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Alcatel Bridges Asia and Europe through Live 3G/UMTS
October 15, 2002
Alcatel announced that it is establishing daily live 3G/UMTS mobile
videophony communications between Asia and Europe. On September
12th, the Malaysian Ministry of Energy, Communications & Multimedia
as well as other local officials and international press, appreciated
for the first time the quality of such combined voice and video
calls between Kuala Lumpur and Paris during the official opening
of Alcatel's 3G Reality Centre in Malaysia.
This World Premiere follows the mobile videophony calls conducted
by Alcatel in Europe during the past few months, linking various
3G/UMTS pilot networks deployed by Alcatel in Portugal, Spain, Italy,
France and Sweden.
Ever since, Alcatel has been conducting mobile videophony calls
inside Asia, namely between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur as part of
the 3GSM Asia Pacific congress.
In this sequence of successful premieres based on Alcatel's 3G/UMTS
leading-edge solutions, the lucky videophony users were the first
in the world to see and hear each other in full mobility, as well
as to watch what was happening "live" in their respective countries.
All these calls were made using 3GPP-compliant mobile handsets communicating
over Alcatel's Evolium™ Core and radio solutions.
Back in June, Alcatel had already provided Italian and Spanish
supporters with the opportunity to share their passion in streaming
and transferring clips over UMTS of the latest goals scored during
the 2002 Soccer World Cup.
To achieve all this, the same 3G/UMTS Asian mobile handsets are
able to reach both 384 Kbps in packet switch mode and 64Kbps in
circuit switch mode that are allowed by the end-to-end 3G/UMTS pilot
networks deployed by Alcatel around the world in full compliance
with W-CDMA 3GPP standards.
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