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Mobility

World’s first call over LTE network (Long Term Evolution)

September 2, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) achieved an industry first by successfully completing a data call using a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband network operating at Band 14 , the spectrum earmarked for public safety agencies in the United States. The call demonstrates the readiness of the network to support current public safety applications [...]

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OpenPlug Acquired by Alcatel-Lucent

September 1, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has acquired the mobile software and applications development tools vendor OpenPlug. By acquiring OpenPlug, ALU deepens its role in the applications space by delivering, as part of its integrated suite of developer tools, a platform where application developers can write an application once, which will then be translated to [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent remains the leader in the CDMA space

August 10, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent remains the leader in the CDMA space according to Dell’Oro’s latest Mobility Infrastructure report. Not only does Dell’Oro place Alcatel-Lucent as the historical leader in CDMA (leading in CDMA revenues since 3Q’01), the industry analyst firm also acknowledges that Alcatel-Lucent has reinforced its number one position on a quarterly basis, growing its market share [...]

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Roaming Without Fear discussed at NGT EU summit

July 8, 2010 Mobility

As of the 1st July the new European Cap, which was introduced to cut the cost of using a mobile phone abroad, has now came into effect. Telecoms executives from across Europe were keen to discuss the implementations of the new bill and an ever growing ‘customer is king ‘attitude at the NGT EU summit [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent new Mobile Wallet Service

March 23, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) takes a step closer to replacing the physical wallet by announcing the Mobile Wallet Service (MWS), a complete solution that places the mobile operator in the center of the emerging mobile payment equation. Unique in the industry, MWS leverages an operator’s trusted network to deliver consumer applications such as [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent introduces “small cell” offering (femtocell)

February 16, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the availability of a “small cell” (femtocell) wireless solution designed specifically to address the needs of enterprise customers. The enterprise small cell offering helps service providers better serve valuable customers inside of buildings that typically suffer from poor wireless voice and data coverage. Alcatel-Lucent’s small cell offering [...]

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First Validated Test Cases for LTE approved by Global Certification Forum

February 12, 2010 Mobility

The first test cases required for an LTE device certification scheme have been validated and approved by GCF, the Global Certification Forum. Designed to give operators confidence in the interoperability of LTE devices across different networks, GCF’s Certification scheme will embrace both FDD and TDD versions of LTE. Bringing the sophisticated new technology of LTE [...]

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Vodafone & Alcatel-Lucent first “green” mobile base station in Qatar

January 20, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Vodafone Qatar and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the deployment of the first hybrid powered Base Station in Qatar, using an integration of solar and wind energy. This initiative is part of a wider green technology program led by Vodafone Group to deploy green energy sources in all of its affiliates worldwide. [...]

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Mobile Voice and Data Service launched by Mitel Networks

January 19, 2010 Mitel News

Mitel today announced the launch of Mitel Mobile, a wireless voice and data service designed for corporate customers. The service is fully integrated with Mitel’s leading unified communications and collaboration (UCC) applications and offers business customers the ability to work with a single vendor for all of their customer premise, wireline, wireless, voice, and data [...]

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