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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Vivendi withdraw from Spain's 3G consortium
July 5, 2003
The French-American media colossal, Vivendi Universal, will withdraw
from the consortium Xfera in Spain. The group will sell all of its 26.3%
shares in the 3G license holding company.
Although Xfera possesses a UMTS 3G license in Spain, the telecom company
never succeeded in taking up the business activity because of high rollout
costs on an untested 3G business model.
Vivendi had hoped to deliver exclusive multimedia content on the high-speed
network once built. But due to the low user take-up rates experienced
by recent 3G start-ups, the company had second thoughts on embracing the
3G business.
3G start-ups, Hutchison 3G and NTT DoCoMo, encountered unreliable connections,
short battery life, poor voice quality and handoff problems between 2G/3G
radio base stations. These are some of the problems still holding back
operators from around the world on committing to commercial 3G launches.
The company has only recently started discussion with Spanish infrastructure
constructor Abertis to roll out its UMTS network, which must be operation
by the end of 2004 while other Spanish rivals have already started network
constructions.
The mobile operator has also been in negotiations with the Ministry of
Science and Technology to limit initial construction to Madrid and Barcelona.
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