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
- previous news
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UMTS Forum and 3G Americas Deliver Global Picture of GSM Evolution to
3G
December 11, 2003
The UMTS Forum and 3G Americas joined forces to provide a New York City
audience with a global picture of the evolution of GSM. This is the first
time that the UMTS Forum, the international body promoting the global
uptake of UMTS 3G mobile services and 3G Americas, the trade organization
promoting the seamless progression of GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS in the
Americas, have collaborated to give an update on the global advancement
of the world's wireless industry.
The two organizations delivered a "complementary" message to highlight
the significant advance of GSM, the fastest growing technology in the
Americas, and its evolution towards EDGE and UMTS/WCDMA next generation
wireless technologies for the delivery of high-speed wireless data services.
GSM has become a pivotal part of U.S. wireless operators' strategy and
GSM deployments in North America have grown tremendously over the last
18 months, following the migration of many operators from TDMA to GSM.
By deploying the GSM family of technologies the U.S. operators benefit
from being part a global opportunity, both now with GSM, and in the future
with EDGE and UMTS. GSM also enables the Americas' operators to benefit
from economies of scale, international roaming, and open standards. The
key message is that the GSM global footprint provides an evolutionary
path to EDGE and/or UMTS/WCDMA 3G that is expected to provide services
up to 85% of the world's next generation customers.
Chris Pearson, executive vice president of 3G Americas, detailed the
commitment to EDGE in the Western Hemisphere as both a stand-alone 3G
technology and as a complementary technology to UMTS: "To date 38 operators
in 24 countries of the Americas have plans to deploy EDGE to enable data-rich
services and applications -- representing some 110 million customers.
EDGE is available today on a nationwide basis in the U.S., and is also
available in Bermuda, Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico. Global scale has
been achieved with 25 additional operators in 18 countries outside the
Americas also planning EDGE deployment, and live EDGE networks currently
available in Finland, Hong Kong, and Thailand -- reaching a combined global
customer base today approaching a quarter of a billion customers."
The UMTS Forum highlighted the opportunities for the U.S. in 2004 when
the necessary spectrum and capital that will be opened up to deploy WCDMA
is available, and deployments can be made.
Jean-Pierre Bienaime, chairman of the UMTS Forum also highlighted the
current success of UMTS 3G in Europe and Asia: "Following deployments
in Japan and several European territories subscriber numbers have increased
dramatically. The latest figures show that there are about two million
UMTS users across the world. Customers using the technology are now taking
advantage of services such as online gaming, video telephony, personal
multimedia recording, streaming and audio and video downloads."
UMTS Forum and 3G Americas agree that although every market, and indeed
every operator is different, there are overwhelming reasons for operators
across the world to align with the GSM evolution family in any of its
different guises -- whether GPRS, EDGE or UMTS.
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