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Articles tagged with: W CDMA
China Unicom Starts Testing 3G Network in 55 Cities
China Unicom says that it has started trials of its WCDMA network - covering 55 cities, the official Xinhua News Agency has reported. The network is expected to expand to 284 cities by September and a full commercial launch is due by the end of this year. more
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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, lte, china-unicom, edge, 3g, microwave, shanghai, alcatel-lucent-shanghai-bell, bell, China
Top-five handset OEM signs first Coolteq deal
Nujira, a developer of mobile phone platforms 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. more
Related Tags: coolteq, nujira, power-amplifiers, hsupa, cdma, ovi, tim, lte, wcdma, edge, 3g, 3gpp, seven, oem, bandwidth
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, wcdma, 3g, core-network, cdma, ovi, iden, mobile-broadband, radio-access-network, gsm, interoperability, China
China Defies Global Decline in Wireless Carrier Spending
China in 2009 is expected to defy the downturn in the global wireless infrastructure equipment business, as the nation's 3G network rollout drives world-beating double-digit growth in carrier capital spending, according to iSuppli. more
Related Tags: 3g, base-station, china-unicom, isuppli, itu, 3g-license, china-mobile, china-telecom, td-scdma, cdma, ovi, 3g-licenses, China
Caribbean & Latin America - CDMA Enters its "Sunset" Phase
The technology story in the Caribbean & Latin America (CALA) region is simple: most US based technologies are in full retreat, while the international GSM/w-cdma standards are proliferating. During the quarter, the number of customers connected to AMPS, TDMA and CDMA systems declined by 4.4m overall, bringing the number of disconnections so far this year to 19.9m, or 5.2% of the starting base. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, ict, rural, tim, cdma, iden, gsm, vivo
Smartphone sales buck the recession
A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. more
Related Tags: android, nokia, iphone, smartphone, samsung, wimax, motorola, eu, ict, smartphones, tim, cdma, hspa, ericsson, lg, infonetics-research, symbian, open-source, wimax,, gsm, operating-system
New Zealand telco, Digital Island says that it has signed a MVNO deal with Telecom New Zealand to add mobile phone services to its portfolio. The firm will carry out a two month pilot with existing customers beginning in April, followed by a full commercial service from July. more
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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, lte, cdma, hspa, ran, gsm, play, life
China Unicom Selects Alcatel-Lucent to Deploy 3G Networks in 14 Provinces
Alcatel-Lucent says that it has been selected by China Unicom to deploy 3G w-cdma networks in 14 Chinese provinces. Initial network deployments in the cities of Tianjin, Baoding, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Guiyang and Guilin are expected to be completed in May, 2009. more
Related Tags: 3g, base-station, china-unicom, wcdma, edge, alcatel-lucent, cdma, iden, shanghai, gsm, partner, alcatel-lucent-shanghai-bell, bell, China