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Articles tagged with: One Network
Somaliland to get a GSM network
Tecore Wireless Systems says that it received an order from Telsom Mobile for a GSM network deployment in Somaliland. This network, operating as Telsom Somaliland and serving the capital Hargeysa and surrounding cities, is the first wireless network connecting Somalia and Somaliland under one network operator, facilitating cross-border commerce as well as regional and international roaming. Tecore, in partnership with AirNet Communications Corporation, previously installed its AirCore Mobile Switching Center (MSC) at Telsom Mobile now providing the wireless service to subscribers in Mogadishu, Somalia. The new turn-key network deployment includes the AirCore MSC with integrated revenue-generating features, such as Roaming, Prepaid, Short Message Service Center (SMSC) and voicemail, as well as AirNet AdaptaCell Broadband Software-Defined Base Stations. more
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The UK MVNO, Virgin Mobile is to launch a new tariff of just 3p per SMS message, when sent from one Virgin Mobile customer to another Virgin Mobile customer within the UK. Other networks typically charge 10p per message. The move is likely to spark a price war in the mobile telecommunications industry, by hugely undercutting many of its rivals' tariffs and by creating a strong point of difference for both existing and new customers. The aggressive price cuts will be supported by the biggest ever advertising campaign in the company's history. more
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Metatron secures Qualcomm 3G license
Metatron Technologies has obtained a Qualcomm WCDMA serial interface license. The agreement enables Metatron Technologies to manufacture and sell wireless network testing and optimization solutions for WCDMA (UMTS) based wireless networks. The license furthers Metatron Technologies' efforts to build single platform solutions that can readily be configured for multiple wireless technologies. Initially, this license will enable the DimensionZ network optimization software platform to easily interface with phones that utilize Qualcomm's WCDMA (UMTS) chipset. Manufacturers using this chipset today in their WCDMA phones include Qualcomm (in their UMTS test UE), Sanyo, Samsung, and LG Electronics. more
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802.11 to 3G call handover achieved
Lucent Technologies has demonstrated the successful seamless handoff of a wireless data call from a "WiFi" or wireless local area network (WLAN) to a UMTS network, enabling mobile laptop users to browse the Internet while roaming between the two network types with no interruption in the session. more
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UK networks agree to share stolen handset database
The UK's Mobile Phone Industry Crime Action Forum (Micaf) has secured an agreement with all four of the UK's cellular networks to share their databases of blacklisted IMEI's. The move will ensure that a handset registered with one network cannot then be stolen and used on another UK network. Naturally, the move does not prevent the handsets being exported to another country and used there. The sharing of information is expected to start within the next six weeks. The GSM networks in Italy and France also have plans to share their databases of blacklisted handsets. more
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SMS made easier for corporate users
The Dublin based ANAM Wireless Internet Solutions has launched two SMS based products that are aimed at making it easier for corporate users to connect to the cellular networks SMS server. more
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The American telecoms regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has completed its re-examination of the spectrum cap that limits the amount of spectrum any one network can own in a particular market, and as widely expected as lifted the spectrum cap following a 3 to 1 vote in favour. more
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UK number portability speeded up
The four UK GSM networks have decided to speed up the process for porting a mobile phone number from one network to another. Currently, mobile number portability takes about 25 days in the UK. This delay was introduced to allow the existing carrier 15 days to contact the customer and offer an incentive to stay with the existing carrier and not switch to a competitor. Henceforth, the time period has been reduced to just 7 days, and customers will also now be able to specify which day, after the 7 day delay, that they want the number to be ported to the new network. Seven days is still far longer than the three hours being offered in Australia. The UK became the first country in the world to offer mobile number portability on the 1st January 1999, and since then nearly one million customers have switched networks." more
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Duo form strategic relationship to deliver global "Cross Network" SMS services"
BMD wireless, a provider of core network wireless software solutions has signed an OEM agreement with CMG Wireless Data Solutions that will combine BMD's messaging products with CMG's Short Message Service Centre. BMD has commercially developed the world's first core network platform that enables any mobile user from any GSM network in the world to reach an application. The technology routes short messages originated by a mobile user from one network to the Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) of another network where the destination application is connected. "BMD's proven technology is a key driver to rapidly accelerate SMS volume growth by enabling cross network connectivity to applications. We believe that mobile originated text messaging to interactive applications and services in the consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer market will be a major catalyst for new growth in the SMS market." said Mr. Arie Kuijt, Vice President Mobile Messaging of CMG Wireless Data Solutions." more
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Israel's 3G auction may be canceled
Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper has reported that the planned 3G auction in Israel could be delayed indefinitely. It is also reported in several local media that an expected fourth 2G cellular license will not be offered either. There has been pressure from the thee existing networks, saying that the market can not support four companies, and also there are worries that at least one network is running short of spectrum. " more
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