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FTC approves Alltel purchase (USA)

The Federal Trade Commission has given approval to Verizon Wireless for Alltel purchase. In Nov. the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved a deal that would create the country’s largest cellphone company. Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group , under an agreement with the Justice Department, will vend operations [...]

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 12th, 2008

Cable & Wireless plans to layoff 1,200 employees in Caribbean

The British incumbent plans a job cut of 1,200 workers in the Caribbean region in order to restructure its regional operations. Cable & Wireless PLC has reportedly said that layoffs at the newly renamed LIME operation will affect workers based in 13 islands. LIME spokesman Errol Miller says layoffs will be done with by September’09.
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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 12th, 2008

CoolPad Won Supply Contracts from China Telecom

China Wireless Technologies Ltd., the HK-listed subsidiary of CoolPad, said in a statement on December 10 that it had signed a supply contract of 100,000 CDMA mobile phones with China Telecom, the second largest telecom carrier in China.
The contract is part of the first batch procurement of CMDA mobile phones of the telecom operator. In [...]

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 12th, 2008

Foreign telcos eye possible stake in RCom (India)

The foreign telcos are in talks with RCom, the Indian incumbent, to buy its 20%-26% of stake, a source reveals. According to a local media report, the strategic investor would buy shares from the secondary market, and then be allocated fresh shares through a preferential allotment. The source further unveiled that the deal will be [...]

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 12th, 2008

Vodafone launches mobile money transfer service between UK and Kenya

Vodafone Group launches its mobile money transfer pilot scheme transacted between UK and Kenya, focusing onto increasing its vitality in the growing industry and among its potential customers. The UK based group, is in a deal with the Kenyan biggie Safaricom tagged with Western Union money transfer services.
The service is in based on the success [...]

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 12th, 2008

Zain Kenya to relaunch Sokotele, rebranded as Zap

Zain is set to relaunch its money transfer service ‘Sokotele’ in the beginning of 2009 under the brand name ‘Zap’. Rene Meza, Managing Director of Zain Kenya, said that the delay in the re-launch arose since they had not met the full regulation requirements by the Central Bank of Kenya. “You will be able to [...]

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 12th, 2008

China to award 3G licences by 2009, says Li

Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, said, China will award third-generation mobile phone licences this month or at the start of 2009.  China will award licences to following operators:
China Mobile for TD-SCDMA, the homegrown 3G standard
China Unicom for WCDMA system
China Telecom for CDMA 2000 technology.
Beijing has worked really hard to develop its homegrown [...]

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 11th, 2008

Virgin Mobile USA selects Exclaim to provide MyApps (USA)

Exclaim(R), the leading publisher of innovative user-generated content, socialization & infotainment community applications for mobile consumers, today announced the launch of its MyApps portfolio of mobile applications on Virgin Mobile USA’s on-deck storefront. MyHoroscope, MyLovesigns and MyFaith, part of the MyApps Infotainment Community portfolio of mobile applications, are immediately available on select Virgin Mobile USA [...]

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 11th, 2008

MTNL launches 3G services in India

India launches its first 3G service, operated by state-owned telecom giant MTNL. MTNL will currently offer its 3G service in parts of Central Delhi, and has described it as a “soft launch.” The network will go live by the end of January. MTNL intends to initially invest $83 million rolling out 3G services in [...]

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 11th, 2008

China Mobile inks 3G equipment contract worth $0.786 Bn (China)

China Mobile has inked a $0.786 Bn deal to provide TD-SCDMA 3G network equipment orders. The world’s largest mobile operators by subscribers has signed these cotracts with ZTE Corp, Datang Telecom Group, Nokia-Siemens and Ericsson. New TD-SCDMA networks, with the coverage of 28 cities will be done with by June’09.
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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 11th, 2008

Pantech And AT&T Deliver One of the Holidays’ Best Values (USA)

Pantech Wireless, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Pantech Group, one of Korea’s largest mobile phone manufacturers – today announced the availability, on Friday December 12, of the C630, a capable and inexpensive candy-bar style phone that offers a variety of media-rich essentials for the modern user. Packed with more than its share of features for the [...]

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 11th, 2008

Sandbridge Partners With 4G Mobile Software Developers to Offer Complete Multimode, Multi-Function Solutions to Handset OEM’s (Red Orbit )

Mobile chip innovator establishes software ecosystem around its reprogrammable baseband processor TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Dec.
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3G wireless, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 11th, 2008

Intel and the WiMAX Forum Working on Affordable WiMAX Devices for India (cellular-news)

At a recent conference, Sriram Viswanathan, Intel vice president and general manager of the WiMAX Program Office, announced that the company is working with Indian service providers and device manufacturers to help bring WiMAX-ready notebooks and netbooks to the India market segment mid-2009
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3G wireless, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 11th, 2008

Alcatel-Lucent Wins Taiwanese Femtocell Contract (cellular-news)

Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded a Femtocell contract from Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom, to deploy Taiwan’s first femtocell network, which will enhance the coverage of Chunghwa Telecom’s mobile network inside homes and offices.
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Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 1 Dec 11th, 2008

The danger of "cutting the cord" – where’s the femtocell going to go? (Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless)

I see many references to people wanting to “cut the cord”, and have an all-mobile home. This is particularly the case in the US, where it is positioned as a sort of aspirational goal by some, while in Europe it is (often) just something that applies to people either living on their own, or who are in lower socio-economic groups. There’s also another big difference. When Americans say “cut the…
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Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 11th, 2008

Have your Femtocell Call my SMB Picocell (Digital Lifescapes | by David H. De)

The femtocell has the potential to improve indoor cellular coverage. But an older technology, the picocell, has existed for about a decade. Picocells provide larger coverage and capacity than femtocells, which should make them well suited to small and medium businesses. Yet global shipments of picocells will total only about 18,000 this year. Why haven’t picocells gained greater market share, and…
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Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 10th, 2008

WiMAX, 3G and number portability to drive Indian wireless market … – DigiTimes (Matt’s blog)

WiMAX , 3G and number portability to drive Indian wireless market … DigiTimes, Taiwan – 59 minutes ago “In 2009, the rollout of 3G and WiMAX networks and the implementation of MNP are expected to drive the growth of the wireless sector. …
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3G wireless, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 10th, 2008

ATT to trial 3G femtocells next year – In-home cell towers coming to ATT (dejaTalk)

The femtocell push has hit the US GSM ecosystem. Sprint’s Airave femtocell is already on market and ready to boost Sprint’s CDMA signal for customers with weak signal reception in their homes. Today, we are hearing that AT&T is looking to trial their own 3G GSM femtocell solution next year. Femtocells are essentially miniaturized cellular base [...]
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Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 10th, 2008

Does your femtocell like tomato?

VoIP (Voice over IP) services can suffer from bad press where they compete for
bandwidth with your PC or other data applications on your network.
Voice is particularly intolerant to delay – if a packet isn’t received
in time then it’s discarded causing silence. Some codecs are
tolerant of packet loss, and this…

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 10th, 2008

Metro Femtocells and Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) Compared

There’s been a lot of hype recently proposing femtocells as a low cost
means of rolling out mobile network capacity (specifically for LTE, the
new 4th Generation radio standard). Femtocells could be a low cost way
of providing hotspot capacity in public areas. But in some situations,
it will compete with existing techniques….

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 10th, 2008

The four groups to convince about Femtocells

As a disruptive new technology, femtocells have to gain the support of several different groups before they get the green light for adoption and commercial rollout by a network operator. I believe there are four specific groups who must approve. In order for femtocells to succeed, then all…

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 10th, 2008

The Femtocell Product Lifecycle

The product lifecycle of femtocells involves developing more
functionality and capability as the concept and components are passed
up through a series of vendors and operators to the end customer. We
can see that different technologies are at different stages of this
femtocell product life-cycle as shown in the chart below.

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 10th, 2008

Does 200 customers count as a full commercial 3G femtocell launch?

Starhub, one of the three Singaporean mobile networks, announced the world’s first launch of commercial service of 3G femtocells (http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2008/11/27/starhub-launches-world-s-first-3g-femtocell-service) after a six month trial. It’s also the first fixed/mobile femtocell package, requiring femtocell customers to have Starhub’s cable broadband service. But the service is limited to the…

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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 10th, 2008

Femto Forum study concludes that cell-to-cell interference between femtocells and the macro network is not a barrier to deployment

Femtocells can deliver a significant increase in mobile network capacity and play a key role in increasing mobile data speeds

Dallas, US – 2nd December 2008 – The Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, today announced the results of its femtocell radio study. The study found that femtocells have the potential to deliver an order of magnitude more capacity than the macro network alone when used in dense deployments, even when occupying the same radio channel as the macrocells. It also identified numerous technological solutions that mitigate potential i…
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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 10th, 2008

Femto Forum adopts field-proven management protocol to facilitate large-scale femtocell deployments

London, UK – 16th July 2008 – The Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, today announces that its members have agreed to implement the Broadband Forum’s TR-069 "CPE WAN Management Protocol", a worldwide standard for real-time management of customer premises equipment (CPE), as the basis for the management protocol for femtocells.

Following its definition in 2004, approximately 30 million devices now use this standard, making it robust and well-proven, with full interoperability. Management and provisioning of very high volumes of femtocells has been …
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3G wireless, Femtocell, WiMAX Comments 0 Dec 10th, 2008

Bouygues Telecom to deploy Starent Networks Solution to provide Multimedia Services over its UMTS Network (France)

Starent Networks, Corp., a leading provider of infrastructure solutions that enable mobile operators to deliver multimedia services, announced that Bouygues Telecom, a leading mobile operator in France, is deploying Starent Networks’ intelligent multimedia core networking solution to deliver services over its broadband UMTS network.
With more than nine million subscribers, Bouygues Telecom is the third [...]