Ericsson Wins US$1 Billion GSM/GPRS Contract with India's Bharti

Bharti Airtel has awarded Ericsson an estimated US$1 billion contract, including expansion and an upgrade of its GSM/GPRS network and managed services. Under the three-year deal, Ericsson will manage design, development and deployment of Bharti's network, including capacity and coverage, enabling the operator to expand in rural India and reach out to all towns and cities in 15 regions. Ericsson will also upgrade the network with mobile softswitch...

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Ericsson changes NASDAQ ticker symbol to ERIC

As of market open on August 24, 2006, Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERICY) American Depositary Receipts will trade on NASDAQ under the new ticker symbol "ERIC".Ericsson has been listed on NASDAQ since 1978.http://www.ericsson....

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NTT DoCoMo Launches HSDPA on August 31

NTT DoCoMo will launch a High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) service on August 31 and start selling Japan's first HSDPA-compatible handset, the 3G FOMA N902iX HIGH-SPEED. In FOMA HIGH-SPEED areas, the N902iX is capable of packet downlinks of up to 3.6Mbps, approximately 10 times faster than current FOMA handsets. Starting August 31, all of central Tokyo will be included in these HIGH-SPEED areas, and all major Japanese cities will be covered...

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California Adopts Major Telecom Pricing Reform

The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted unanimously to allow the state's four largest wireline phone companies - AT&T (formerly SBC/Pacific Bell), Verizon, SureWest, and Frontier - to price their services more like their voice market competitors. The decision stems from the PUC's Uniform Regulatory Framework (URF) proceeding, the first major examination of California telephone regulation in 18 years. Until today, the PUC imposed many regulatory reporting requirements and conducted extensive reviews of landline telephone prices....

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AOL Video Launches Digital Movie Downloads

AOL launched its digital movie download service and announced new partnerships with four major Hollywood studios: 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group.Select movie titles are available for purchase and download with prices ranging from $9.99 to $19.99 per movie. Once downloaded, movies can be viewed offline as well as on other PCs and compatible portable devices that use...

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GigaBeam Completes $10 Million Institutional Financing for its WiFiber

GigaBeam completed the private placement of $10 million of Series C convertible preferred stock and common stock purchase warrants to purchase approximately 860,653 shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $10 million to a limited number of institutional investors. GigaBeam WiFiber products operate in the 71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz radio spectrum bands. This portion of the radio frequency spectrum has been authorized by the FCC for wireless point-to-point commercial use.http://www.gigabeam....

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NTT West-Okinawa Selects Alvarion's BreezeACCESS

NTT West-Okinawa plans to deploy Alvarion's BreezeACCESS VL system in rural and island areas of Okinawa where wired infrastructure is too difficult and costly to deploy. BreezeACCESS VL's enhanced features, such as OFDM non-line-of-sight (NLOS), extended reach of more than 30 kilometers (19 miles). It can be used to provide triple play services to business and residential subscribers in the 5 GHz bands. It offers 20 MHz channel spacing and automatic clear channel selection (ACCS). Its built-in spectrum analyzer can monitor the noise on each...

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China Academy of Telecommunication Research Selects Spirent for 10 Gbps Router Testing

The China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR) of the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has selected Spirent for large-scale testing of 10-Gigabit core routers. Spirent test solutions will enable CATR to test the performance of core routers under high-capacity configurations and extreme networks conditions found in real-world operations.The CATR test environment consists of sixteen 10 Gbps packet over SONET (PoS) interfaces. As a part of the test series, Spirent will assess the performance of MPLS platforms, VPNs, multicast service...

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Mobile Satellite Ventures Awarded New ATC Patent

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) was awarded another U.S. patent for its advanced Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) technology. The new patent covers wireless communications systems in which user devices receive information from terrestrial base stations using terrestrial frequencies (e.g., cellular/PCS frequencies) but relay information back to the base stations using satellite frequencies. In accordance with the patent, a system enabled to use terrestrial frequencies may use all of its terrestrial frequencies to maximize capacity from base...

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Nikon Digital Cameras Offer WiFi Connector to T-Mobile Hotspots

The new Nikon COOLPIX S7c digital camera will offer wireless access T-Mobile Hotspot Wi-Fi Service, enabling camera users to wirelessly share photos with family and friends. The COOLPIX S7c is a 7.1 megapixel, 3x Nikkor Zoom ED lens camera. The first time that a COOLPIX S7c user connects the camera to the T-Mobile network at any of the thousand T-Mobile HotSpot locations nationwide, that user's one year of complimentary T-Mobile HotSpot service...

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Toshiba to Launch Ultra High-Speed SD Card

Toshiba will launch two new series of SD Cards that offer high-level data transfer rates and read-write performance. The "high-speed series" will offer a maximum data transfer rate of 5-megabytes per second, while the "ultra high-speed series" will push transfer rates to as high as 20MB per second, double the rate of any other Toshiba-brand SD Cards. Both series will be rolled out this autumn, in Japan in October and globally in November.In May this year, the SD Card Association introduced the SD Speed Class, defining three minimum data transfer...

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