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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EC approves network sharing
July 14, 2003
Reuters new reported that The European Commission will this week approve
a plan by mobile phone operators mm02 and T-Mobile to share networks for
3G mobile phones in Germany, an EU source said on Monday.
Last September, The EC has put forward a paper that details the conditions
under which 3G rollouts should take place across the region.
The EC last year proposed that operators' 3G licensing conditions should
not be changed, but instead that member states could sanction operators
to share infrastructure and allow them to trade spectrum. The proposal
stated that whatever happens national regulators should ensure a predictable
environment with legal certainty for operators.
The commission is, however, willing to investigate solutions with member
states regarding the granting of permission to share infrastructure. "In
the short term, public authorities should facilitate the deployment of
networks by harmonising rules for the authorisation of base stations and
speeding up procedures for the acquisition of sites for base stations,"
the EC said.
To the press, The EC said it had granted the exemption for mm02 and T-Mobile
to share networks because it believed national roaming could lead to quicker
and better 3G coverage of areas that are generally seen as providing less
economic return to operators.
In the first ever 3G network sharing agreement in mid-2002, the telecoms
regulator in the Netherlands, OPTA, confirmed the country's five license
holders could enter full network sharing agreements. Dutchtone, backed
by Orange, and 3G Blue, backed by Ben and T-Mobile, have agreed to operate
on a joint network in order to keep their rollout costs to a minimum.
Source told 3Newsroom.com that Hutchison Whampoa may be interested in
buying mmO2 if spectrum trading was allowed in Germany. Hutchison, a former
powerhouse in Germany, do not have a 3G license in the country and if
it acquires mm02, the smallest 3G license holder in Germany, could mean
a return of the giant.
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