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CDMA survey: new figures were published by the CDMA Development Group. Total number of CDMA subscribers rose to 256.6m and this number is expected to grow to 300m by year-end. 168 m are currently using CDMA 2000 networks (3G technology from 1x to EV-DO)....
Europe:Two recent EU Commission decisions are likely to change the European telecom landscape. The first one is the announcement of limited regulation on VOIP. Alain Van Gaever, the EU's head of regulation for VOIP, announced at the VON Europe Conference,...
WiMAX interoperability: First WiMAX is an IEE standard which defines the use of licensed and unlicensed spectrum bands. It is a a grown-up version of the successful Wi-Fi standard, but differentiate from it by using licensed and unlicensed operations,...
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E911 service in the US : FCC decided to ask VOIP service providers to enable 911 services in next 4 months. It is the first regulation VOIP SPs have to apply, and of course the impact will be to make the service more expensive. VOIP SPs cannot make 911...
New telecom tax in sight in the US? The cities of Baltimore and Montgomery have established a new $3.5/mo tax on mobile users!! This is in addition of current $8.75 taxes (both fed and state) on each mobile contract. As US cities are not allowed to raise...
3G/ EDGE : There are 71 commercial 3G WCDMA networks in 33 countries, up from 60 and 28 respectively at the end of last year. On the terminal side, there are 166 WCDMA phones, up from 58 at the end of 2004.On the EDGE side, there are 84 networks in commercial...
Mobile risk? According to a new Swedish report, brain tumors are three times more likely in rural areas. In the past few years, a debate opened on mobile radiation impact on human health, without any strong conclusion. Pros and cons alternatively revealed...
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): what was the hot topic in Cannes this year made an important step towards interworking, on behalf of the GSM Association (GSMA). All actors in the IMS sphere - network operators, infrastructure and device vendors, and long...
3G: According to Telegeography, 3G accounted for less than 30m users in 2004, and should be over 60m in 2005.But in fact, 3G will only account for a tiny percentage of wireless users for a while. In early-adopter countries (Japan, S th Korea), penetration...
