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3G Industry news from the UMTS Forum
07 March 2008

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Alcatel-Lucent expands 3G W-CDMA/HSPA portfolio with new distributed base station that offers increased deployment flexibility and lowers power requirements
Alcatel-Lucent today announced the expansion of its Wideband-CDMA/High Speed Packet Access (W-CDMA/HSPA) portfolio with a new distributed base station product, the fanless 60-watt remote radio head (RRH) node B, the first platform of its kind in the industry.

Vodafone selects Ericsson for national mobile broadband rollout
Vodafone Australia has appointed Ericsson as the primary hardware and software vendor to support its national mobile broadband rollout, based on High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology, which is being fast-tracked for completion in December 2008.

Nokia Siemens Networks to upgrade the mobile network of the E-Plus Group
Nokia Siemens Networks and Germany's mobile operator E-Plus Group have extended their frame cooperation to cover an expansion and upgrade of the E-Plus 3G radio network until 2010.
Huawei launches world's first 3.5G datacard with mobile TV functionality
Huawei Technologies Co.Ltd. has announced that it has launched the world's first mobile TV capable 3.5G datacard, called the E510, at CEBIT, the world's largest communications showcase event for consumer electronics, held in Hannover, Germany.

T-Mobile and Nokia introduce Nokia 6650 exclusively for T-Mobile customers
Today, at CeBIT 2008, T-Mobile and Nokia announced the Nokia 6650, a stylish and easy to use device optimized for use with T-Mobile services.

Ericsson wins mobile broadband expansion and radio transmission contract with the E-Plus Group in Germany
Ericsson has been selected by German mobile operator E-Plus to expand and upgrade its WCDMA network.

Nokia introduces the Nokia 6124 classic exclusively with Vodafone, optimized for fast internet browsing
Nokia today announced the launch of the Nokia 6124 classic, exclusively available from Vodafone in Vodafone markets.
Vodafone to demonstrate the fastest mobile data transmission service in the wireless network at CeBIT
Vodafone is the right address for anyone who wants to find out more about the simple and high-speed wireless transmission of large data volumes.
Zain Saudi Arabia awards Motorola $335 million 2G/3G network contract
Motorola, Inc. today announced that it has signed a $335 million turnkey contract to deploy and manage a 2G/3G mobile communications network for Zain in Saudi Arabia, the recent addition to the Zain group, a long standing Motorola customer.
Vodafone launches the world's smallest mobile broadband modem as a stick
Today, a year after the introduction of the plug and play USB modem for mobile internet on the laptop, Vodafone Netherlands introduces this mobile broadband modem as USB stick.
 
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