Telecommunications (International Edition) articles from July 2001

Telecommunications (International Edition) archives from July 2001

Where is the 'G' force?(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Stephen McClelland The industry should have known better than to hype next-generation markets before they were even in sight. The sun may be shining in the northern hemisphere, but wireless executives around the world are very much...

The cost of m-commerce.(mobile commerce)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... GLOBAL -- M-commerce is supposed to revolutionise the way consumers pay for goods and services, but how will this new world work? According to research from Nokia Networks -- focusing on m-commerce services (4Q 2000 and 1Q 2001) in the UK,...

Carrier1 confident, despite market downturn.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... EUROPE -- At a recent annual investor meeting in London, Carrier1, a European provider of end-to-end internet, voice, bandwidth, data centre and access solutions, was upbeat about its market opportunity, future objectives and the factors for...

Handset sales on course for 500 million.(for mobile telephones)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Worldwide mobile phone sell-through sales reached 96.7 million units in the first quarter of 2001 and the market remains on pace for worldwide mobile terminal sales of as many as 500 million Units by the end of this year, according to...

CDMA subscriber growth.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has reported that the number of code division multiple access (CDMA) subscribers has grown by 58 per cent in 12 months, reaching 90 million global subscribers by March 2001. The CDG also says that the...

Japanese lessons for GSM operators.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... BERLIN - Motorola held its fifth annual get-together for its customers at the Maritim Pro Arte Hotel in Berlin last month. And the message from the US vendor was that GSM operators should start thinking less about technology and more about...

RegTP opens the door for 3G cost savings.(germany's regulators allow cost sharing)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... EUROPE - Following last year's consolidation, the mobile industry is facing another wave of tie-ups and possible takeovers. This time the motive is not expansion, but saving costs. The catalyst for the latest round of alliances among mobile...

Shadow cast over 2G licence award.(Esat Telecom PLC's Denis O'Brien investigated over secret payments)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... IRELAND -- A judicial tribunal in the Irish Republic is examining how the country's second mobile phone licence was awarded six years ago, amid allegations of financial links between the head of the consortium which won it and the government...

3G2001 internet conference.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Existing only on the internet, 3G2001 is a virtual business-to-business event for the mobile communications industry, focusing on the development, regulation and application of 3G mobile systems. 3G2001 is aimed at attracting members of the 3G...

C&W acquires Digital Island.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Cable and Wireless (C&W) and Digital Island (provider of managed internet services for business customers) have annaunced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement. C&W will offer to acquire all the outstanding shares of Digital...

BT Cellnet extends GPRS with BlackBerry.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... BT Cellnet has announced that corporate customers can now order the BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution. The operator says that BlackBerry will enable users to be always connected' to their business account and to also receive, read and respond...

EUROPE.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... At a time when most wholesale bandwidth providers are talking about enhanced services as a way to stand out from the crowd, Laurent Grimaldi, president and CEO of Nets, is beating a different drum. His view is not to digress into such areas as...

Touchdown for public access WLANs.(wireless internet access)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Airports and hotels will be hotspots for high-speed mobile internet access traffic. But it is public access rather than 3G, which have arrived first. A major challenge for mobile operators today is how to satisfy the rapidly growing demand...

Standing out from the hosting crowd.(web hosting)
July 1, 2001... Offering a compelling service will be the ultimate difference between long-term success and failure for web hosters. Web hosting is the business of housing, serving and maintaining files for one or more web sites within an internet data...

Bluetooth ready for battle.
July 1, 2001... Bluetooth technology has not been as dominant as the Viking king, Harald II, it was named after. As standards are ratified and production increases, does bluetooth have the strength to battle for market share? Launched in 1994 by Ericsson,...

Frame relay lives on.
July 1, 2001... Despite the emergence of IP-based VPNs, frame relay has still got plenty of life left in it. Frame relay is a packet-based layer 2 protocol for the transmission of data across enterprise WANs. Initially designed for 'bursty' data...

IP VPNs: migration by integration.(Internet Protocal Virtual Private Networks)
July 1, 2001... IP VPNs provide flexible connectivity but the QoS advantages of existing networking technologies like ATM cannot be ignored. A hybrid network of both old and new will be the best solution towards migration to IP VPNs. Most enterprises now...

Great expectations for 3G.(third generation mobile communication)
July 1, 2001... 3G is synonymous with high cost and delay. However, it is important to remember that regardless of current negativity 36 still offers lucrative new business opportunities. Although the rollout of 3G networks is frequently compared with the...

Improving IP's best efforts.
July 1, 2001... If IP is to deliver quality of service, it will need ATM and MPLS for the forseeable future. Up until 1992, the Internet had been a quiet arena but with the advent of www, Netscape, IE, Java, MP3 and VoIP, it has been dramatically...

Smoothly does it.(upgrading mobile telecommunications)
July 1, 2001... Mobile operators need to migrate seamlessly from 2G to 3G networks as cost-effectively as possible. To achieve that, encapsulating TDM traffic into IP packets offers an opportunity to leverage legacy infrastructure while simultaneously...

The OSS architecture crossroads.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Silo-based OSS architecture has led the industry up a blind alley -- a truly integrated approach is now required. A system that automatically provisions new telecoms services is a Holy Grail for all operators. Faced with increasingly...

Are you billing in real-time?(m-commerce)
July 1, 2001... Without real-time rating engines, the value of m-commerce will be diminished. Wireless operators today are faced with the challenge of offering m-commerce services on-demand. Subscriber churn is on the rise and m-commerce services give...

SETTLER.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... EHPT EHPT has launched version 6.1 of its interconnect product, Settler. This latest release addresses the growing importance of packet-switched traffic, providing mobile operators with a solution to handle SMS inter-operator settlements....

VICTORIA SDH/ATM/IP.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Trend Communications Trend Communications has announced the extension of Victoria, the family of handheld instruments for transmission networks. Victoria SDH/ATM/IP (model 4080 0) offers -- in one instrument -- physical level and ATM level...

XTNDCONNECT SERVER.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Extended Systems XTNDConnect Server is a server-based solution that synchronises and manages information so that it can be accessed at any time, from any location, from any mobile device. According to Extended Systems, 'it is the only...

VOICE OVER PACKET (VoP) SOLUTION.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Hughes Software Systems (HSS) and Adax HSS and Adax have introduced a single product source for 3G and VoP infrastructure. The solution has HSS signaling stacks (M3UA and MTP3B) integrated with Adax protocol controller boards for VoP and...