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Articles tagged with: Asia Pacific and CDMA
Handset Shipments Expected to Drop 20% in 2009
Although cellphone shipments and subscription numbers have held up relatively well during the global recession thus far, the outlook is more tumultuous for the mobile industry, reports In-Stat. Both handset sales and subscriptions will take a hit, but In-Stat expects that subscriptions will weather the financial crisis better than handset shipments. more
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EU Moves Closer to Approving 3G at 900Mhz
The decision by the European Parliament to accept the amendment of the GSM Directive to allow UMTS (WCDMA-HSPA) technology to be deployed in the 900 MHz band has been welcomed by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). more
Related Tags: 3g, eu, wcdma, rural, mts, hspa, iden, mobile-broadband, european-union, gsm, gsa, umts
EDGE Continues to Dominate New Base Station Deployments in 2009
EDGE will dominate new base station deployments in 2009 with over 40% of new base station deployments, reports In-Stat. The slowdown in the global economy is having an effect on EDGE base station deployments as operators push out deployments. There will be a slight decline in new EDGE base station deployments from 2008 to 2009, resulting in 2008 being the zenith of EDGE deployments. more
Related Tags: 3g, base-station, eu, edge, td-scdma, hsupa, in-stat, sharp, base-stations, gsm
2008 Mobile Base Station Contracts Reach 550, Led by Nokia Siemens Networks
Total contracts awarded within the wireless industry for 2008 reached 550 as activity surged in Q4 according to the latest report from EJL Wireless Research. more
Related Tags: nokia, base-station, motorola, wcdma, edge, huawei, zte, alcatel-lucent, hspa, ericsson, nortel, nokia-siemens-networks, cdma2000, siemens, nokia-siemens
Q4 Mobile Base Station Contracts Surge With Nokia Siemens Networks on Top
EJL Wireless Research has published its fourth quarter 2008 base station contract analysis results. Despite the global financial crisis that has engulfed the wireless telecom industry, fourth quarter base station contracts totaled 182, increasing from 112 in Q3. more
Related Tags: nokia, base-station, eu, huawei, zte, hspa, ericsson, nokia-siemens-networks, 112, cdma2000, hspa+, siemens, nokia-siemens
European Mobile Subscriber Growth Falls to Sixth Successive Low
Quarterly net additions in the European mobile market moved to their highest level so far in 2008 in the third quarter, hitting 13.7m, after 9.8m and 11.0m in the first two quarters respectively. Proportionate growth followed suit, climbing to 1.8%, from 1.3% and 1.5% in the two prior periods. more
Fitch Revises Chunghwa Telecom's Outlook to Negative
Debt ratings agency, Fitch Ratings has affirmed Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom's (CHT) Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at 'AA', and revised the Outlook to Negative from Stable. Fitch has also affirmed CHT's National Long-term rating at 'AAA(twn)' with a Stable Outlook. more
Related Tags: fitch-ratings, capex, gsm, fitch, Taiwan
Andrew Wins Chinese CDMA Order
Antennas firm, Andrew has been named by China Telecom as an approved vendor for its CDMA wireless network. Andrew is providing base station antennas and HELIAX cable and accessories for a portion of the approximately 15,000 China Telecom CDMA network sites under construction through the remainder of this year. more
Related Tags: base-station, china-unicom, china-telecom, ben, andrew, China
Qualcomm Opens its First Test Center Outside the USA
Qualcomm has announced the opening of its first test development center outside of the USA - in Singapore. By having test centers in two opposite time zones - San Diego and Singapore - Qualcomm says that it will create an around-the-clock engineering support system that will significantly shorten the evaluation cycles for its new digital and radio frequency wireless technologies. more
Related Tags: semiconductor, qualcomm, Singapore
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: w-cdma, docomo, lg, softbank, ev-do