Articles tagged with: WCDMA and CDMA

Telecom New Zealand Turns Off its CDMA Network

As planned, Telecom New Zealand shut-down its older CDMA network at midnight last night. The company has been planning the closure ever since it deployed a wcdma network back in May 2009. more

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Telecom New Zealand Prepares to Shut-Down its CDMA Network

Telecom New Zealand is stepping up the publicity campaign as it prepares to shut-down its legacy CDMA network. Telecom announced over a year ago that the CDMA network would be closing on 31 July 2012. more

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Vodafone Offers National Roaming onto CDMA Network

Vodafone Czech Republic has inked a national roaming agreement with the CDMA network, MobilKom to enable its 3G data users to roam between the two networks. Vodafone is offering a dual-mode USB modem for laptops that will switch between wcdma and CDMA networks are required. more

Telecom New Zealand to Shut-Down its CDMA Network

Telecom New Zealand has announced plans to shut-down its CDMA network as it continues to migrate customers over to its recently deployed wcdma platform. The company said that CDMA roaming would cease at the end of this October, and the 3G network will close down at the end of this November. The 2G based CDMA network will close in 2012. more

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Chinese Believe WCDMA Phones Superior to CDMA and TD-SCDMA Models

Over half (58%) of Chinese customers believe that wcdma phones are the best 3G network in the country, followed by CDMA2000 (14.1%) and just 4.3% saying that TD-SCDMA handsets are the best. more

WCDMA equipment up 21% in 2Q, driven by 3G rollouts and device upgrades

Ericsson has increased its macrocell RAN equipment revenue in 2Q09 with a boost from China Unicom's W-CDMA deployments, retaining its top market share spot reports Infonetics Research. However, Huawei and ZTE also increased their RAN equipment revenue at the same time. more

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RIM Shows Off Dual-Mode CDMA/WCDMA BlackBerry

Research In Motion has launched a new handset - the BlackBerry Tour - a new 3G BlackBerry smartphone aimed at CDMA customers in North America who also roam overseas. It supports 3G EV-DO Rev. A networks in North America, as well as 3G UMTS/HSPA (2100Mhz) and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks abroad. more

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Shipment of Taiwan's Basic/Feature Phone Industry Exceeds Forecasts

According to research of the Taipei-based Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC), shipment volumes of the Taiwanese basic/feature phone industry in the first quarter of 2009 has been estimated at 10.21 million units. Even though shipment volume declined sequentially in the first quarter, it was still higher than the 9.42 million units originally forecast. more

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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

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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

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