshell mobile phone that supports 1X-EVDO networks and combines Video on Demand (VOD) capabilities, a 1.3 mega pixel camera,…
NTT DoCoMo Tests 1 Gbps VSF-Spread OFDM
NTT DoCoMo has successfully tested a broadband wireless access system with 1 Gbps downlink capability. The 4G radio access equipment employed variable-spreading-factor spread orthogonal…
Motorola Debuts IP-based Push-To-Talk Engine for iDEN
Motorola announced an agreement with Nextel Communications to implement Next Generation Dispatch (NGD), a new IP-based Push-To-Talk (PTT) call processing engine. The NGD solution…
Motorola Announces Three-Year Extension of iDEN Contracts with Nextel
Motorola reached an agreement with Nextel Communications to extend its iDEN infrastructure and iDEN subscriber supply agreements for a period of three years from…
CWA Calls for Scrutiny of Sprint, Nextel Wireless Merger
The Communications Workers of America, a union that represents about 3,400 Sprint employees who work for Sprint’s local telephone companies, calling on federal and…
QUALCOMM Opens BREW Developer Lab in India
QUALCOMM opened a BREW Developer Lab in Mumbai, India. The new lab, one of nine BREW developer labs worldwide, will provide Indian application developers…
Sprint Nextel to Pursue on CDMA-EVDO Vision, Spinoff Wireline Divisions
Sprint and Nextel Communications confirmed their plans to merge into a larger wireless and integrated communications service provider. The two companies currently serve more…
India's BSNL Selects Nortel to Expand GSM/GPRS
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the largest telecommunications company in India, awarded a contract valued at approximately US$500 million to Nortel Networks to expand…
China Unicom Awards $344 Million in Contracts to Motorola
China Unicom awarded Motorola multiple contracts, which resulted in approximately US$344 million of orders, during the past six months for a major Phase 3.2…