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Articles tagged with: W CDMA and Iden
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, lte, china-unicom, edge, 3g, microwave, shanghai, alcatel-lucent-shanghai-bell, bell, China
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, mobile-broadband, radio-access-network, gsm, interoperability, 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, gsm, vivo
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, shanghai, gsm, partner, alcatel-lucent-shanghai-bell, bell, China
Caribbean & LatAm - GSM total increases 40%, as CDMA declines 21.6%
The mobile market in the Caribbean & Latin America further polarised towards GSM technology in Q2 2008, as the total number of customers using the technology and its 3G derivative w-cdma increased by 6.9% to almost 360m. At the end of June 2008, the GSM/w-cdma base made up 86.3% of the regional total, up from 84.6% three months earlier. more
North America - Slowest Ever Annual Growth, but 3G Development is Positive
The total number of mobile connections in North America rose to 277.90m at the end of Q1 08, from 257.60m a year earlier. The penetration rate saw a 5.3pp gain to 82.5%. Obviously this figure is close to the 84.9% penetration rate in the USA, the region's largest market by some distance with 92.7% of North America's mobile customers, although it is dragged down by the low Canadian rate of just 60.5%. more
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3G Subscribers in Mid-East & Africa Pass 20 Million Mark
Third generation mobile technologies accounted for their highest ever share of net additions in Middle East & Africa in Q4 2007 with 9.8% of the total - up very slightly on the 9.7% registered in Q3 2007. The trend in MEA so far shows that 3G additions in the fourth quarter of the year are generally weaker as a proportion of the total, following the pattern established in Europe. This may be due to the fact that fourth quarter sales tend to be driven by the Christmas market (and to some extent the Ramadan market, as some of the Ramadan period tends to fall in October) which generally involves the sale of lower-value cards and handsets, often as gifts. more
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, lte, edge, cdma2000, umts, hsdpa
iDEN's continuing problems opens the door for W-CDMA
The recent news from Sprint Nextel, that it expects to lose a further million customers or more from its iDEN base in both the March and June quarters casts further doubts about the future of that technology. All seemed well in the first few quarters after the merger of Sprint with Nextel, with healthy, if not exceptional levels of growth. more
Related Tags: sprint-nextel, verizon-wireless, verizon, lte, sprint, USA
Global W-CDMA base doubles as CDMA decline gathers pace
The dominance of the GSM family of technologies continued to increase in the year ended 30th September 2007 as a 25.9% increase in the number of 2G GSM customers was boosted by a 102.1% increase in the w-cdma base. Overall the increase amounted to 28.8%, exceeding the global total of 24.2% and taking the proportion of the global customer base accounted for by the two technologies to 86.0% from 82.9% a year earlier. more
Related Tags: sprint-nextel, verizon-wireless, lte, telstra, telus, kddi, sprint, nextel, vivo