Articles tagged with: Mobile Broadband and CDMA

Mongolia Gets HSPA Network Upgrade

Mongolian operator MobiCom has launched a HSPA upgrade, with the network supplied by Ericsson. The launch enables MobiCom to introduce mobile broadband services to its subscribers across Mongolia, starting in the capital Ulaanbaatar where about 40 percent of the country's 3 million inhabitants live.  more

Related Tags: mobicom, hspa, ericsson, wcdma, 3g, 3, gsm, partner, ulaanbaatar, Mongolia


Motorola Wins Chinese 3G Contract

Motorola says that it has won a W-CDMA contract with China Unicom for an undisclosed amount. Under the contract, Motorola will provide China Unicom with W-CDMA radio access network equipment, packet switched core network (PS core), and 2G/3G interoperability functions that will enable the integration of China Unicom's GSM and W-CDMA networks.  more

Related Tags: china-unicom, motorola, w-cdma, wcdma, 3g, , core-network, ovi, iden, radio-access-network, gsm, interoperability, unicom, China


Ericsson Wins 4-Year 3G Upgrade Contract in Turkey

Turkish operator Avea has signed a four year contract with Ericsson for a WCDMA/HSPA upgrade. Under the agreement, Ericsson will be one of the main suppliers and will integrate and deploy WCDMA/HSPA radio access and packet core networks, as well as a complete mobile-backhaul solution based on microwave transmission and optical transport.  more

Related Tags: avea, wcdma, tim, hspa, ericsson, microwave, gsm, packet-core, Turkey


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: asia-pacific, 3g, eu, wcdma, rural, mts, hspa, iden, european-union, gsm, gsa, umts, union, wave, global-mobile, parliament, european-parliament


Femtocells Deliver 5-Times Speed of Macro Network in Operator Trials

Femtocell developer, Airvana has published results of performance tests of the company's HubBub CDMA femtocell which it says demonstrated dramatic improvements for indoor 3G coverage and performance when compared with using the existing macro-cellular network alone. Based on the results of side-by-side testing, a typical HubBub user can expect to achieve broadband data rates throughout their house of approximately five times that of the existing wireless macro network.  more

Related Tags: 3g, sim, mobile-data, rural, iden, femtocell, femtocells, indoor-coverage, ctia, testing, airvana, uplink, indoor, radio-frequency, 3g-coverage


Recession isn't holding back mobile broadband subscribers

Market research firm Infonetics Research released the fourth quarter (4Q08) edition of its Mobile Broadband Cards, Routers, Services, and Subscribers report last week. The report found that worldwide, the number of mobile broadband subscribers (including W- CDMA/HSPA and CDMA2000/EV-DO) jumped 125% in 2008 over 2007, hitting 210.5 million, and are expected to top 1 billion by 2013.  more

Related Tags: sony-ericsson, wimax, huawei, hspa, ericsson, infonetics-research, sony, wimax,, ev-do


HSPA Drives Mobile Infrastructure Market Growth in 2008

According to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the worldwide total mobile infrastructure market revenue grew 5 percent in 2008, driven by the nearly doubling and quadrupling of revenue of the WCDMA and WiMAX markets, respectively.  more

Related Tags: 3g, base-station, smartphone, wimax, wcdma, smartphones, driving, lte, hspa, dell, gsm, true, 2g


BSNL Launches 3G Services in 11 Cities

Ericsson has issued an update on its Sept 2007 contract win from India's BSNL - and says it achieved the country's biggest simultaneous launch of 3G services to date, across 11 major cities. As part of its roll-out strategy, BSNL plans to launch 3G services using WCDMA/HSPA technology across more than 700 cities in the first phase.  more

Related Tags: 3g, sim, mobile-tv, wcdma, hspa, ericsson, bsnl, partner, music, target, 3g-network, video-on-demand, India


Qualcomm Chipset Supports Simultaneous Voice and Data Usage

Qualcomm has introduced the industry's first chipset solution for Smartphones supporting CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. B and Simultaneous Voice-Data Operation (SV-DO), as well as multi-carrier HSPA+ and LTE. The MSM8960 chipset is scheduled to sample in mid-2010.  more

Related Tags: 3g, sim, smartphone, qualcomm, bluetooth, smartphones, gps, lte, mts, hspa, cdma2000, hspa+, chipsets, umts, 1xev-do, chipset, ev-do, radio-frequency, fm-radio


Sony to Embed Qualcomm's Gobi Platform in Laptop Computers

Sony says that it has selected Qualcomm's Gobi mobile Internet technology for use in its VAIO notebook PC lines. Sony is the first notebook manufacturer to make Gobi technology a standard feature in several of its PC models.  more

Related Tags: wi-fi, 3g, qualcomm, gps, sony, mobile-internet, notebook, gobi


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