- Iraq's Mobile Subscribers Could Reach 5M by 2006
As Iraq struggles to reestablish communications within the country and with the outside world, its mobile phone industry is set to trigger heated competition among telecom infrastructure suppliers and service providers as well as a clash between the competing cellular technologies GSM and CDMA, according to the ArabDataNet on line ......
- CDMA operators ahead in the race to
3G.
EUROPEMEDIA-(C)2002 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ In North America, CDMA operators have taken a clear lead in the race to more advanced wireless networks through the deployment of CDMA2000 1X, according to a new report from ABI. The study finds that extensive 2.5G coverage now exists in both the ......
- GSM Subscribers Up 67%
According to recent research from The Diffusion Group, the number of mobile phone subscribers using TDMA technologies declined 23 percent in 2004 -- the first year of negative subscriber growth since the technology was introduced in 1991. Meanwhile, the firm found that the number of mobile subscribers using CDMA and ......
- New Handsets Sport Triple-IM, GSM/CDMA, Rugged Design
New York — Wireless handsets with a variety of new features have come to market, with Verizon offering the industry's first global-roaming GSM/CDMA 1x phone, T-Mobile offerings its first two handsets with three instant-messenger services built in, and Western Wireless' Cellular One offering a rugged Kyocera handset with built-in flashlight....
- Middle East Mobile Operators Initiate Cross-Border Services
KUWAIT CITY -- For the first time in the Middle East mobile operators in neighboring countries have linked up to permit their subscribers to exchange multimedia picture messages, opening up a whole new market for electronics manufacturers. Wataniya Telecom, Kuwait's leading mobile operator, has agreed with Bahrain's Batelco GSM network ......
- A modest proposal
Buoyed by the success of CDMA20001x, Qualcomm is tilting at the GSM market with a hybrid GSM-CDMA solution You are a GSM operator without 3G spectrum. You want to provide a competitive data offering but GPRS is disappointing, EDGE an unknown quantity, and WCDMA unattainable. Enter Qualcomm, with GSM1x, an ......
- Mobile carriers get the message: customers want MMS
interoperability.
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) and 3G Americas, which champions GSM-related technologies (TDMA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS), don't often agree on much. But, these two organizations are working together on guidelines for inter-carrier multimedia messaging service (MMS) in the Americas. MMS is all extension to short message service (SMS) ......