Ericsson Inks GSM/WCDMA Deal
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Ericsson has inked a supply contract with Poland&#39;s Polkomtel to deliver GSM, EDGE and wideband-CDMA equipment. The Polish operator has called on Ericsson to implement 2G and 3G network elements
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(InfoWorld) - A group of mobile phone operators and handset vendors is developing a 3G (third-generation) mobile phone platform that combines many standard hardware and software components in an effort to reduce phone development time and costs. NTT DoCoMo, Renesas Technology, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson Mobile CommunicationsÂ will jointly develop the platform that will support HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) and W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) as well as GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution). Phones that use the new platform could become available worldwide and at a lower cost than other 3G handsets. In addition to the communications support, the platform will include a baseband processor, an application processor with multimedia functionality and a reference design including audio and power supply. It will also incorporate an operating system, with Symbian being the first supported. The companies expect to complete development of the platform in the second quarter 2008. The initiative is the third conducted by some of the companies involved. The first platform supported W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS and the second, still in development, incorporates additional software components. By joining forces to develop such a platform, the phone manufacturers don't have to individually build components that are common across all the phones. That means they can reduce development time and cost and focus instead on creating unique features for their phones. Renesas will sell the platform worldwide, even though most of the partners are in Japan.
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Alltel Corp. on Tuesday said it has completed its $144 million summer deal with US Cellular and TDS Telecom, only days after announcing it plans to acquire wireless properties
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Ericsson has been awarded an $805m contract by Guangdong Mobile Communication Corporation Limited (Guangdong Mobile, a whole-owned subsidiary of China Mobile HK Holdings, to expand its GSM network in Guangdong Province, China.
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Telstra announced that it had chosen Ericsson Australia as the vendor to develop its 3GSM mobile capacity for up to the next five years.
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Ericsson ERICb.ST said on Thursday   it had won a contract from Taiwan's FarEasTone 4904.TW to   upgrade its 3G network and provide technology for multimedia   offerings such as music and video on phones.
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By Rozana Sani  SWEDISH telecommunications equipment provider Ericsson is all set to tap into the opportunities arising from the increasing level of telecom services activity in all regions of the world.
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Wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson said Monday it has received a contract worth about $150 million US (122.4 million euros ) from Shandong Mobile Communication Co.
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Telecommunications equipment  maker Ericsson AB  will buy data networking  equipment vendor Redback Networks Inc.  for $2.1  billion in cash, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday that it has agreed to a cross-licensing agreement on patents with Sweden's LM Ericsson in wireless communications technology.
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T-Mobile has signed an agreement with six international wireless telephony companies to simplify roaming and billing arrangements for customers using Wi-Fi around the world.
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InfoWorld - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications will get its GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) mobile phones made in India by contract manufacturers, starting with entry-level color phones and mid-level phones with music.
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Telecommunication equipment maker Telefon AB LM Ericsson said Monday it received a $805 million (euro609.3 million) contract from Guangdong Mobile Communication Corp.
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(InfoWorld) - T-Mobile USA Inc. is moving into 3G (third-generation) mobile services with Nokia Corp. and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson as major equipment suppliers. The fourth-largest U.S. mobile operator is the last of the major operators to deploy 3G but secured a big chunk of radio spectrum in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's AWS (Advanced Wireless Services) auction in September. It bid almost US$4.2 billion for 120 frequency licenses around the country. T-Mobile started rolling out its WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) network during this quarter and will continue it through 2007 and 2008, according to the company. In New York, the deployment is already half finished. Nokia will provide small, modular base stations called the Nokia Flexi WCDMA Base Station, making T-Mobile the first U.S. carrier to use them, Nokia said. The contract depends on T-Mobile completing its acquisition of the spectrum. WCDMA delivers an average downlink speed of about 400K bps (bits per second) and the Nokia Flexi base stations can be upgraded to support Nokia's HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) technology, according to Nokia spokeswoman Chantal Boeckman. HSPA includes both HSDPA (High-speed Downlink Packet Access) and HSUPA (High-speed Uplink Packet Access), with downlink speed as high as 14.4M bps and uplinks as fast as 5.8M bps, Nokia said. The company has already supplied HSPA gear to T-Mobile operators in Germany, the U.K. and the Netherlands. T-Mobile is a member of the T-Mobile International group, the mobile division of Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG. Meanwhile, Ericsson has signed on as T-Mobile's main radio provider in certain markets, including New York, and to provide services including network planning, installation and testing. That deal also relies on the carrier getting its new spectrum licenses.
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Telecom equipment maker Ericsson said  on Monday it would team up with Turner Broadcasting to develop  international mobile services.
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Multi-band, multi-mode Not for Samsung the simplicity of offering a phone with quad-band GSM support to allow the handset to be used all around the world. The South Korean giant today unveiled a device capable of connecting not only to GSM but also to CDMA and JCDMA networks.â¦
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Ericsson, the telecommunications equipment maker, will buy Redback Networks, a vendor of data networking equipment, for $2.1 billion in cash, the companies said on Tuesday.