MobilenniuM Express
3G Industry news from the UMTS Forum
13 July 2007
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that this month it began testing an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications. With this experiment, DoCoMo will seek to achieve a downlink transmission rate of 300Mbps over a high-speed wireless network.
KTF, the No.1 WCDMA operator in Korea, announced that the number of WCDMA subscribers reached over 1 million as of July 6, 2007. This translates that the number of WCDMA subscribers has doubled in just 51 days since after reaching of 0.5 million subscribers on May 16 – a rate of 10 thousand new SHOW subscribers a day.
Option N.V. the wireless technology company, today announced that Vodafone is the first operator in Germany to offer an HSUPA data card. The Option GlobeTrotter EXPRESS HSUPA data card, including the Cardbus-ExpressCard Converter, is customized to the exacting requirements of the operator and is branded by Vodafone in Germany as the “Mobile Connect Card Express UMTS Broadband” data card.
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, has been selected by Telecom Italia to expand and upgrade its HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) networks covering Southern Italy, including important cities such as Palermo, the capital of Sicily.
Orange today announced the extension of its Business Everywhere range of connectivity solutions to include a 3G+ (HSDPA) USB modem and two PC datacards, with innovative signalling technology for improved connection speeds and performance.
Analog Devices, Inc. a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, today unveiled the latest addition to its award-winning family of Othello® direct conversion radios and its broad TD-SCDMA product portfolio, the Othello-3T AD6552.
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that on July 11 (local time) it agreed with the wireless unit of AT&T Inc., the largest mobile operator in the U.S., under which DoCoMo will provide technical and financial support of up to US$24 million for the deployment of AT&T's third-generation (3G) mobile phone network in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
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