Lucent and T-Mobile to Trial 3G Services

T-Mobile and Lucent Technologies have launched a joint pilot project to evaluate secure 3G services in Germany's Nuremberg region. This pilot network will leverage experience and expertise gained from the development of the Lucent UMTS network at its facility in Nuremberg.

Under the agreement, Lucent will supply T-Mobile with its Secure Mobile Data Solutions for Enterprises (SMDSe) offer, a pre-integrated package of hardware and software designed to enable business customers to use their laptop PCs or PDAs to access - from any location -- all the applications they normally use with the same level of security and performance they typically experience in their office.

A key component of this end-to-end solution is the 3GlobeTrotter(tm) UMTS wireless modem PCMCIA card -- jointly developed by Lucent and Option -- which supports high-speed data connections on laptops, PDAs and other mobile devices. Late last year, Lucent and Option completed the first data calls using the 3GlobeTrotter cards at Lucent's labs in Nuremberg, where substantial development work on the cards has been done.

Also included in the pilot network is Lucent's UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) -- comprised of the Flexent(r) OneBTS(tm) base station and Flexent Radio Network Controller - as well as Lucent's core packet switching network offer, including the Super Distributed Home Location Register, a Bell Labs Research innovation that manages customer information for both voice and 3G data services."

Posted to the site on 21st January 2003