Telecommunications (International Edition) articles from February 2001

Telecommunications (International Edition) archives from February 2001

A touch of deja vu.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... "Whilst most of us blithely ignore what goes on behind the scenes in the IP carriage world, key issues continue to rumble on and be hotly contested." How much should content providers, ISPs and carriers pay each other for use of their...

Online advertising slump predicted.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... EUROPE--Yahoo! Europe has warned that European online advertising revenue will rise by only 20 per cent in 2001, compared to 150 per cent last year. This has been attributed to lack of Dotcom cash and a maturing of the market. Yahoo!...

SMEs won't reap ASP benefits until 2005.(small and medium-sized enterprises;)(application service providers)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... EUROPE -- ASPs claim to provide impressive cost savings but it will not be a quick-fix solution. According to the PA Consulting Group, it may be 4-5 years before ASPs prove their true value to the SME market. ASPs (application service...

China Mobile signs GPRS deals.(general packet radio service)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... China Mobile has held a signing ceremony of its GPRS project (phase 1) in Beijing. Four suppliers: Huawei, Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia were finally awarded contracts. The total construction capacity of China Mobile GPRS will cover 25 cities...

Nigerian networking summit.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... A networking summit, that will examine opportunities in Nigerian mobile and fixed-line telecommunications, is due to take place on the 910 April 2001. The Nigerian Ministry of Communications, Communications Commission, and the Senate Committee...

Vodafone acquires stake in Japan Telecom.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... Vodafone has announced it will acquire a 15 per cent equity stake in Japan Telecom from two existing shareholders, West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and Central Japan Railway Company, for 249 bn yen ([epsilon]2.2 bn). Japan Telecom is the...

Telecoms markets ride Nokia's warning.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... GLOBAL -- Good news has been a rare commodity recently in the telecoms sector. In an area more used to profits and boom than prophets of doom, the last quarter has been bleak. During the past three months a procession of warnings have emerged...

Privatisation spreads eastwards.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... SOUTHEAST EUROPE -- Despite weakness of telecom shares in both eastern and western stock markets, significant privatisation and acquisition activities are still taking place in eastern Europe. Much of this activity is now shifting to...

India auctions off the 'fourth' mobile licences.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... INDIA -- In its attempt to follow the time-tested US-based FCC model for spectrum licensing, the Indian government has announced multi-pronged bidding for issuing licences to the fourth cellular operator in different circles. As of now,...

New Zealand favours light-handed approach.(telecommunications regulation)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... New Zealand -- It could have been a lot worse. That was the general reaction from telecommunications companies when the New Zealand government announced a new regulatory regime. As it turned out, the new rules were more light-handed than the...

View From The Top.(Viatel)
February 1, 2001... New York -- Viatel is a company in transition. Headquartered in New York, this builder-owner-operator of an extensive pan-European network is now ramping up its advanced service portfolio and saying it will withdraw its long-distance voice...

Waiting for the m-commerce explosion.(mobile telecommunications, Internet)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... It was once believed that if you brought two of the biggest things in telecoms together -- mobile and the internet -- there would be an almighty explosion of growth. It hasn't happened yet. Approximately one year age. telecoms equities were...

MVNOs to the 3G rescue.
February 1, 2001... MVNOs could accelerate the movement towards a mass market for 3G services. But MVNO success is reliant initially on either persuading the MNO to form a joint venture, or establishing a strong relationship with the MNO as an independent player...

The unknown world of 3G tariffs.
February 1, 2001... As operators invest huge sums in 3G licence fees and infrastructure, getting the tariffing right will be critical. The problem is, nobody knows how much end users will be prepared to pay for pocket-based mobile data. Operators have so far...

Mobile lifestyles.
February 1, 2001... Mobile portals create the ability to access information -- anytime, anywhere, any place -- and reflect and enable the mobile era we now live in. But what makes a portal successful and how will they evolve? The mobile internet is an...

Evolution not revolution.
February 1, 2001... As operators move towards GPRS and 3G services, the most cost-effective route will be an evolutionary network migration. High-speed data-enabled mobile networks are no longer just a vision, they are becoming a commercial reality -- the...

Monitoring GPRS performance.
February 1, 2001... Packet switching and channel sharing are just some of the challenges facing engineers in the progression from GSM to GPRS. General packet radio service (GPRS) specifies a way to transfer data over the existing GSM system at rates...

Talking telecoms.
February 1, 2001... Recent advances in voice recognition technology is creating a dynamic industry. Although in its early stages, the new technology has already evolved to satisfy the specific needs of consumers and businesses -- simplicity, efficiency and...

M-commerce up front.
February 1, 2001... The pre-paid market for voice and SMS shows that there will be substantial revenues to be generated by pre-paid m-commerce, but operators will find themselves dealing with a market more exposed to branding and marketing messages than ever...

Mixed fortunes for CDMA.
February 1, 2001... Although China shows signs of warming again to CDMA, South Korea appears to be cooling its interest. The world of second generation digital technology has always been, and continues to be, dominated by GSM, a European-inspired digital...

In defence of EDGE.(EDGE (enhanced data dates for GSM/global evolution))(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... It is cheaper than UMTS and can offer data speed rates up to 384kbps -- so why are so few operators embracing EDGE technology? EDGE (enhanced data dates for GSM/global evolution) is a standardised set of improvements to the GSM radio...

3G's soft side.
February 1, 2001... 3G networks will bring fast speeds and new servies, but also increase network complexity. Network testing will be harder but could a software-based approach be the answer? 3G mobile cellular systems present both quality improvement and the...

Made in Japan.
February 1, 2001... European mobile operators may protest that NTT DoCoMo's i-mode business model is not directly relevant to them, but the Japanese operator has demonstrated how to manage successfully a mobile internet value chain. Operators in Europe are...

Don't sell on price!
February 1, 2001... Survival in the wholesale bandwidth market depends on value added services. The international wholesale markets are not for the faint-hearted. They require extraordinarily deep pockets and an unwavering belief that silicon economics can...

Mobile VAS -- from fantasy to reality.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Operators can now have mobile VAS interoperability by using SIM toolkit and javacard, all manufactured by multiple sources. This dramatically shortens the time to market, as well as reducing cost and risk. A long-awaited objective has...

Sonera.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Sonera Operator Systems has introduced Fault Manager FM 220, a new generation fault management solution for mobile and telecom operators. FM 220 gathers and refines data from GSM, GPRS, and 3G-networks as well as from IP elements, and routes...

Hand Held Products.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Hand Held Products has announced the introduction of enhanced IrDA API software for its Dolphin 7200 hand held computer. The new software enables the Dolphin 7200 to communicate with a mobile phone and transmit scanned data. It is also possible...

Schlumberger.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Usimera is a universal JavaTM SIM card which supports traditional 2G Phase2+ SIM tool kit-based value added services and is ready for CDMA and TDMA network roaming support. Designed to fit the 3G mobile system evolution, Usimera can reduce...

Trium.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Trium's Mondo provides a 'full-featured wireless' experience, through a high-end mobile phone and pocket PC powered by a 166MHz Intel processor. Microsoft's pocket PC software on the Mondo offers access to personal business productivity tools...

Premier Electronics.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... The new range of plug & play wireless LAN cards from Premier Electronics are fully compliant with the IEEE802.11 standard, delivering data at 11Mbps. Versions are available in PCMCIA type 11 and PCI formats with a wide choice of antenna...

Oakbase.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Oakbase has introduced Air MagicTM wireless headset, the first wireless headset for the cellular phone market. It features four hour battery life, with a spare on-charge in the base station. Automatic noise cancelling microphone, a weight of...

Mitec Telecommunications.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... ConteXt ARW is a unique tool for presentation of real equipment alarm data on the web. Context is designed to provide easy access to customer and site-specific alarm data. The open design allows retrieval of data from all SQL servers. The...