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TTSL plans to launch GSM services by Jan-end (India)

  • January 6th, 2009
  • 5:56 am

Tata Teleservices Ltd. is all set to go for a domestic GSM launch by the end of January. TTSL said that new entrants to India’s already crowded GSM market will likely face challenges in gaining subscribers and market share. Tata’s Managing Director, Anil Sardana, said, the company is a long term player in a market which is adding more than 8 million users a month.

Tata Teleservices plans to use part of the funds raised from the sale of a 49% stake in its tower arm for its GSM operations, in which the company intends to invest about $2 billion, added Sardana.

“All equipment has been ordered for all circles. Transmission is ready for all circles. Orders have been placed with NSN (Nokia Siemens Networks), Huawei (Technologies Co.) and ZTE (Corp.), for core telecom equipment, and NEC (Corp) for transmission,” Sardana further said.

NEC and Telecom Italia sign a MOU for global business development (Italy)

  • September 12th, 2008
  • 10:54 am

NEC Corp agrees with Telecom Italia for cooperating on mutual development of global business, technologies and network improvement. The MOU between the two firms has details on how the partnership may enable the Telecom Italia Group to capitalise on NEC’s broadband & wireless network technologies to provide consumers with the latest advanced services. The MOU also adds how NEC, as a strategic partner of Telecom Italia, will conduct demonstrations, interoperability testing, roadmap development and product optimisation of broadband & wireless technologies and solutions at NEC’s Technical Excellence Centre to be established in Italy.

   

NTT DoCoMo selects NEC as Super 3G provider (Japan)

  • September 9th, 2008
  • 10:01 am

NTT DoCoMo selects NEC for providing core network EPC (Evolved Packet Core ) systems that support NTT DoCoMo’s Super 3G advanced mobile phone networks, and was already selected as Super 3G mobile base station and terminal provider.
According to the new order, NEC is in a position to become a total Super 3G system vendor that provides NTT DoCoMo with communications infrastructure and terminals.

   

Wireless companies collaborate on LTE licensing

  • April 15th, 2008
  • 12:01 pm

Nokia Siemens, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, others agree on royalty rates for LTE-equipped products.
A number of the world’s biggest equipment vendors Monday announced they are working together to establish licensing standards for 3G LTE patents.  

Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, NEC, NextWave Wireless, plus handset vendors Nokia and Sony Ericsson said they are hoping to encourage early adoption of the mobile broadband technology by licensing intellectual property rights (IPR) on a fair and reasonable basis.

This means royalty rates will be based on the licensors’ proportional share of the IPR for each type of product.

“The patent licensing market requires basic rules in order to properly develop and function,” said Ilka Rahnasto, vice president of intellectual property rights at Nokia, in a statement.

“Today’s announcement is a step towards establishing more predictable and transparent licensing costs in a manner that enables faster adoption of new technologies,” he said.

For example, all the companies have agreed that a reasonable aggregate royalty rate for LTE essential IPR in mobile handsets is set at less than 10% of the sale price.

For computers embedded with LTE technology, the companies said they have agreed on a single-digit dollar amount as the maximum aggregate royalty level.

“Today’s devices contain a multitude of different technologies. To ensure all patent holders are treated fairly without stifling the market, it would be preferable for patent holders to offer reasonable terms,” commented Ken Stanwood, executive vice president of technology and standards, NextWave Wireless.

Also, China Mobile in February gave LTE a further boost when it was reported that it will test the technology and back it as the flagship standard for next generation mobile networks.

As of February China Mobile had 384.35 million subscribers.

However, despite Monday’s announcement, coupled with some predictions of widespread LTE network deployments by as early as 2009, external factors could delay the rollout and therefore up-take of LTE, according to Aircom CEO Margaret Rice-Jones.

   

 

O2 announces femtocell trials with NEC, Ubiquisys in UK

  • February 11th, 2008
  • 12:49 pm

Telefonica O2 Europe has announced live femtocell experience trials in the UK in partnership with NEC and Ubiquisys, targeting a commercial launch of the technology by early 2009. The UK’s trial of femtocell technology has begun an initial period of live testing in February. If successful, the trial will be rolled out in greater numbers across the UK in the summer. NEC has supplied an integrated service centred around Ubiquisys ZoneGate femtocells. Femtocells are designed to improve indoor 3G mobile-broadband coverage by re-routing data from mobile networks and onto wired DSL connections, building mobile coverage from the inside out. O2 also launched trials in the Czech Republic this month, on the back of successful tests that have been carried out in Madrid by Telefonica since last year.

   

Wind orders wireless access platform (Italy)

  • January 21st, 2008
  • 5:52 am

Cellular News reports that Japanese suppliers NEC and Sumitomo Corp. have signed a framework contract with Italian mobile phone operator Wind for the supply of NEC’s PASOLINK NEO point-to-point wireless access systems. The PASOLINK NEO is able to handle different transmission speeds and interfaces over the same platform, making it more flexible than other microwave access products and allowing easier and more cost efficient expansion of networks when operators need to increase capacity. ‘NEC has been chosen by Wind based on the quality and resilience of the equipment, and we are looking forward for a successful implementation’, said Philip Tohme, Wind’s Chief Technology Officer.

   

 

NEC Philips Unified Solutions eyes growth in EMEA

  • June 20th, 2007
  • 10:24 am

Enterprise communications company NEC Philips Unified Solutions has announced its growth strategy for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) market. It is organising itself to perform two main roles: that of solutions provider and that of communications equipment vendor. Ad Ketelaars, CEO of NEC Philips Unified Solutions, does not rule out mergers or acquisitions to implement this new growth strategy. The Communications Equipment Vendor Division will serve EMEA with NEC’s expanding global portfolio of systems and applications. The Solutions Division will address enterprise customers directly with a wide portfolio of Unified Communications solutions and IT services.

(EMEA)

   

FASTTAKES: Hutchison, Essar, Satyam Computer

  • May 31st, 2007
  • 10:33 am

Hutchison Telecom signs a deal to use NEC’s mobile Internet platform for Hutchison’s i-mode service in Hong Kong. The NEC platform is an integrated solution composed of subsystems such as gateways, mail server systems and portal systems which incorporate multi-operator functions, NEC said.

Essar Group discloses that it is planning to launch mobile services in Cambodia as part of a joint venture. The firm said however that some issues still have to be “sorted out,” like the allocation of spectrum, and license application.

Satyam Computer and Oracle Asia Pacific announce a strategic alliance that will help enterprises in the Asia Pacific region jumpstart business intelligence (BI) implementations. According to industry analyst, the market for BI in Asia platform market is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 15.6%.