Articles tagged with: 3G Americas and Hspa
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, mobile-broadband, 3gpp, gsm, ctia
Mobile Phone Subscribers Pass 4 Billion Mark
GSM focused trade body, 3G Americas says that a historic milestone was achieved for the wireless industry in December 2008 with 4 billion connections to mobile devices worldwide. more
Related Tags: lte, core-network, mts, cdma, mobile-broadband, compete, telstra, gsm, hspa+, bandwidth
3G Americas Publishes Research Report on Trust and Security in Mobile Applications
3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the GSM family of technologies has published a research report which uncovers the issues for consumers and application providers about attempts to compromise services and applications through such trust and security issues as identity theft, phishing and pharming. more
Related Tags: gemalto, sms, nfc, rsa, edge, uicc
Over One Million New GSM Subscriptions a Day Worldwide
3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association is reporting that in the year ending June 30, 2008, GSM/HSPA networks added over 115 million subscriptions in the Americas region with a market share of 67%. According to industry research firm, Informa Telecoms & Media, global GSM/HSPA wireless subscriptions as of June 30, 2008 totaled 3.2 billion adding more than a million new subscriptions for the GSM family of technologies per day worldwide. more
Related Tags: social-networking, mts, cdma, hsdpa
GSM Family Subscriptions Reach 3 Billion Worldwide
The trade body, 3G Americas has announced that the world now has 3 billion mobile phone users based on the GSM family (inc UMTS), based upon research and projections by Informa Telecoms and Media. Today, 88% of the world's 3.5 billion mobile wireless subscriptions are to the GSM family of technologies. more
Related Tags: mts, landline, telcel, rogers, hsdpa
Forecast: Half a Billion GSM/UMTS Subscriptions in the Americas by Year End
Trade group, 3G Americas says that by the end of 2008, there will be more than half a billion mobile wireless subscriptions to the GSM technology family including EDGE and UMTS/HSPA in the Americas, according to forecasts by Informa Telecoms & Media. Tremendous growth was posted in the year 2007, as the GSM family of technologies once again grew its market share as the number one mobile wireless technology in the Western Hemisphere, with a 64% regional share of market. more
Related Tags: t-mobile-usa, t-mobile-usa, mts, hsupa, edge, rogers
GSM Market Share Grows to 62% in Western Hemisphere
3G Americas, an organization representing GSM technology in the Americas, has announced that the GSM technology family's market share in the Western Hemisphere -- North America, Central and South America, and the Caribbean -- has grown nine percentage points in the past twelve months, to 62%, up from 53% at the end of third quarter 2006. The GSM/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA deployment strategy is gaining global traction, with nearly 150 joint EDGE/UMTS networks commercially available. 3G Americas also reports almost 200 commercial UMTS networks, 150 of which are enhanced by HSDPA, and most UMTS operators are expected to upgrade network services with HSPA (HSDPA+HSUPA). more
Related Tags: mobile-wimax, td-scdma, hsupa, edge, 1xev-do, ev-do
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, lte, 3gpp, hspa-evolution, cdma2000, hspa+
