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Alcatel-Lucent Wins Chinese Contracts Worth $1.7 Billion

Alcatel-Lucent has inked two framework agreements valued US$1.7 billion in total with China Mobile and China Telecom, to provide network upgrades, integration and maintenance services in 2009. The agreements were secured through Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, Alcatel-Lucent's Chinese company.  more

Related Tags: china-mobile, china-telecom, cdma, td-scdma, alcatel-lucent, ovi, iden, china-unicom, edge, 3g, microwave, shanghai, alcatel-lucent-shanghai-bell, bell, unicom, China


Top-five handset OEM signs first Coolteq deal

..latforms 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. Commenting, Tim Haynes, Nuji more

Related Tags: coolteq, nujira, power-amplifiers, hsupa, cdma, ovi, tim, wcdma, edge, 3g, 3gpp, seven, oem, bandwidth


LTE Cannot Come Soon Enough for Some Operators

For some operators, lte cannot come soon enough, states the latest report from Analysys Mason, which details how wireless data traffic will grow tenfold in developed markets in the period to 2015. However, there are many roads to a data-optimised RAN and lte is only one component.  more

Related Tags: mobile-data, cdma, hspa, ran, gsm, play, life


NEC Deploys Highly Efficient Base Station Amplifier

NEC has announced the successful development of one of the world's most efficient transmitter amplifiers for mobile base stations, a 2.1GHz model that produces 45W of output power per 100W of power consumption.  more

Related Tags: sim, base-station, wimax, cdma, nec, base-stations, doherty


Nigeria's Second Best Quarter for Subscriber Growth

..f 18.8m. Glo's quarterly decline saw its customer base fall to 15.6m, which allowed Celtel to seize second place in the market. It added 1.10m in the quarter to finish on 15.9m, with market share of 28.5%. This represented a gain of 1.8pp yea more

Related Tags: mms, mtn, rcom, cdma, vodacom, gsm, celtel, ncc, visafone, Nigeria


Network Infrastructure Spending Positions Carriers for 4G Services But Proves Competitive for Vendors

2008 is delivering mixed results for mobile infrastructure vendors such as Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, and Alcatel-Lucent.  more

Related Tags: orange, base-station, iphone, samsung, wimax, apple, apple, abi-research, alcatel-lucent, cdma, vodafone, edge, mobile-internet, base-stations, radio-access-network, cdma2000, siemens, hsdpa


NEC Wins "Super 3G" Contract in Japan

Japan's NTT DoCoMo has contracted with NEC to provide core network EPC (Evolved Packet Core) systems that support NTT DoCoMo's "Super 3G" next generation mobile phone networks. Super3G is a standard system and an advanced version of the W-CDMA-extended technologies HSDPA and HSUPA, which achieves data transmission speeds of 100Mbps or more in downlink and 50Mbps or more in uplink access.  more

Related Tags: base-station, core-network, docomo, hsupa, nec, ims, wlan, hsdpa, handover, uplink, downlink, Japan


Wireless Broadband to Exceed Two Billion Customers by 2015

Wireless broadband services will create significant opportunities for revenue growth, and cellular technologies will take the largest share, according to the latest report from Analysys Mason. Globally, 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers will generate US$784 billion in service revenue by 2015. This revenue increase of about 2400% will be underpinned by continued developments in wireless technologies, improvements in devices and more flexible pricing options.  more

Related Tags: hspa, wimax,, hspa+, wireless-broadband


Mobile Capex Finally Shifts to 3G Technologies

Mobile network operators are finally shifting their infrastructure capital spending away from GSM/EDGE technologies and toward W-CDMA and HSPA, with carriers in Western Europe leading the 3G charge, according to a new report from Heavy Reading.  more

Related Tags: mobile-wimax, huawei, capex, hspa, nortel, motorola, 3gpp


Global GSM Subscriber Growth Rate to Slow in 2008

ABI Research is forecasting that global GSM subscriber growth to slow from a year-on-year rate of over 22% in 2006/07 to 14% in 2008/09, mainly due to the increased migration of subscribers to UMTS 3G technologies. UMTS (including HSDPA) experienced a nearly 83% year-on-year growth rate in 2006/07. ABI Research expects global GSM subscriber numbers to show a negative growth rate starting in 2013, as by then GSM will become less attractive compared to the cheaper 3G services; there will also be losses due to the proliferation of mobile WiMAX and 4G networks.  more

Related Tags: mobile-wimax, abi-research, mts, iden, edge, cdma2000, umts, hsdpa


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