Articles tagged with: 3G and 3Gpp

3GPP Mobile Broadband Subscriptions Now Exceed 100 Million in Western Hemisphere

4G Americas - a wireless industry trade association - has announced that more than 100 million mobile broadband customers in the Americas region are using 3gPP technology. With an annualized growth rate of 77 percent for the Western Hemisphere, including 158 percent annual growth in Latin America and 55 percent in the U.S. and Canada, the regional growth for 3gPP mobile broadband far exceeds the 40 percent growth of 3gPP mobile broadband worldwide at the 12 months ending September 2010 (subscriber data according to Informa Telecoms & Media WCIS). more

Related Tags: hspa, lte, lte-advanced, wireless, imt-advanced, caribbean, 2g

New Technology Could Double 3G Network Voice Call Capacity

Finnish operator Elisa and Nokia Siemens Networks have demonstrated a new technology that allows operators to increase voice capacity of their 3g networks, potentially up to double the baseline capacity. The trial call was conducted in Elisa's live 3g network using R&D prototype devices supplied by Nokia. In technical terms the demonstration was of the world's first circuit switched call over a high speed packet access network (CSoHSPA). more

Top-five handset OEM signs first Coolteq deal

Nujira, a developer of mobile phone platforms says that it has signed a deal with an unnamed handset manufacturer to provide its Coolteq-l handset development platform. The unnamed customer is reported to be one of the world's top five handset makers. more

Related Tags: coolteq, nujira, power-amplifiers, hsupa, cdma, ovi, tim, lte, w-cdma, wcdma, edge, seven, oem, bandwidth

World's First Femtocell Standard Published by 3GPP

Three trade bodies, The Femto Forum, 3gPP and the Broadband Forum have jointly announced that the world's first femtocell standard has been officially published by 3gPP, paving the way for interoperability between different vendors' access points and femto gateways. The new standard, which forms part of 3gPP's Release 8, and interdependent with Broadband Forum extensions to its Technical Report-069 (TR-069), has been completed in just 12 months following cooperation between the three groups. more

Related Tags: sim, privacy, edge, lte, core-network, mts, ovi, femtocell, femto-forum, femtocells, umts, interoperability

Voice over LTE Initiative Launched

A group of leaders in the wireless industry comprised of Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei, Kineto Wireless, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nortel, Samsung, Starent Networks, T-Mobile and ZTE have announced a joint effort, referred to as the Voice over LTE via Generic Access (VoLGA) Forum. The joint effort aims to define a set of specifications within the forum for enabling delivery of voice services over LTE access networks based on the current 3gPP Generic Access Network (GAN) standard. more

3G Americas Reiterates Need for Industry to Move Towards IPv6 Addressing

..world. The 3G Americas white paper, IPv6 Transition Considerations for LTE and Evolved Packet Core, and the previous March 2008 report, Transition to IPv6, both were written collaboratively by members of 3G Americas more

Actix unveils Self-Optimizing Network solution for LTE networks

Actix says that it plans to deliver the world's first commercial Self-Optimizing Network (SON) system for LTE networks during 2009. SON virtually eliminates human involvement for network planning and optimization and is a central element of the vision advocated by both the 3gPP and the Next Generation Mobile Networks Group, enabling a new way of managing the performance and maintenance of 4G radio access networks. more

Nortel Completes LTE-TDD Wireless Demo in China

Nortel says that it has successfully completed the first end-to-end video streaming session using a Time Division Duplex (TDD)-based LTE network, working with commercial grade LTE Base Station and device prototypes in China. This is an important milestone in the development of next generation wireless services for TD-SCDMA mobile network deployments in China, as well as advancing the deployment of LTE for service providers using TDD spectrum. more

Related Tags: base-station, wcdma, driving, lte, china-mobile, td-scdma, cdma, hspa, mobile-broadband, nortel, tdd, beijing, enodeb, true, China

Nokia Siemens Networks gives voice to LTE

With a simple upgrade to their circuit switched core network, over 220 of Nokia Siemens Networks' customer operators can smoothly start offering Voice over LTE much sooner than they thought. Nokia Siemens Networks says that they have developed a smart approach for providing voice service over LTE networks that operators can implement with simple and cost-effective software and hardware upgrades to their existing 3gPP circuit-switch core network. more

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: lte, cdma, hspa, mobile-broadband, 3g-americas, gsm, ctia, globe

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