Qualcomm and NEC Test A-GPS Services

NEC Europe has announced the successful completion of assisted-GPS (A-GPS) interoperability testing (IOT) on a commercial GPRS/WCDMA network in Japan and London. IOT was conducted using Qualcomm gpsOne-enabled mobile phones and NEC's location-information system built upon Qualcomm's QPoint platform to confirm the accuracy, protocol and end-to-end interoperability of Secure User Plane for Location (SUPL) Version 1.0.

SUPL Version 1.0, adopted by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), is a standards-based protocol that allows a mobile handset client to communicate with a location server and realizes a cost-effective way to provide higher-accuracy location-based services.

"NEC is committed to the global success of location-based information services. In 2001, our technology enabled the first commercial user-plane location information system built in Japan," said Ruth Brannvall, Head of Value Added Services, NEC Europe Ltd. "Today, the success of our IOT with Qualcomm ensures the user-plane A-GPS location-information system is no longer dependent upon operators' control plane networks, providing continual improvements to mobile operators' location-based information services."

Posted to the site on 21st September 2006