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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]
RIP 3GSM
Blog The name 3GSM was of course an earth-shatteringly witty conflagration of 3G and GSM, and while those technologies are still major players they are no longer the sole focus of the exhibition. This year there were scads of WiMax vendors and their ilk...
[June 13, 2007, 10:15]
O2 Seeks 2G Solution To Rural 3G
News Speaking at the 3GSM World Congress, Williams claimed that the only way to deliver cost-effective high-speed mobile services in rural areas across Europe was to use the spectrum currently used for GSM services.
[February 13, 2006, 11:35]
Microsoft Dominates First Day Of 3GSM
News Mobile operator O2 used 3GSM to drop a heavy hint to Ofcom that it wants the freedom to run 3G services in its GSM spectrum. In the hardware space, Nokia launched a phone that can used Wi-Fi as well as GSM, and HP has unveiled the iPAQ hw6900...
[February 14, 2006, 12:10]
Nokia Embraces Convergence With Wi-Fi Phone
News Mobile equipment manufacturer Nokia said it was unifying GSM and Wi-Fi connectivity on Monday with a new mobile phone that's compatible with both wireless standards. The Nokia 6136, launched at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, is a UMA phone...
[February 13, 2006, 15:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 23/02/2004This week is Mobile Week - with 3GSM kicking off in Cannes and the announcement of a billion GSM subscribers worldwide, things have never looked better for the industry. Reports from Cannes tell of unmatched hospitality and...
[February 27, 2004, 16:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog For those that care, my total email count of GSM-related PR requests is now standing at around 250, possibly 300. Friday 10/2/2006 And talking of roaming… Just a couple of days to go now before I and my pals scoot off to 3GSM.
[February 10, 2006, 16:50]
Ericsson GPRS-WLAN Interworking Solution
White Papers Ericsson’s combined GPRS and wireless local area network (WLAN) solution for GSM and WCDMA/UMTS offers operators and users the best of both worlds, by combining the extensive coverage of GPRS with the higher access speed of WLAN technology.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog There's no room to talk about the other pleasures of 3GSM - the Nokia party which set new levels of grimness, the GSM Association press conference where the CEOs of eight major network operators sat at one table and all I could think of was...
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
Ofcom May Allow 3G Over 2G
News The call was made over the Finnish network Elisa, using Nokia's Flexi WCDMA technology to transmit 3G traffic through the previously GSM-only base station infrastructure. Two UK operators — Vodafone and O2 — already use the 900MHz band for their...
[November 14, 2006, 12:30]
HSPA Set To Dominate Mobile Broadband
News There are currently 128 HSDPA-enabled devices — which provide data downlink speeds five to 10 times faster than standard 3GSM/WCDMA — according to the GSM Association. It is out there, it's available and it is also a software upgrade from the...
[August 9, 2007, 12:43]
Broadcom Cleans Up Noisy Mobiles
News The company says that many handset manufacturers and operators are looking at the new technology, which is being added to all Broadcom's mobile chipsets from GSM to 3G WCDMA services. American chipmaker Broadcom announced a new technology to...
[February 14, 2006, 11:15]
Dual Handsets Solve CDMA Puzzle
News However, due to the overwhelming number of GSM users, WCDMA subscribers will outnumber those for CDMA2000, said the report. Two Korean firms have unveiled dual-band phones that can be used on incompatible high-speed cellular data networks.
[October 22, 2003, 11:25]
3G Gets Closer To EDGE
News EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) is sometimes referred to as 2.75G, sitting in the evolution path between 2.5G GSM/GPRS networks and 3G networks of the W-CDMA -- or UMTS -- flavour. With 3, Hutchison's UK greenfield mobile network...
[February 21, 2003, 13:12]
WiMax Gathers Steam
News As next-generation cellular technologies — including those of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) project, whose mission is to guide the evolution of GSM cellular networks — have trouble getting off the ground, the industry has been turning its...
[March 27, 2007, 10:57]
Orange To Squeeze Out GPRS In March
News GPRS networks will allow significantly faster data transfer rates than GSM, making it easier for users to surf the Internet from their handset. Orange's HSCSD (high-speed, circuit-switched data) network, which launched in August 2000, also offers...
[February 19, 2002, 17:15]
VoIP Mobiles Are A Call For Change
Leader Obviously Wi-Fi lacks many of the features that allow GSM networks to provide seamless, reliable and high quality services across the country and internationally. Last month we saw the first signs of progress towards SIM-based Wi-Fi authentication...
[February 15, 2006, 14:10]
Q&A: Ericsson GPRS Chief On Security And Roaming
News But most of the GSM or GPRS applications launched this year will have personalisation options, either directly on one's mobile or via the operator's Web portal. Michel Roquejoffre is the head of the UMTS and GPRS project at Ericsson France.
[February 22, 2002, 12:43]
Microsoft Targets Mass-market Smartphones
News Peabody runs on GSM networks -- the world's most widespread wireless standard -- and GPRS, the data delivery arm of GSM networks. Microsoft announced a partnership on Sunday with phone maker Flextronics to market a new mobile phone platform running...
[February 14, 2005, 7:40]
Intel Steps Up 3G Integration Efforts
News Intel has signed a deal with the GSM Association (GSMA) to help hardware makers include mobile SIM card readers and 3G connectivity in new PCs. The pair announced the initiative on Tuesday at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona.
[February 14, 2006, 15:55]
