Qualcomm to present ‘EV-DO Rev. B’ technology in Korea

Qualcomm (www.3gchipsets.co.kr) presented its ‘EV-DO Rev. B’ technology in Korea market during Korea IT Show (KIS) 2007.
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picoChip Adds CDMA2000 and EvDO Support

picoChip Adds CDMA2000 and EvDO Support for Femtocells and Picocells via Partnership with GWT

All 3G standards now available on the picoArrayTM platform

picoChip today announced that Global Wireless Technologies (GWT) has developed a hardware reference design and software for CDMA2000 and EvDO femtocells and picocells running on the picoArrayTM processor. This gives picoChip’s customers solutions for all the major standards, WCDMA (HSDPA upgradeable to HSUPA), CDMA2000 and EvDO Rev A, as well as TD-SCDMA and WiMAX, all on a single software-defined hardware platform. Read more

Enabling WiMAX Coverage Access Expected

Enabling WiMAX Coverage Access Expected to be the Biggest Challenge for the Emergence of Mobile WiMAX in Consumer Electronics until 2009

Over Fifty WiMAX-enabled consumer electronics products already announced

According to a new report from market research and industry analyst firm Maravedis Inc. (www.maravedis-bwa.com), the nascent mobile broadband market is primed for the emergence of WiMAX-enabled consumer electronics (CE) devices. “Opportunities and Risks for Embedding WiMAX in Consumer Electronics” is the first report covering the intersection of WiMAX and CE. The report details the status of WiMAX technologies, services critical to WiMAX success, CE products geared to WiMAX delivery, and manufacturer plans.

Popular consumer electronics devices make media portable and more enjoyable. However, devices like MP3 players and digital cameras require a personal computer to synchronize or transfer media files to and from the Internet. Consumers without an Internet connection and those averse to using a PC have not been able to take advantage of new services. Broadband wireless technologies, such as WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005), are now available so CE devices can interface directly to the Internet without requiring a PC. Read more

LG-Nortel show off desktop WiMAX video phone

LG-Nortel presented its WiMAX video phone during CeBIT 2007, which supports IEEE 802.16e-2005.
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Demand Growing for Option’s HSDPA 7.2

Demand Growing for Option’s HSDPA 7.2 EXPRESS Data Cards and ICON USB Wireless Modems

Swisscom Mobile, Pannon Hungary and Partner Communications Israel Expand Range of Mobile Data Solutions, the wireless technology company, today reported growing demand for its EXPRESS 7.2 data card and ICON 7.2 USB wireless modems from leading mobile operators in Switzerland, Hungary and Israel.

GlobeTrotter EXPRESS 7.2 data cards pack Option’s advanced data communication capabilities into the slim-line, future-proof, ExpressCard form factor compatible with the 34mm expansion slots increasingly found on the latest laptops. The GlobeSurfer(R) ICON 7.2 wireless modem delivers DSL-like performance in a compact device that can plug directly into the USB port of any laptop or desktop PC. Its sleek and stylish design will appeal to the growing consumer market for flexible wireless data solutions. Read more

Mobile TV figure ‘will spiral 800% in three years’

Reported by Lesley Stones, at Business Day

“The number of people watching television on their cellphones is poised for an eightfold increase over the next three years, reaching a figure that will finally quash doubts about its viability.” Read more here.

Sierra Wireless MP rugged modems now available with 3G connectivity

MP 595 GPS and MP 875 GPS wireless modems offer more bandwidth to provide vital information quickly, in a vehicle-mounted form factor built to withstand extreme conditions

Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR - TSX: SW) today announced the company has begun commercial shipments of the MP 595 GPS and MP 875 GPS rugged wireless modems. Both the MP 595 GPS and the MP 875 GPS are now available for order directly through Sierra Wireless, its distributors, and resellers.

Designed for use in the public safety, field service, and transportation industries, Sierra Wireless MP rugged modems are vehicle mounted and enable fast, consistent wide area wireless data communications with headquarters and dispatchers. In addition, they can provide vehicle location information with an integrated, independent GPS receiver, increasing security for employees and enabling asset tracking. The durability and reliability of Sierra Wireless MP modems have made them the wireless modem of choice for public safety agencies since the product line was introduced in 1995. Read more

Analysys Announces the World’s Top Ten Non-Voice Services for Mobile Operators

With many operators desperately searching for ways to increase non-voice revenue, the world’s top ten non-voice services have been identified in a forthcoming report, The World’s Top Ten Non-voice Services for Mobile Operators, by Analysys, the global advisers on telecoms, IT and media (research.analysys.com).

“With falling voice ARPUs, mobile operators now need to drive non-voice services,” says co-author Dr Alastair Brydon. “From a vast array of wireless services, we’ve identified the ten best non-voice services in the world, picking out those exhibiting high market potential, effective implementation and suitability for reproduction on other markets.” Read more

picoChip Powers Axiom for Femtocell Architecture

Axiom Wireless, Inc. today announced its new “One Phone Service Enabler” product family. This complete system architecture includes the ACF-400 switch and two femtocells: the A-Pro2100 for WCDMA (HSPA) and the A-Pro3500 WiMAX. This is the first WiMAX femtocell, and the first femtocell architecture expressly designed to integrate different wireless standards, starting with these but adding more. With the One Phone Service Enabler, carriers will be able to offer in building service coverage without modifying their existing network, at lower cost, with higher reliability and more flexibility. Read more

2G, 2.5G, 2.75G and 3G Technologies

Get a Deep Insight into the Mobile Communications Market: 2G, 2.5G, 2.75G and 3G Technologies

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the worldwide mobile communications industry is now available to its catalogue.

2007 Technology - Mobile Communications and Mobile Data

http://www.reportlinker.com/p047498/mobile-data.html

This report introduces managers, investors and technical specialists to mobile cellular communications technologies for voice and data. Read more

Intel red faced after WiMAX demo fails

Intel used its Developer Forum in Beijing to name the date it would be introducing WiMax in notebooks: by the end of June 2008. But it was embarrassed during a keynote when it couldn’t actually get the technology to work.

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Blogging Beijing: Intel UMPC Prototype

by DL Byron on April 18, 2007

During IDF Beijing, I was hanging out in the Crowne Plaza restaurant with Bryan Rhoads, an Intel Internet Strategist and we met Mark Parker, Chief Evangelist, from the Ultra Mobility Group. He had a prototype UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) with him and showed us how it works. It’s the Menlow platform with Silverthorn, Poulsbo inside and a bunch of other ultra geeky code names.

Mark told us that the prototype is one of two in the world and it’s the first time it’s been seen widely. In the video, Mark notes that it’ll run Linux and potentially OSX. Touchscreen, nice form factor, the whole deal.

High Capacity Multi-Media Mobile Wireless Networks

High Capacity Multi-Media Mobile Wireless Networks Creating Growth for Backhaul Industry as well, new Visant Strategies

The new world of muscled up mobile networks and applications is creating an ever-increasing need for backhaul and new strategies for doing so, a new Visant Strategies study finds. In addition to finding means to physically carry this increasing load carriers are also eager to mitigate additional increases in the roughly $3.5 billion they spent in 2006 for backhaul services, according to “US Mobile Backhaul: Evolving Market 2007.”

“Data services, including multi-media downloads, and network upgrades to WCDMA/HSDPA and EV-DO have led to a surge in backhaul use by mobile carriers,” said report author Andy Fuertes. “As carriers deploy these evolutionary air-interfaces they must also provide more robust ties between deployed infrastructure and the greater Internet and telecom networks since the newer apps will require bigger pipes to the outside telecom world.”

Increasing backhaul expenditures represents one hurdle carriers must overcome; physical limitations of copper and its inability to address towers with multiple high-speed base stations is a longer-term issue in almost half of all base stations deployed, the study finds. Read more

New report from SBD compares merits of Cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX

New report from SBD compares merits of Cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX for vehicle telematics industry

• New European ITS/Telematics report from SBD, The opportunities for cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX in telematics
• Comprehensive appraisal of current and near-future mobile data communications technologies
• Assessment of relative performance potential for in-vehicle telematics services

Modern business demands quick and constant communications channels, fueling ever-more efficient and speedy transfer of data, through mobile telephones, laptop computers and hand-held devices. As 3G telephone services are enhanced towards (an as yet undefined) 4G level and the concept of Wi-Fi connection hotspots is expanded to much wider WiMAX coverage, SBD has investigated the real-world capabilities of these data channels and the actual requirements for delivering telematics solutions. Read more

SoC maker TeleCIS Wireless sells 802.16e assets to Qualcomm

by Jeff Orr
Editor, Mobile Broadband News

TeleCIS Wireless has reportedly sold the engineering assets of its 802.16e silicon on chip (SoC) business to Qualcomm for an undisclosed amount. As a result of the transaction, the Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor startup moved its office to smaller quarters in nearby Campbell, CA. Sales, support, and development for its current portfolio of 802.16-2004 chipsets is expected to remain the organization’s focus going forward.

Founded in January 2000 to develop chipsets for the WLAN market, TeleCIS has built a portfolio of Wi-Fi, OFDM and smart antenna technologies. Most recently, the TeleCIS team had announced development of a Mobile WiMAX (802.16e) chipset. The new chipset was expected to deliver under 300mw power consumption and implement STC, Beamforming and Diversity combining in a single ASIC, and was to be introduced in the second half of 2007. Read more

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