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Mobility

First TD-LTE Mobile Device Certified

October 13, 2011 Mobility

The E398s-81, a USB dongle from Huawei Technologies, became the first TD-LTE device to achieve GCF Certification during September 2011. The device, which has been certified for use in Band 38 (2570-2620 MHz), is being used in the large scale trials of TD-LTE technology that are currently being conducted in China. GCF, the Global Certification [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent Testing LTE Serving Gateway

May 18, 2011 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Sunnyvale, Calif. – May 17, 2011 – A live demonstration this week at TIA 2011 in Dallas, Texas will showcase how the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR) Mobile Gateway performs under the most demanding conditions in a 4G/LTE environment while maintaining the highest Quality of Service (QoS), even for bandwidth intensive video applications. Using Landslide [...]

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Augmented Reality Remaking the SmartPhone Experience

April 18, 2011 Mobility

By Bill Bulkeley, Cisco When the third Harry Potter book appeared in 1999, one of the startling bits of wizardry at Hogwarts was a magical map that labeled people walking around the school and showed hidden passages and how to get into them. Today, the wizards developing apps for smart phones are doing similar things [...]

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AT&T and Road America Rolls Out New Location-Based Emergency Roadside Assistance Offering

April 18, 2011 Mobility

Mobile location technology is playing a new role in the evolution of emergency roadside assistance, thanks to an innovative location-based solution developed by AT&T and Road America, a leading roadside assistance service provider. Previously, most drivers needed to have GPS units installed in their cars to be located in the event of an accident or [...]

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AT&T, T-Mobile to file with FCC around April 21

April 15, 2011 AT&T News ( NYSE:T )

AT&T and T-Mobile USA plan to file paperwork about their planned merger with the Federal Communications Commission next week. “We plan to file our public interest statement at the FCC around April 21,” AT&T’s Michael Balmoris said in an email on Thursday. AT&T’s $39 billion bid to buy Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Mobile USA will also [...]

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Why telcos must learn from customer experience success stories in the banking and airline industries in order to succeed.

April 15, 2011 emerging markets

International telecoms companies have been surprisingly resilient in the face of the global economic crisis. Nonetheless, operators must reshape their businesses and put the customer first in order to retain customer loyalty and brand trust, according to at least one industry expert. “The customer is king, more so than they’ve ever been before,” says Michael [...]

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SI Wireless Selects Movius Voice Messaging Solution

April 15, 2011 Mobility

Movius Interactive Corporation has been selected to provide SI Wireless with its comprehensive voice messaging solution as part of a major initiative to bring advanced communications to rural areas across the US. SI Wireless is a start-up CDMA carrier offering the latest next-generation voice and data services to regional areas across Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois. [...]

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Google LTE or Self Defence? Google offering $900m for Nortel’s Patent Portfolio

April 12, 2011 Mobility

Google has offered $900m for Nortel’s patent portfolio. Google claims it does so to protect it’s own patent claims and their Android strategy sure has a play in this. Nortel finds Google’s offer high enough, but there is still time for other parties to bid higher, though we find that not too likely. According to [...]

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China Mobile selects Alcatel-Lucent for world’s largest 4G TD-LTE end-to-end trial network

March 24, 2011 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:ALU ) has been selected by China Mobile to participate to the world’s largest 4G TD-LTE trial network deployment in China. This qualification follows successful completion of various interoperability tests which started from January 2010 as required by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information (MIIT) and China Mobile. Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai [...]

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