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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Racal Instruments Has Best Track Record for EGPRS Test Cases
May 8, 2003
Racal Instruments has now delivered 145 test cases to a major mobile
manufacturer and now has 98% of the entire EGPRS 3GPP test case list delivered,
debugged and verified against the most advanced EGPRS mobile phones in
development.
There have been some concerns of late within the industry regarding the
quality of early validation processes of new wireless features such as
EGPRS and 3G. Some suppliers of test equipment, in a bid to have the most
test cases validated by the GCF and PTCRB, have supplied test cases which
over time have not been up to standard and have had to be withdrawn, culminating
in loss of confidence by users.
In order to keep test case withdrawal to a minimum Racal Instruments
has debugged and verified its deliverables using industry mobile terminals
and has applied a more conservative rate of validation submissions to
GCF/PTCRB of EGPRS test cases than some of its competitors ensuring that
the compliance level is as high as possible.
Racal's EDGE development is now more than three years old and is based
on test systems delivered to all major infrastructure manufacturers to
assist them in their development of EDGE. The resulting technology formed
the basis of Racal's 2.5G mobile tester and became available in 2001.
The level of proven reliability of the platform has put Racal in a position
where almost every EGPRS test case delivered by setcom is working on the
6103 AIME/CT system.
Dan Quant, product manager, is keen to encourage manufacturers to look
at other performance indicators in addition to the volume of GCF/PTCRB
validated test cases. He believes that in some cases manufacturers are
effectively being used to carry out R&D on behalf of the test equipment
supplier detracting the manufacturer from his core activity of product
development. Quant explained, "When a manufacturer hits a problem with
a test case he submits paperwork requesting that the test case is de-listed.
The test case supplier then has 90 days to re-establish that the test
case works before the test case has to go through formal re-validation
by the certification body (either GCF or PTCRB). In either case the manufacturer
is inconvenienced and confidence in the validation process of test cases
is diminished. Racal Instruments has made a conscious decision not to
go down this route and would suggest that in looking for a supplier of
test equipment that a further question to ask after 'How many test cases
have been certified by the GCF and PTCRB?' is 'How many have been de-listed?'
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3G Motorola A920
