Telecommunications (International Edition) articles from September 2001

Telecommunications (International Edition) archives from September 2001

Do the numbers add up?(job losses)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... "If sustained job losses continue to take place, then companies must be rapidly changing their product and core strategies." Companies folding, jobs going. Telecom is in a recession, and the grim numbers continue to increase. With an...

No space for mobile satellite?(mobile satellite services)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... Looking at the mobile satellite services (MSS) market today, most companies are facing turbulent times. The Iridium satellite phone was declared bankrupt last year, while fellow MSS company, New ICO, filed for bankruptcy protection in August...

ISP survival dependent on strong customer relationships.(internet service provider)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Within an industry that expects a third of its peers to fold within the next 18 months, internet service providers (ISPs) will have to focus on solid customer relationships to ensure survival. "Due to local loop unbundling, the odds are...

Bandwidth is not a commodity.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... There's a school of thought within the telecoms industry that bandwidth can be bought and sold as a commodity (like oil or sugar) to any interested party. However, a growing number of industry observers claim that it's wrong to think of...

Roaming ahead.(GPRS roaming exchanges)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... The first peering point for GPRS in Europe -- the Amsterdam peering exchange -- has been launched with the support of 17 of the 22 currently listed GRX providers. It enables the interconnection of their individual GRXs (GPRS roaming exchanges)...

Orange's LBS gathers momentum.(location-based services)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Orange's UK location-based services (LBS) have been given a boost following the signing of a ma jar contract with SignalSoft, a developer of an LBS software suite that will enable the delivery of LBS WAP, SMS and interactive voice platforms....

Global Crossing serves Microsoft.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Global Crossing has entered into a two-year broadband services contract with Microsoft where it will interconnect nine of the software provider's European hubs. The solutions enabler says that the network will carry Microsoft's day-to-day...

Italtel receives award.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Italtel, a provider for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has been presented by Cisco Systems with the 'Solution Partner of the Year' award. This was due to its multi-service solutions (iMSS) product which the company says enables fixed and...

Moving up the value chain.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Wholesale is better than no sale. That's the view of most telcos in these cash-strapped days, even if it does carry the risk of giving a helping hand to would-be rivals. And one company making a success out of this philosophy is BT...

Where is the nearest LBS provider?
September 1, 2001... After a lot of talk and hype from analysts and vendors, are European mobile operators finally ready to offer a suite of location-based services to their customers? If the flurry of deals announced in recent months is anything to go by, it...

Take-off for BWA?(broadband wireless access)
September 1, 2001... The debate surrounding broadband access technologies has been dominated by DSL and cable modems. As operators begin to roll out services using these access methods, there is a danger that the business model for BWA (broadband wireless access)...

It's a whole new ball game.
September 1, 2001... A new report titled Next Generation Mobile: The Real Challenges of 3G by Deloitte Consulting, states that mobile operators need to look beyond simply managing the financial risks of investment in 3G licences and network infrastructure. The...

Sharing the 3G burden.(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... As UMTS rollout takes its first tentative steps in western Europe, would-be 3G operators stand face-to-face with a double headed deployment dragon -- limited base station site availability in urban areas, coupled with increasing pressure to...

The text generation.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The mass-market acceptance of SMS has presented network operators and their partners with tremendous opportunities to build customer loyalty and generate additional revenue streams through the development of value-added services built upon SMS...

You can't do everything.
September 1, 2001... Mobile operators are facing a number of discontinuities as they move from the relatively stable voice-driven world of 2G operations and into a world of 3G content and applications. Soon they will be managing a portfolio of services and...

VSATs in perspective.
September 1, 2001... Interactive VSAT (very small aperture terminal) systems have been an accepted, albeit niche, solution in the enterprise networking market for more than 15 years now. First launched in 1985, the technology has evolved through several huge...

3G testing gets serious.
September 1, 2001... The best-known slogan of the wireless world - 'connecting people' -- describes one of the main motivations to deploy third generation (3G) networks. Users wont to communicate with others in different formats, independent of time zone and...

Billing the 3G extravaganza.
September 1, 2001... General packet radio services (GPRS) technology, deployed in global systems for mobile (GSM) networks, while greatly enhancing the services available to end-users through wireless data, is still merely a test-bed for the universal mobile...

New era for Japan.
September 1, 2001... The phenomenon of NTT DoCoMo's mode provides a glimpse of the future to come, and builds the case for strategy differentiation as the future competitive tool in the Japanese telecoms market. i-mode's success has been a pure strategic...

PREPAID WIRELESS ROAMING.
September 1, 2001... Unpaid Systems Unpaid Systems has released its prepaid wireless roaming service. Whereas traditional call-back services route an end-user's outgoing calls back to his home network far call control and rating, Unpaid rates prepaid roaming...

130MHz DIGITAL-ANALOGUE CONVERTORS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Intersil Intersil has launched its next-generation series of CommLink digital-to-analogue-convertors (DACs) specifically designed to support the development of high-performance wireless products. Applications include cellular base...

WIRELESS LAN MODULE.
September 1, 2001... Xircom The Xircom wireless LAN module for the Palm m500 series handheld devices is the first WLAN product for the series. The module snaps onto the back of the handheld device and utilises plug-and-play software. Providing Palm m500 series...

WA3050.(Sagem)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... Sagem Sagem has introduced the WA3050 which combines the qualities of a WAP phone with a pocket PC. Equipped with the Strong Arm processor (9206MHz) and an expandable memory (16Mb), the WA3050 offers a range of software, such as Pocket...

SUA SIGNALLING SOFTWARE.(Trillium Digital Systems user adaptation layer software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... Trillium Digital Systems Trillium Digital Systems has added the new signalling connection control part (SCCP) user adaptation layer (SUA) software to its portfolio of signalling system 7 (SS7)-over-IP (SIGTRAN) solutions to allow telecoms...