Alltel, the nation’s largest wireless network operator, and MobiTV, mobile television and digital radio service provider, announced today that they have joined forces. MobiTV will offer live portable television broadcasts and special “made for mobile” content to wireless customers starting Monday. Initially, the service will be rolled out to customers with the new […]

The world’s third largest mobile phone manufacturer, Samsung, held on to its second place position in North American mobile phone sales according to Chosunibo. Samsung was flanked by Motorola to the top and LG to the south. It will be interesting to see how Samsung’s current offerings, like the awesesome i730, and its […]

Building on the success of the Sony K800 mobile phone, Sony/Ericsson is releasing a more cost-effective 3G phone, the K600i. Packing a VGA-quality camera mounted on the front of the unit for video calling. Yes, video calling. It is only a matter of time now before we here in the states are able to […]

In an article on Wireless Design Asia, I read the findings of a recent Motorola HSDPA trial conducted in Europe. Motorola concluded three items that are crucial to a successful rollout of HSDPA to provide “mobile broadband”.
First, sufficient processing power is needed. Latency can become a big problem when switching users from a […]

In more 3G HSDPA news this week, Ericsson successfully upgraded Tokyo’s Vodafone commercial network to support HSDPA. The software and hardware upgrades that were implemented support downstream rates of up to 3.6Mbps and 384Kbps up. Unfortunately, for the Vodafone customers in central Tokyo, the HSDPA upgrade has not been activated for commercial use. […]

Looks like the boys and girls “over the pond” will be getting an upgraded HSDPA across the national O2 network by Q3 of 2006, according to the UK Register. Cingular has announced that they will be doing a similar upgrade to their 3G network capabilities here in the US using HSDPA (High Speed Data […]

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