Mobile vendor strategies - 5/11/05

Nortel/ LG and Softbank have trialled WiMAX/ HSDPA interoperability and succeeded transmitting simultaneous high speed streams (VOIP, multimedia and video).

Nokia unveiled its strategy in push e-mail and directly targets to displace RIM from its leading position before 2008. Nokia announced its own solution, called Nokia Business Center. NBC is an open standard solution, universal Java-based and using a wide range of handsets.

NEC and Ericsson separately tested their respective HSDPA solutions with Vodafone KK in Japan.