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...Coated with a silver ink organised in crystalline snowflakes, the shapes block certain electromagnetic frequencies in the 2.45-5.5 GHz range (so that’s the GSM and UMTS used by mobiles and all WiFi frequencies...
...The Pre is only available in the US from Sprint Nextel but a version that will run on Europe’s GSM/UMTS networks is expected soon....
...The company, the last of the major US mobile carriers to rollout a 3G network, plans to extend the service to 20 to 25 other major US markets by the end of the year....
...For operators, it is less expensive to run data services over HSPA than it is over UMTS....
...Its business model is to partner with internet service providers supplying them with its proprietary base stations and handsets....
...But Nortel’s UMTS business was lossmaking....
...“Our UMTS access business lacks the scale and momentum needed to become profitable.”...
...They say the service might be introduced in late 2007, maybe, and only if regulators approve it....
...Only now, with new licenses in its portfolio, can the company invest $2.7bn over 3 years to put new nationwide wireless broadband (UMTS/HSPDA) service in place....
...But this is what mobile internet users face as they wade through ever-faster options that include GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA and soon HSUPA....
...“Mobile WiMAX-based services will create a new paradigm shift in wireless services and improve consumer lifestyles.”...
...It also means that our deployment will be HSDPA-ready and can easily compliment our UMTS rollout....
...It also wrote off €89m relating to the cost of acquiring a UMTS license in Italy. Telefónica Móviles provided the bulk of group revenues and profits....
...The first mobile phones were comparatively simple devices: they used one radio network to carry one service, voice....
...Qualcomm’s chipsets can be found in a wide range of UMTS 3G devices, including mobile data cards but also in a growing number of phones....
...A wideband version of the technology, W-CDMA, is incorporated in the international UMTS standard for 3G services....
...“First, we have a product portfolio that is very long range, which goes from fixed to mobile and to value added services and this also ensures that we are competitive....
...KPN has shed several thousand posts in recent years to recover from a financial crisis triggered by a costly investment in UMTS....
...Poland's three existing mobile operators want to ensure that any UMTS auction winner be forced to pay at least ?650m ($860m), the same amount they had to pay....
...“For the nomadic worker, WiFi and 3G are just different ways to accessing corporate data,” says Chris Solbe, spokesman for the UMTS forum, which represents 3G operators....
...In Europe and Asia where GSM-based networks dominate, the best option is probably a multimode UMTS/GPRS/GSM card....
...But operators, led by BT in the UK, are working at deploying the new technology, which is likely to offer consumers new services and cheaper voice calls....
...CosmOTE has also launched commercial operations in Athens of its 3G service, using UMTS technology, which will be made available to members of the Olympic family....
...Third-generation UMTS handsets will be on sale in Germany next week, and in the Netherlands soon after. KPN had no current merger or acquisition plans, he added....
...In the second quarter of this year, LG enjoyed 21.4 per cent of the market for UMTS phones the type needed for 3G services in most parts of the world. Only NEC of Japan, with 30.8 per cent, sold more....
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