Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
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Vodafone to buy 3G capacity from Hutchison
December 9, 2002
Vodafone is willing to buy rival Hutchison's A$3bn (£1.08bn) 3G
mobile network to secure its place as a leading operator in Australia's
mobile phone market.
The operator ditched plans to build a 3G network of its own and
indicated it would share network with other operators. When Telstra
launched the country's first fully functional 3G network last Monday,
Vodafone Australia managing director Grahame Maher said Vodafone
would not share networks with Telstra because he considers Telstra's
cdma2000 network as 2.5G and not 3G.
Mr Maher said since Hutchison is a global competitor to Vodafone
it would make more sense to purchase Hutchison's new network. Vodafone
is looking either to buy capacity on the network, or buy the network
outright.
In the short term, Vodafone would buy capacity from Hutchison,
said Maher and added, "Then, in the longer term, we would consider
buying the network if it became available. We could do an alliance,
but for us, Hutchison is a competitor worldwide so it'd be harder
for us to have a partnership with them."
Mr Maher also said Vodafone still believed its $200 million 3G
license was valuable, but thinks the applications aren't there and
the market in Australia is not ready yet.
Australian mobile users tend to stay with their existing operators
even when new network is launched and analysts said Hutchison would
do well to form some sort of partnership with Vodafone. This would
see Vodafone's GSM customers migrate to Hutchison's 3G network.
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3G Motorola A920
