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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Lucent to help Cingular develop 3G applications

October 17, 2005

Cingular Wireless and Lucent Technologies announced that Cingular has awarded Lucent a four-year agreement to provide a comprehensive IMS-based (IP Multimedia Subsystem) solution that will enable Cingular to rapidly develop and launch a broad range of new personalized voice, video, data and multimedia services.

Lucent's IMS-based architecture and applications will complement Cingular's 3G network and enable Cingular to offer subscribers innovative, easy-to-use services that they can access anytime, anywhere, with almost any device.

Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS) will assist Cingular in the deployment and integration of Lucent's solution. This includes multi-vendor integration and technical support services that will seamlessly connect and maintain a critical link between Cingular's core network and its new applications portal.

"Lucent's IMS-based architecture, combined with our 3G UMTS/HSDPA network, will allow us to offer our customers new and exciting end-user experiences over one of the most advanced, reliable and secure networks in North America," said Kelly Williams, executive director of strategy and planning for Cingular. "The IMS platform also provides Cingular with a cost effective process for delivering these new features and services."

IMS is an open, standards-based solution to build next-generation networks capable of delivering advanced communications services. With a standards-based IMS architecture and solution that allow services to flow in a network-agnostic environment, service providers can build applications and have them work with numerous endpoints, producing the so-called "grand slam" of services -- voice, data, video and wireless/wired communications.

"Lucent offers a unique blend of Bell Labs enabled technology, expertise and an end-to-end portfolio of solutions and services to build and deliver next-generation networks that offer the easy-to-use services customers are clamoring for," said Joe McCarthy, sales vice president for Lucent Technologies. "Lucent's IMS-based architecture enables Cingular to smoothly introduce new applications that customers can access anytime, anywhere, with any device, into its existing network while controlling operational and capital expense."

Cingular will deploy components of Lucent's Accelerate Next Generation Communications Solutions portfolio that consists of IMS-based products and applications, both with unique Bell Labs developed enhancements and services.