Articles tagged with: 2g and CDMA

LTE equipment catches up to WiMAX; $245B to be spent on mobile equipment 2011-2015

­While the overall mobile infrastructure market is down sequentially, according to Infonetics Research, investment continues, particularly 2g/3G network modernization in Western Europe, CDMA upgrades in North America, and 2g/EDGE capacity upgrades in Asia  more

Related Tags: lte, wimax, ericsson, samsung, huawei, alvarion, motorola


Telecom New Zealand to Shut-Down its CDMA Network

Telecom New Zealand has announced plans to shut-down its CDMA network as it continues to migrate customers over to its recently deployed WCDMA platform. The company said that CDMA roaming would cease at the end of this October, and the 3G network will close down at the end of this November. The 2g based CDMA network will close in 2012.  more

Related Tags: telecom-new-zealand, wcdma, telecom, New Zealand


Alcatel-Lucent and LG Complete Live handoff Between LTE and CDMA Networks

Alcatel-Lucent and LG say that they have completed a successful handoff of an end-to-end data call between LTE and CDMA mobile networks. ­The live, over-the-air handover involved an uninterrupted streaming video session conducted during test drives in the New York metropolitan area over Alcatel-Lucent's LTE and CDMA/EV-DO infrastructure using an LG Electronics CDMA/LTE dual mode device.  more

Related Tags: lte, alcatel-lucent, lg, new-york, packet-core, evolved-packet-core, video, seamless,


Chinese Believe WCDMA Phones Superior to CDMA and TD-SCDMA Models

Over half (58%) of Chinese customers believe that WCDMA phones are the best 3G network in the country, followed by CDMA2000 (14.1%) and just 4.3% saying that TD-SCDMA handsets are the best.  more

Related Tags: td-scdma, wcdma, china-mobile, china-unicom, china-telecom, three, nokia,, coverage, music, 3g-network, era, video, China


China Unicom Selects Alcatel-Lucent to Deploy 3G Networks in 14 Provinces

Alcatel-Lucent says that it has been selected by China Unicom to deploy 3G W-CDMA networks in 14 Chinese provinces. Initial network deployments in the cities of Tianjin, Baoding, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Guiyang and Guilin are expected to be completed in May, 2009.  more

Related Tags: 3g, base-station, china-unicom, w-cdma, wcdma, edge, alcatel-lucent, iden, shanghai, gsm, partner, alcatel-lucent-shanghai-bell, bell, home-location-register, unicom, fujian, China


HSPA Drives Mobile Infrastructure Market Growth in 2008

According to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the worldwide total mobile infrastructure market revenue grew 5 percent in 2008, driven by the nearly doubling and quadrupling of revenue of the WCDMA and WiMAX markets, respectively.  more

Related Tags: 3g, base-station, smartphone, wimax, wcdma, smartphones, driving, lte, hspa, mobile-broadband, dell, gsm, true


3G Should Keep the Mobile Phone Market Ticking Over in 2009

The global mobile handset market went into a tailspin in October and November, which will result in a nearly 5% YoY decline in unit shipments in Q4. While 2009 is likely to see more stormy economic weather, there are a few rays of sunshine.  more

Related Tags: smartphone, wcdma, smartphones, abi-research, usb-modem, mobile-broadband, cdma2000, modem, global-mobile, modems


InterDigital Settles Mobile Phone Patent Dispute with Samsung

InterDigital says that it has settled an ongoing patent dispute with Samsung - and entered into a binding term sheet with the company covering Samsung's sale of 2g products, as well as the 3G patent licensing disputes for Samsung's sales of products through 2012.  more

Related Tags: samsung, wcdma, interdigital, cdma2000, option, patent


WiMAX, 3G and Number Portability to Drive Indian Wireless Market in 2009

Defying the global economic slowdown, India's mobile-phone demand is expected to continue to rise at an accelerated rate in 2009 due to the rollout of 3G and WiMAX networks and the implementation of Mobile Number Portability (MNP), according to iSuppli.  more

Related Tags: iphone, wimax, apple, apple, rsa, isuppli, vodafone, mtn, mobile-number-portability, number-portability, chennai, delhi, wireless-broadband, mnp, testing, churn, airtel, India


Asia-Pacific CDMA Growth Slows to an All-Time Low

GSM continues to increase its dominance of the Asia Pacific market. Of the 99m new connections made in the quarter, only 13m chose any other standard and of those, 11.3m went for the GSM-enhancement, W-CDMA. Nearly 80% of all customers in the region now use GSM - 1.232bn out of 1.545bn - with CDMA the only other real contender. At the end of June, there were 191.3m customers connected to the various forms of this standard slightly up on the 189.4m at the end of March.  more

Related Tags: asia-pacific, w-cdma, docomo, lg, softbank, ev-do


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