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Articles tagged with: Orange and Alcatel Lucent
Standards Based Solution for Voice and SMS Services Over LTE Announced
A gang of telecoms companies have jointly defined the preferred way to ensure the smooth introduction and delivery of voice and SMS services on Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks worldwide. The companies involved are AT&T, orange, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. more
Related Tags: sms, lte, at&t, -telefonica, teliasonera, verizon, vodafone, ericsson, nokia--siemens-networks, nokia, samsung, sony-ericsson, broadband, interoperability
Orange Uganda Hands Network Management to Alcatel-Lucent
orange Uganda has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build, operate and manage the orange Uganda mobile network, by providing technical support, repair, field maintenance and program management services. more
Related Tags: Uganda
Alcatel-Lucent's IN solution enables Israeli convergent services
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Related Tags: intelligent-network, partner-communications, partner, billing, Israel
Managed Services for Network Equipment OEMs to Reach $6.4 Billion in 2009
Managed services for mobile networks returned about $19 billion revenue in 2008, ($5.8 billion for network services and $13.4 billion for IT-related services.) Europe led managed services adoption: Tier One operators there face stiff competition, so they have turned to managed services to improve their margins. According to a new study from ABI Research, that $19 billion figure represents only a small part of the potential addressable market. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, nokia, eu, ibm, abi-research, verizon-wireless, ericsson, verizon
Rich Communication Suite Initiative Gains Momentum
The GSMA has reported significant progress in the Rich Communication Suite (RCS) Initiative, a service providing enriched communication capabilities such as in-call multimedia sharing, conversational messaging and presence-enhanced contact management, all accessible through a user's mobile phone contact list. The initiative has generated considerable momentum across a number of fronts since the GSMA brought RCS into its work programme in September 2008, including the delivery of the RCS Release 1 specification, the addition of new programme participants and the successful completion of interoperability tests. more
Related Tags: nokia, sim, voip, rsa, personal, sfr, instant-messaging, 3, ims, siemens, gsma, rich-communication-suite, nokia-siemens, presence, testing, interoperability, rcs
FMC phones hit $7.6B in 2Q08; FMC network elements on target to grow 82% in 2008
Market research firm Infonetics Research reports that sales of dual mode cellular/WiFi phones, including dual service and UMA and IMS seamless FMC client phones, hit US $7.6 billion in 2Q08 and are expected to be up 16% for the year, indicating healthy growth for converged cellular/WiFi services in both enterprise and consumer market segments. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, samsung, motorola, t-mobile-usa, ericsson, infonetics-research, ims, fmc, rogers
France Telecom Hits it Off with Ugandan Discussions
France Telecom has taken over the national GSM license held by Hits Telecom Uganda and said that it plans to launch a new joint venture company operating under the orange brand in the coming months. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, wimax, mtn, reliance-communications, zain, cdma, reliance, landline, gsm-license, telkom, uganda-communications-commission, i-tel, Uganda
2008 is delivering mixed results for mobile infrastructure vendors such as Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, and Alcatel-Lucent. more
Related Tags: base-station, iphone, samsung, wimax, w-cdma, apple, apple, abi-research, cdma, lte, vodafone, edge, mobile-internet, base-stations, radio-access-network, cdma2000, siemens, hsdpa
Beyond 3G - Communications Services of the Future
EuropeÃ's telecommunications industry became the world leader in the 1990s. Now European researchers are working to maintain that lead by developing an innovative services platform for 'Beyond 3GÃ' communications. more
Related Tags: roaming, bluetooth, core-network, siemens, billing, laptop, spice
Europe Telecom Giants Call the Shots Again as M&A Picks Up
As the global financial crisis nears its one-year anniversary, Europe's top telecom operators are rediscovering an appetite for deals and preparing to pounce on vulnerable rivals, armed with solid balance sheets and needled by a rising threat from newcomers like Google and Apple. more
Related Tags: google, deutsche-telekom, juniper-research, megafon, teliasonera, telenor, sistema, telefonica, kpn, gartner, france-telecom, comstar, turkcell, global-crossing, ote, neuf-cegetel, hutchison, essar, chief-financial-officer, level-3, vodafone-group, hutchison-essar