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Articles tagged with: Asia Pacific and WCDMA
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, rural, mts, cdma, hspa, iden, mobile-broadband, european-union, gsm, gsa, umts
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, edge, huawei, zte, alcatel-lucent, cdma, hspa, ericsson, nortel, nokia-siemens-networks, cdma2000, siemens, nokia-siemens
Mobile Data Revenues to Exceed $200 Billion in 2008
Revenues from mobile data services are set to exceed US$200 billion this year for the first time, according to data sourced from Informa Telecoms & Media. Total mobile data revenues were approximately US$157 billion in 2007. more
Related Tags: sms, mobile-data, china-mobile, docomo, hspa, hsdpa, fixed-wireless, ev-do
Increasing Deployment of UMT at 900Mhz
The pace of commercialisation of UMTS 900 systems has quickened, according to a new Information Paper published by GSA, the Global mobile Suppliers Association. The report notes that for the same service offering and coverage, the number of base station sites in the 900 MHz band can be reduced by 60% compared to that needed for 2100 MHz, and reduce rollout time. more
Related Tags: european-commission, mts, hspa, usb-modem, 3, gsa, usb-modems, umts, hsdpa
Wireless Industry Shipped Over One Million BTS Units in 2007
The global base station market grew by 58.5% in units in 2007, according to the latest report from EJL Wireless Research. "The GSM/EDGE base station market again outpaced our projections from a year ago while WCDMA shipments finally hit mainstream with 114.4% growth," says founder and President, Earl Lum. more
Related Tags: driving, zte, alcatel-lucent, lte, bts, oem, siemens
Ericsson Wins Indonesian Softswitch Contract
Ericsson has been chosen by Indonesian operator Telkomsel) for its Mobile Softswitch Solution (MSS), including the new MSC Server Blade Cluster. The solution will provide a common core network platform for both GSM and WCDMA technology and boost Telkomsel's network capacity, performance and coverage. more
Related Tags: core-network, telkomsel, Indonesia
UK Operators Sharing 3G Spectrum for Mobile TV Trials
Orange and T-Mobile UK have announced they intend to jointly pilot a new mobile TV and multimedia broadcast service in London using NextWave Wireless' 3G MBMS based TDtv solution. The pilot, scheduled for the second half of 2008, is designed to demonstrate how the cost of providing mobile TV services can be significantly reduced when mobile operators share widely-available unpaired 3G spectrum and a standards-based TDtv broadcast network. more
Related Tags: orange, mobile-tv, 3g-license, mts, t-mobile-uk, palm, 3gpp, london, packetvideo, nextwave-wireless, 3g-licenses, umts, chipset, tdd, UK
Asia Pacific Operators in Q3 '07: CDMA staging a revival?
The three months ended September 30th saw a record number of new connections in the Asia Pacific region. Overall, nearly 85 million new customers were connected which is very nearly as many as Germany, Europe's largest economy, has added in the 22 years since mobile service started. The vast majority of these chose to adopt either GSM or WCDMA technology, these two accounting for 66.1m and 9.4m of the total respectively. more
Related Tags: china-mobile, telekom-malaysia, telenor, telenor-pakistan, bsnl, telkomsel, aircel, viettel, satelindo, excelcomindo, fixed-wireless, orascom
Huawei Tops Q4 2007 Base Station Sales - Report
EJL Wireless Research announces its fourth quarter 2007 base station contract analysis results and says that Huawei took the top spot with 34% of total contracts awarded. There were in total.53 contracts during the quarter, rebounding from Q3, but unlike in Q3, there were no announced billion dollar contracts. more
Related Tags: huawei, alcatel-lucent, nokia-siemens-networks, oem