Industry Announcements
Agilent Technologies Announces Manufacturing Test Support for WiMAX(tm) Devices Based on Sequans Wave 2 Chipset.
Agilent Technologies Announces Manufacturing Test Support for WiMAX(tm) Devices Based on Sequans Wave 2 Chipset. The Agilent Chipset Control Software is included with the Agilent One-Box Wireless Networking Test Set, for WiMAX devices based on the Sequans SQN1130 Wave 2 chipset. The combination creates an extremely fast, accurate and stable measurement solution that enables highly optimized WiMAX chipset calibration and verification for volume production testing.
The future of mobile handsets: key markets and trends
The worldwide market change towards higher data-rate networks and associated handset availability has meant that, by 2012, 'super 3G' devices will become the largest selling handset type, according to Informa Telecoms & Media. It reveals that while the rate of overall worldwide mobile handset growth will slow from 2008, super 3G devices will account for 35.8% of all handset sales in 2012, up from only 1.8% in 2007...
Agilent Technologies and Anite Announce First-to-Market LTE UE Protocol Tester with Development Toolset Based on Agilent's New LTE UE Test Platform
Agilent Technologies and Anite announce first-to-market LTE UE protocol tester with development toolset based on Agilent's new LTE UE test platform. The first product in a planned portfolio of 3GPP LTE R&D test products developed on Agilent's new E6620A LTE UE test platform. The Anite SAT LTE Protocol Tester with Development Toolset was created as part of a partnership between Agilent and Anite, announced in November 2007. Featuring an impressive breadth and depth of features, this first-to-market SAT LTE Protocol Tester is ideal for engineers working in early protocol design of LTE mobile phones. Agilent's new LTE platform -- the E6620A Wireless Communications Test Set -- provides a powerful, common hardware platform and 3GPP-compliant protocol stack for building scalable test solutions across the LTE UE R&D lifecycle.
Agilent Technologies to Introduce First-to-Market 3GPP LTE Test Solutions at 2008 Mobile World Congress
Agilent will show its newest LTE test products, including the first-to-market LTE UE development test platform with real-time protocol development tools created in partnership with Anite plc. This LTE UE platform will help R&D engineers speed development of LTE UE design for next-generation mobile communications products. Agilent is a leader in the measurement industry and is fully committed to providing solutions for the entire LTE development lifecycle from early protocol development through conformance test...
Mobile World Congress 2008 as a mirror of changes in the mobile telecommunications industry
The world of mobile telecommunications is changing steadily and rapidly. It seems that allefforts of the large army of telecommunication operators were focused on increasing thesubscriber base not so long ago. Today, the industry is being consolidated. The operatorsare amalgamated and they become a part of telecommunication holding companies. Voicetraffic falls in price and new opportunities of increasing ARPU have to be found.
Mobile advertising: what is the way to reduce the gap between providing information and taking an action?
The gap between providing information and taking an action is the misfortune of modern advertising. Intensive information noise brings all marketing efforts to naught. A person just forgets the advertising communication in a few seconds. Is there away out...
Mobile advertising - mass mailing or individual approach?
Today there are two fundamentally different approaches to implementation of mobile advertising: the primitive and the effective. What are the differences between them...
CBOSS in Germany
MVNECO GmbH, a German mobile virtual network enabler, has selected CBOSS Corporation for the full outsourcing and maintenance of its end-to-end convergent industrial IT infrastructure...
BRAVO Goes Live with Hybrid Accounts from CBOSS
BRAVO can now offer hybrid accounts on the basis of the convergent solution from CBOSS.
BRAVO, the first and only specialized iDEN service provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia can now offer hybrid accounts on the basis of the convergent solution from CBOSS. The enhanced solution now serves to strengthen the loyalty of Bravo?s business customers and improve the company?s profit margins...
CBOSS Technologies Enable 3G Services in GEOCELL
GEOCELL, the leading GSM operator of Georgia, launched 3G services based on the convergent solution from CBOSS. Striving to meet ever growing market requirements and increase customer base in the highly competitive environment, GEOCELL has expanded its service portfolio with innovative 3G services. The launch of GEOCELL's 3G network in 2006 did not require any investment in the IT infrastructure due to the convergent CBOSS solution providing full-scale support of next generation networks...
CBOSS in Afghanistan
A new CDMA network operator WaselTelecom is starting to provide mobile, _xed-wireless and data services in the North of Afghanistan. The Afghan telecommunications market is highly competitive and includes four GSM players and one national _xed and CDMA network operator AfghanTelecom...
Spice Nepal Scales Up CBOSS Solution to Manage Subscriber Growth
Spice Nepal Private Ltd. (SNPL), a Nepalese GSM network operator, has contracted CBOSS Corporation to upgrade its end-to-end convergent IT CBOSS solution just after 1,5 years of successful operation...
CBOSS Integrates Billing Systems of Yeniseytelecom and STeK GSM
CBOSS Corporation has successfully integrated the billing systems of Yeniseytelecom and STeK GSM. The integration was performed in line with the business development strategy of Yeniseytelecom and involved the uni_cation of di_erent currencies used by the telecoms' billing systems. The complex project also featured various services including technological consulting, business process reengineering, system integration, etc...
Five defining traits of mobile open source
Open source software is one of the most hyped, misunderstood, feared and high impact phenomena in the software industry today. In the last two years, open source has been making a significant impact on the mobile industry. Led by Motorola, NEC, Panasonic and Samsung, several handset OEMs and ODMs have released Linux handsets, while open source
Activating the Idle Screen: Uncharted Territory
Since the beginning of the decade, operator investments have focused mostly on one thing: building bigger, better, faster networks. Investments in 2.5G, 3G and now 3.5G networks across the globe...
Converged Video Service Provisioning
How service providers can provision basic IP video services - broadcast TV and video on demand (VOD). Provisioning processes and systems are a vital component to offering cost-effective IP Video Services...
Geospatial Planning & Engineering
The network planning market was originally dominated by generic software such as desktop publishing software and CAD that was not specifically built for network design, let alone telecoms network design...
Seamless Mobility
Seamless mobility is a concept that has been receiving a great deal of interest lately. It offers the ability for users to roam between domains and networks without them being aware of the underlying...
IT Arm Helps Nokia build Enterprise Muscle
Business Infrastructure is Nokia's internal Information Technology (IT) arm. It is also at the forefront of Nokia's bid to gain credibility as a contender in the mobile enterprise space...
Discovering mobile services - A new perspective
The mobile and content industry is on the cusp of fundamental change, with consumers increasingly becoming the decisive players in the value chain. While voice revenues will remain the primary...
High Capacity SIMs
This paper analyses the market, the promising applications for high-capacity SIMs and the new business opportunities which they open up. It also present the challenges lying ahead for high capacity SIM...
