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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Next generation phones are not fit to use
June 30, 2003
A number of European mobile phone operators have branded 3G handsets
unfit for the market because they are unreliable, buggy, expensive and
offer limited services.
Phone operators said they thought existing 3G handsets were unfit for
sale to customers and that none of them could adequately perform all the
functions they were intended for.
Some complained of buggy handset software, while others said no handset
could deliver all the features promised by 3G, such as high-speed internet
access, clear voice services, video telephony and smooth handover between
mobile cells.
Hakan Dahlstrom, head of mobile networks for Sweden at TeliaSonera, said,
"Some handsets are good at handovers, like Motorola. Others are good at
internet packet data switching, but at the moment no single handset is
good at everything."
The new Nokia 6650, in particular, came under fire. "We had 10 Nokia
6650s, but they had to be sent back for software upgrades," said Rudi
Westerveld, assistant professor at the Technical University of Delft,
who is conducting application tests with T-Mobile.
Michael Thelander, an analyst with Deutsche Bank, said, "I would be surprised
if we see the Nokia 6650 in the shops."
A spokesman for Nokia said, "It is completely normal for phones to be
returned to us for upgrades in the development stage."
Analyst Jeremy Green of Ovum said, "3G is not ready. It is more complicated
than previous networking technologies and no one really knows what a 3G
phone needs to do. There is no killer app that can be met with 3G that
cannot be done with existing technologies."
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3G Motorola A920
