3GSM: News from the show
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Both Lucent Technologies and Ericsson today said they have won expanded contracts with Cingular Wireless for the buildout of its UMTS/high-speed downlink packet access network...
3GSM: Lucent releases one-box radio network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA, SPAIN--Lucent Technologies has managed to cram a base station, a radio network controller and core network router into a single box, effectively creating a single-element network. (Photographers/Source: JEFF ZELEVANSKY/Bloomberg News/Landov)...
3GSM: GSMA touts video sharing tests
By: By Dan O'Shea
BARCELONA, SPAIN--The GSM Association (GSMA), in an initiative led by Scandinavian mobile operator TeliaSonera, has begun interoperability trials on three continents to ensure that mobile users will be able to share video across networks. ...
3GSM: MetaSolv lays out IMS play
By: By Tim McElligott
BARCELONA, SPAIN-- MetaSolv Software used the backdrop of the 3GSM World Congress this week to present its strategy for IP multimedia subsystem, or IMS, support in convergent activation and mediation....
3GSM: News from the show
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Here's news from the third day of the 3GSM show in Barcelona, Spain....
TI aims high with new processor
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Though its current generation of advanced multimedia phone processors have yet to hit the market in the U.S., Texas Instruments this week went ahead and unveiled the next generation. At the 3GSM World Congress TI detailed a chipset that an Alcatel executive described as packing the combined power of PC, gaming console and digital camcorder....
3GSM: Alcatel unveils mobile WiMAX base station
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel became the first vendor out of the gate with a mobile WiMAX portfolio. At the 3GSM World Congress, it took the cover off of an Evolium base station built to the recently finalized IEEE 802.16e standards...
3GSM: “We come as friends,” says Microsoft CEO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA, SPAIN--Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered a conciliatory hand to the wireless industry today, delivering an afternoon keynote address at 3GSM World Congress that promised a more open Microsoft willing to embrace interoperability and multi-vendor platforms as opposed to a Microsoft intent on dominating the market....
3GSM: Skype goes mobile
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA --- VoIP provider Skype’s growing wireless efforts culminated today with the launch of its first major carrier deal over a cellular network. Hutchison Whampoa’s 3 Group has agreed to offer the Skype service on its UMTS networks across the world....
3GSM: WFI addresses EMEA needs
By: By Dan O'Shea
BARCELONA, SPAIN--Wireless Facilities Inc. (WFI), the San Diego company that has been active in municipal wireless projects in the U.S., announced at the 3GSM World Congress Show here that its European unit is launching a new risk management tool and technology consulting practice for carrier clients in the European-Middle East-Africa region. ...
Network Chemistry aligns with Xirrus
By: By Dan O'Shea
Wireless security company Network Chemistry is announcing today that it will license its RFprotect Distributed wireless LAN management solution to access point array maker Xirrus. The Xirrus WLAN Array combines a WLAN switch with up to 16 Integrated Access Points (IAPs) to address very large deployment areas. ...
3GSM: Sun, Openwave to merge Java, browsing
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA, SPAIN--Sun Microsystems and Openwave today announced they would collaborate to create a development platform that would meld Java and WAP, allowing developers to build Java applications with embedded browser access...
Ditech’s quality is Job One for Orascom
By: By Tim McElliogott
Ditech Communications is bringing its Voice Quality Assurance to mobile operators in the Middle East through a deal announced this week with Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E....
O2 plays numbers game with Evolving Systems
By: By Tim McElligott
Englewood, Colo.-based Evolving Systems took its number inventory management software to Germany this week and will install the NumeriTrack system for O2...
Nokia wins core contract with Ericsson-run 3
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Just two months after handing over the reins of its network to Ericsson, 3 U.K. announced today it has awarded a major network core upgrade from Ericsson’s arch competitor Nokia...
IPWireless and MobiTV team up
By: By Kevin Fitchard
IPWireless and MobiTV today announced a partnership to jointly develop mobile TV technologies over IPWireless' TDtv multicast networks. ...
InFocus: Can multi-carrier PAs resurrect old cell-site assets?
By: By Peter Kenington
Multicarrier power amplifiers (MCPAs) claim much in terms of flexibility, adaptability and the range of applications in which they can be employed. Is all this hype justified, especially from a technology with its roots in a 1920s patent? Read more about a new range of MCPA-based systems that raise the bar in base station flexibility...
3GSM: Nortel tests HSUPA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks today said it has its high-speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) technology up and running and has performed its first live tests of simultaneous upstream and downstream data transmissions at speeds exceeding 1 Mb/s....
3GSM: Siano releases multi-standard mobile TV chip
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Siano Mobile Silicon said today it is unveiling the industry's first multi-standard digital TV chipset at the 3GSM World Congress next week....
Country boy
By: By Dan O'Shea
Ericsson has emerged from the worst crisis in the company's storied history under the guidance of an unlikely leader and with a plan to move up the vendor food chain...
Parsing the BlackBerry workaround
By: By Kevin Fitchard
RIM's shutdown antidote could be painful, but switching providers could be, too...
Is mesh for cable players?
By: By Dan O'Shea
Last October, Wi-Fi mesh vendor BelAir Networks announced that its radios would support the Cable Labs DOCSIS 2.0 standard, and also said Comcast Interactive Capital was investing in the company...
Sonim, Motorola release PoC products
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sonim and Motorola have both released push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) products, Sonim’s being an IMS-ready push-to-talk server and Motorola’s a prepaid mediation platform...
Netrake becomes Alcatel's UMA OEM
By: By Dan O'Shea
Netrake, a vendor of session border control and security gateway products, today said the company has been chosen by Alcatel to provide its nCite Security Gateway solution to support Alcatel's fixed-mobile convergence deployments based on the increasingly popular Unlicensed Mobile Access standard...
