Motorola Mobility and Nextel Launch Motorola i867w in White (Brazil)
Motorola Industrial Ltd and Nextel launched a white version of the Motorola i867w smartphone with exclusive Push-to-Talk (PTT) technology, designed for people with style and a lot to communicate. The new Android-powered smartphone offers instant high-performance communication, mobile Web access and text and picture messaging.
As per the company, Wagner Mendonça, iDEN sales director, Motorola Mobility Brazil, said that the Motorola i867w has a differentiated design that combines elegance with rapid communication. Whether one chooses the i867 for work, play, or both, the Motorola i867 lets one manage it all with best-in-class PTT and Android mobile technology.
The device is packed with features including Wi-Fi, 3.1 inch touch-screen, MP3 Player, Bluetooth stereo technology, a 3.5 mm headphone jack and a 3 MP camera. Store images, videos and music on the included 2-gigabyte microSD HC memory card, or replace it with up to a 32 GB card, sold separately, to hold even more data.
More than 500,000 applications are available to browse and download on Google Play and the five customizable display screens let you access frequently used items rapidly. Users can also follow their social networks and use Google Mobile Services, including Google Maps with Navigation, Google Talk and Google Search right on the handset.
The Motorola i867w is commercialized with the Nextel Email application, enabling access to email accounts and messaging in real time. It enables up to ten personal email accounts and one corporate account with calendar. The handset features SWYPE for easy text entry and has two microphones with noise cancellation technology, allowing clearer conversations in noisy environments.
CDMA2000 Continues Expansion in Russia
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) (www.cdg.org) today announced that CDMA2000(r) is rapidly expanding across Russia, with up to 23 cdmaOne(tm) and 32 CDMA2000 operators serving more than 1 million subscribers across the Federation and growing at an accelerated rate of 37% per year.
Working closely with the Russian Federation, JSC Sviazinform and South Urals Cellular Telephone Company launched the first cdmaOneWLL network in Chelyabinsk in September of 1997. Since then, up to 23 cdmaOne operators have launched 2G communication services across the republic using the 800 MHz cellular band. In December 2002, Delta Telecom became the first, out of 57 NMT-450 analog operators, to offer CDMA2000 digital communication services using the 450 MHz frequency band, known as CDMA450, based on the IMT-MC-450 standard. Building on Delta Telecom’s commercial success, Sky Link was founded in July 2003 by several players in the Russian telecommunications market to create a federal mobile communications network using CDMA450 technology. Today, there are 32 CDMA450 operators offering the latest in next-generation wireless communications.
”CDMA has a long history in Russia,” said Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDG. “Providing excellent voice quality, network capacity, high-speed broadband connectivity, a large selection of handsets, and an evolutionary roadmap that preserve previous investments are the hallmarks of operating a CDMA2000 network. The regional operators in Russia are finding their choice to operate a CDMA2000 network to be a simple, competitive and wise decision.”
The region is dense with CDMA2000 success stories. Sky Link recently reported their average revenue per user (ARPU) at a staggering $55, helping to increase the company’s consolidated revenue by 15% over the year ending in March 2006. Most of the Russian CDMA regional operators are adding more 1X channel cards to provide increased voice capacity and extending their coverage to reach more citizens throughout Russia. All of the CDMA450 service providers operating under the Sky Link brand name are upgrading their existing networks with CDMA2000 1xEV-DO technology, which supports peak data rates up to 2.4 Mbps, to meet the growing demand for mobile broadband data. For example, Sky Link recently announced plans to extend CDMA450 coverage into the Kaluga region, offer EV-DO wireless broadband services under the brand name SkyTurbo in the Krasnodar region, and a mobile TV service in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
One of Russia’s largest telecommunication holding companies, Sistem-Telecom, which controls MTS, the largest GSM operator in Russia, is investing in CDMA450. Sky Link, which has a majority ownership by JFSC Sistema, has a license to offer mobile services in 65 of Russia’s 88 regions where 104 million people, or 72% of Russia’s total population, reside.
It is becoming increasingly clear to operators around the world that the lower 450 MHz frequency band presents a tremendous opportunity to economically deliver telephony and advanced data services to residents and businesses in densely populated urban areas, as well as in sparsely populated rural areas. CDMA450 supports advanced services such as push-to-talk (PTT), virtual private network (VPN) broadband access, picture messaging, video messaging, richly rendered 3D games, position location services, telemedicine and distance learning.
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