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'Super-3Gs' get connected via the Gobi

News Greg Raleigh, vice president of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, said: "The Gobi solution enables enterprise users and consumers with the freedom of being untethered from wi-fi hotspots and connecting to the internet using...

Tags: hp, wireless, lenovo, dell

[07 Apr 2008]

GT-X: A Telkomsel Case Study

whitepaper Telkomsel is the leading operator of cellular telecommunications services in Indonesia by market share. Telkomsel provides GSM cellular services in Indonesia, through its own nationwide Dual-band GPRS network, and internationally, through 143...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, cellular, technology platform, indonesia

[04 Apr 2008]

Optimizing Cellular Backhaul Networks With Optical Multiservice Platforms

whitepaper As mobile users increasingly adopt IP-based music, video, and data services, cellular bandwidth requirements are growing exponentially - especially in the cellular backhaul network. Mobile carriers are incorporating more packet-based services than...

Tags: ip technologies

[03 Apr 2008]

Improving Spectral Efficiency and Reducing Adjacent Channel Interference of a Wireless Emergency Communication System

whitepaper Cellular services have been ineffective in providing defense and disaster recovery communications. Overloads that occur after disasters cause degraded resource access to all users, no matter how important.

Tags: gsm, priority, disaster, linear

[24 Mar 2008]

GPS-chip boom as mobiles enter the frame

News As well as being as inexpensive as possible, GPS chips will need to be as easy as possible for device manufacturers to integrate with Bluetooth, wi-fi, FM radio and cellular technology, Moss added. The popularity of consumer sat-nav devices is...

Tags: gps, mobiles, location based services, chips

[20 Mar 2008]

London still wi-fi king of the world

News Singapore and Tokyo were the second and third wi-fi cities respectively, with Tokyo racking up an impressive 118 per cent growth - taking it to within a hair's breadth of its Asian neighbour.iPass, which gives mobile workers access to multiple...

Tags: wi-fi, business traveller, hotspots, region

[14 Mar 2008]

New mobile masts to be drastically reduced

News T-Mobile recently announced it was investing in Ubiquisys, a UK-based company that makes femtocells, which are mini-base-stations that can be installed in homes and offices to route cellular data onto fixed-line networks.

Tags: mobile, base stations, femtocell, coverage

[07 Mar 2008]

C&W hooks up with Orange over FMC

News C&W's FMC system will use low-power GSM spectrum for in-building coverage, powered by picocells (the big brother cellular tech of femtocells) - rather than wi-fi, which is used by BT's rival Fusion service.

Tags: cable & wireless, fmc, orange, device

[05 Mar 2008]

T-Mobile injects cash into femtocells

News They route 3G and GSM cellular calls onto a fixed DSL connection, therefore improving indoor coverage while taking the strain off the operator's networks. T-Mobile has invested in the UK-based femtocell manufacturer Ubiquisys.

Tags: femtocell, mobile, t-mobile, coverage

[04 Mar 2008]

The Role of Mobile Operators and the Java Platform in the Machine-to-Machine Market

whitepaper M2M devices use integrated radios to exchange data with other machines over existing cellular networks. The ever-broadening geographic coverage of wireless data networks is stimulating the growth of a new generation of Machine-to-Machine (M2M...

Tags: java

[29 Feb 2008]

Mining Call and Mobility Data to Improve Paging Efficiency in Cellular Networks

whitepaper Locating mobile users and devices efficiently is a critical operation in cellular networks. Specifically, it mines more than 300 million call records from a large cellular operator to characterize user mobility and create mobility profiles.

Tags: cellular equipment

[28 Feb 2008]

Impact of Paging Channel Overloads or Attacks on a Cellular Network

whitepaper IP and cellular networks used to be isolated from each other. In recent years however, the two networks have started to overlap with the emergence of devices that access the Internet using cellular infrastructures.

Tags: cellular equipment

[28 Feb 2008]

IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) - The Open Industry Standard Supporting the Next Generation of Converged Network Services

whitepaper IMS was initially developed by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) and 3GPP2 organizations, primarily as an IP core network architecture for cellular/wireless operators. The next generation communications network is already taking shape...

Tags: ip technologies

[28 Feb 2008]

Location-based services set to boom

News CSR has developed a system that augments GPS to improve the availability of location data by using the cellular timing measurements phones take during normal operation. But adding cellular triangulation tech to a GPS-enabled phone could give it a...

Tags: location, location-based services, csr, gps

[11 Feb 2008]

What's hot at Mobile World Congress 2008?

News Analysts have been touting femtocells as a tech to watch this year, so interest in what broadband-piggybacking can offer the cellular world will certainly be high. The 2008 Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona on Monday 11 February and...

Tags: mobile world congress, mobile, 3gsm, mwc

[07 Feb 2008]

BT wi-fi phones fail to light a fuse with consumers

News According to an article in The Daily Telegraph newspaper, the BT Fusion phones - which route calls off the cellular network and onto DSL-based connections where available - have found just 45,000 takers in the consumer sector, despite widespread...

Tags: bt, fusion, wi-fi, mode

[07 Feb 2008]

Virtual tech will 'kill the office'

News Eventually, he predicts, bandwidth across different types of networks will converge so the type of network being used does not impact on the experience of the user - be it wi-fi, cellular or wired. Nortel Networks is looking to the next generation...

Tags: nortel, second life, wireless, person

[31 Jan 2008]

Vodafone explores femtocell potential?

News However, femtocells are designed to improve 3G mobile-broadband coverage by rerouting data use off the operators' cellular networks and onto wired DSL connections where possible. Vodafone is testing femtocell technology, which involves mini base...

Tags: vodafone, mobile, femtocell, operators

[28 Jan 2008]

Increasing Employee Productivity with IP Telephone Applications

whitepaper The Net6 Application Gateway takes existing web-based and XML applications and transforms them for use on IP telephones such as the i2004 and wireless devices including personal digital assistants (PDA's), cellular phones and two-way pagers.

Tags: voip - ip telephony, telephones, ip telephones, gateway

[23 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08

Round-Up The iPhone now features a redesigned Maps application that uses wi-fi and cellular base stations to triangulate a user's current location. And so another Macworld has passed us by and Mac fans and news rooms are a-twitter with talk of the latest...

Tags: iphone, mac, apple, macworld

[18 Jan 2008]

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