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O2 Seeks 2G Solution To Rural 3G
News O2 is seeking permission to run 3G services in spectrum dedicated to 2G, Dave Williams, the operator's chief technical officer, revealed on Monday. Speaking at the 3GSM World Congress, Williams claimed that the only way to deliver cost-effective...
[February 13, 2006, 11:35]
Battle For The Mobile Space Heats Up
News IMAGES: Motorola's first 3G handset: The A820 Nokia's titanium GPRS phone: The Nokia 8910 NEWS: Q&A: Ericsson GPRS chief on security and roaming Fri 22 Feb: Michel Roquejoffre, head of the UMTS and GPRS project at Ericsson France, explains the...
[February 19, 2002, 13:28]
Europe And Japan Sprint Ahead In 3G Race
News European and Japanese cellphone carriers have retaken the lead over the rest of the world in the race to offer next-generation cellphone technology, say executives gathering in Cannes for next week's 3GSM World Congress 2004.
[February 23, 2004, 13:20]
GSM Group Declares Victory In Standards War
News In a few years, most people in the world using a phone to watch streaming video or for any high-speed mobile data service will be doing it on a GSM phone, said the head of the group championing the standard.
[September 25, 2003, 8:55]
Microsoft Dominates First Day Of 3GSM
News The 3GSM World Congress kicked off in Barcelona on Monday with a swathe of announcements and product launches across the mobile space. Microsoft, which has been striving for several years to replicate its dominance on the desktop in the mobile...
[February 14, 2006, 12:10]
Microsoft Makes Waves At 3GSM
News As the world's mobile phone industry gathered for the annual 3GSM shindig, Microsoft's latest deals dominated conversations on the show floor and in the bars and hotels of Cannes. Even before 3GSM had kicked off, Microsoft was making headlines with...
[February 16, 2005, 14:35]
Dual Handsets Solve CDMA Puzzle
News Two Korean firms have unveiled dual-band phones that can be used on incompatible high-speed cellular data networks. The breakthrough overcomes the international roaming roadblock facing third-generation (3G) cellular users.
[October 22, 2003, 11:25]
Convergence Is King At 3GSM
News Convergence has been one of the hottest buzzwords in the mobile industry for several years. This week, the 3GSM World Congress saw compelling evidence that once-rival technologies can work together, and that the world is moving fast towards an all...
[February 16, 2006, 10:10]
It's The Mobile Enterprise, Stupid
Leader The most influential device at 3GSM this week was a product launched in 2001 by a company that to this day has never sold a phone or a second of airtime. Such is the power of the iPod and the revolution in digital content it has created.
[February 16, 2005, 15:05]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog Sunday 12/02/2006 It's 3GSM time, and a flock of British journalists are taking to the skies. I join the migration courtesy of O2, which has hired an entire hotel - if you will, an O-tel [No, I won't, if you don't mind.
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
Java-based Streaming '10 Times Faster Than MPEG-4'
News Finnish developer Oplayo has been demonstrating a compression technology at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes which, says the company, is up to ten times faster for delivering audio and video to mobile devices than MPEG-4.
[February 20, 2002, 12:36]
The Lessons Of DoCoMo
News The president and CEO of NTT DoCoMo, Masao Nakamura, has been sharing some of his company's plans for advanced mobile technology -- and talking about how users in his home market can nowadays be a tough crowd to please.
[February 16, 2005, 11:25]
3GSM World Congress: Day One Roundup
News The 3GSM World Congress began in Barcelona on Monday with Microsoft making an early bid for the limelight with its new PlayReady DRM system. PlayReady aims to make digital rights management (DRM) more attractive to users, by allowing them to easily...
[February 12, 2007, 16:38]
Mobile Industry Gets The Teamwork Buzz
News The mobile industry is as tough and competitive as any IT sector, but there were signs on Tuesday that co-operation could be the new way forward. Fourteen operators have promised to do their bit to help instant messaging develop on mobiles.
[February 15, 2006, 11:20]
3G Gets Closer To EDGE
News With 3, Hutchison's UK greenfield mobile network, going live shortly and other operators close to UMTS 3G launches -- research company EMC estimates 40 this year -- it seems users are nearer to the fast and versatile mobile telecoms promised land...
[February 21, 2003, 13:12]
3G Fades From Conference Radar
News The 3GSM World Congress -- the world's biggest wireless expo -- is highlighting some of the industry's main themes of the moment as it gets underway this week. They include multimedia messaging (MMS), Wi-Fi and next-generation smartphones, but less...
[February 19, 2003, 12:52]
Symbian Adds Security, Java To Mobile Mix
News Symbian, the mobile phone industry-backed software company, has unveiled a significant update to its operating system for smartphones, adding better support for developers and improving security. Version 7.0 of the Symbian OS, announced at the 3GSM...
[February 19, 2002, 13:56]
Linux Paves Way For Cheaper Smartphones
News Several leading mobile technology players have cooperated on a project to explore Linux's potential as the major software component in future smartphones. At the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, Infineon Technologies, Samsung and embedded Linux...
[February 15, 2005, 16:30]
RIP 3GSM
Blog That uberfest of all things mobile, 3GSM (held annually in both Barcelona and Macau) is officially a thing of the past. What? cry tech-lovers and hacks alike across the globe.but fear not. Rising like a phoenix from 3GSM's ashes are.the Mobile...
[June 13, 2007, 10:15]
An Introduction To UMTS And The Implications On OSS
White Papers Wireless service providers (WSPs) have spent over 120 Billion Euros on UMTS licences. In addition, WSPs will need to invest in UMTS infrastructure and also the systems that enable the UMTS networks and services to operate efficiently.
[March 22, 2005, 2:00]
