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Articles tagged with: 3G Americas and 3Gpp
3G Americas Reiterates Need for Industry to Move Towards IPv6 Addressing
Industry trade body, 3G Americas has published a white paper which is outlining the needs in the Americas region to plan a transition to the internet addressing system, IPv6. The explosive growth in the wireless industry has created a requirement for always-available IP addresses. IPv4 addresses are rapidly diminishing and are likely to exhaust by 2012. more
Related Tags: 3g, voip, lte, mobile-broadband, long-term-evolution, ip-multimedia-subsystem
3G Americas and NGMN Alliance Initiate Cooperation on Next-Gen Networks
3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the GSM family of technologies, and the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance have announced a cooperation agreement between the two associations in support of the development and commercialization of next generation mobile broadband technologies and services. more
Related Tags: 3g, lte, cdma, hspa, mobile-broadband, gsm, ctia
Recommendations for Operators on QoS Interoperability and Policy Management
3G Americas has published a white paper that defines the challenges faced by operators today as demands intensify for converged services and service roaming. The paper outlines and recommends a policy-based mechanism for exchange service and network information such as QoS for providing end-to-end and real-time services. The policy management framework is a key underlying technology for roaming service and QoS control. more
Related Tags: 3gpp-release-7, interoperability
Growing Support for GSM/HSPA in 1700/2100 MHz Band
The trade group, 3G Americas has expressed confidence in the growing ecosystem of leading wireless technology manufacturers that will support UMTS/HSPA for the 1700/2100 MHz spectrum band. This band is known in the USA as the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) frequency band. Not only is this band important in the USA, but there is great potential for the continued allocation of 1700/2100 MHz spectrum throughout the Americas, with several auctions scheduled in 2008 in other countries in the region. more
Related Tags: mobile-wimax, advanced-wireless-services, aws, long-term-evolution, USA
GSM/UMTS Could Marginalize other Wide-Area Technologies
A report from 3G Americas is claiming that GSM/UMTS will "marginalize" other wide-area wireless technologies. The white paper provides an overview of the deployment status, technical capabilities and workings of current and future mobile wireless technologies, specifically, on EDGE, UMTS/WCDMA, HSPA, HSPA Evolution and LTE, with comparative information on alternative technologies including CDMA2000 EV-DO and WiMAX802.16e-2005. more
Related Tags: hsupa, hspa, lte, hspa-evolution, cdma2000, hspa+
UMTS deployments are well under way and starting later this year, the industry is poised to launch the next evolution of UMTS through 3GPP Release 5 enhancements like HSDPA and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). 3G Americas, a wireless industry group supporting the GSM family of technologies, has published a white-paper covering industry progress towards UMTS Release 6 (Rel'6) and its further long term evolution. more
Related Tags: ims, ip-multimedia-subsystem
3G Americas and the CDMA Development Group (CDG) have announced the conclusion of their collaboration in a series of joint technical workshops with leading GSM and CDMA operators and vendors to identify key elements necessary to ensure that Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) deployments will be interoperable within the Americas. The resulting document, Americas MMS Inter-carrier Implementation Guidelines, collaboratively drafted by the MMS working group, is available for all parties who may design, develop, manufacture, or provide MMS equipment or services. more
Related Tags: emc, cdma-development-group, cdg, 3gpp2
Mobile customers in Indianapolis will be the pacesetters for a potential captive market approaching 100 million customers throughout North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean, who will have the benefit of EDGE, including data speeds three times faster than a wired dial-up modem. Cingular Wireless, along with Nokia and Ericsson, set the pace for the next-generation of mobile services in Indianapolis by becoming the first of 33 operators in the Americas who will offer EDGE high-speed mobile data and Internet access services. more
Related Tags: pannon, dtac, telecom-italia-mobile, rogers-wireless, globe-telecom, at&t-wireless, nortel-networks, digi, oi, telcel, rogers, btc, dallas