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Verizon completes LTE data call trials in Boston, Seattle(Telecompaper) Verizon Wireless has completed its LTE data call trials in Boston and Seattle based on the 3GPP Release 8 standard. The data calls involved streaming video, file uploads and downloads, and web browsing. Verizon has made data calls using VoIP to enable voice transmissions over the LTE network. In collaboration with its network infrastructure providers, Verizon's completion of the data calls over its 700 MHz spectrum in Boston and Seattle marks the next step in its deployment for building the 4G wireless network, which is being built on the 3GPP Release 8 standard. In both locations, the data calls were executed on commercial infrastructure platforms. The technology partners helping to enable data calls in these initial markets include Alcatel-Lucent (Boston) and Ericsson (Seattle) for base station/radio access network, LG and Samsung for trial devices, and Starent Networks and Nokia Siemens Networks for network equipment. Devices from LG and Samsung will soon be supplemen
dmeurope.com Monday, August 17, 2009Oi posts Q2 loss of BRL 146 million(Telecompaper) Brazilian telecommunications operator Oi reported a second-quarter net loss of BRL 146 million, compared to a profit of BRL 288 million in the same period last year. The change was due to higher financing, depreciation and amortisation costs, mainly related to the Brasil Telecom merger. Net revenues dipped to BRL 7.30 billion, compared to a pro forma BRL 7.48 billion a year earlier, and EBITDA fell to BRL 2.32 billion, from BRL 2.44 billion, due to costs for the expansion in the Sao Paolo area. The company ended June with 59.8 million revenue-generating units, 3.7 percent higher than March and up 17.6 percent from a year ago. The growth came mainly from the mobile telephony base, which added 2.097 million users in the quarter for a total 33.9 million customers at end-June. Over the past 12 months, the mobile base was up 34 percent. The number of fixed broadband customers also increased, by 3.2 percent from March and by 15.7 percent from a year earlier, to a total 4.066 m
dmeurope.com Monday, August 17, 2009Sony Ericsson names Nordberg as new president(Telecompaper) Sony Ericsson has named Bert Nordberg, currently executive vice president of the Ericsson Group and head of Ericsson Silicon Valley, as co-president, effective 1 September. Nordberg will work closely with Sony Ericsson president Hideki (Dick) Komiyama and the entire senior management team to effect a smooth management transition. Nordberg, who will be based at Sony Ericsson's global headquarters in London, will assume the role of president at Sony Ericsson on 15 October, and Komiyama will retire from the company at the end of the year. Howard Stringer, chairman, CEO and president of Sony, and a member of the board of Sony Ericsson, will be appointed as chairman of the board of Sony Ericsson on 15 October. In his role, Stringer will succeed Carl-Henric Svanberg, president and CEO of Ericsson.
dmeurope.com Monday, August 17, 2009US ITC rules in favour of Nokia against InterDigital(Telecompaper) An administrative law judge for the US International Trade Commission issued an initial determination in favour of Nokia in the action brought by mobile technology provider InterDigital against Nokia. The case, filed by InterDigital in August 2007, alleged that Nokia infringed four patents that InterDigital asserts to be essential for the UMTS mobile standard. While InterDigital has not yet received the full ID, the notice indicates that the ALJ determined that the patents, while valid and enforceable, are not infringed by Nokia's 3G WCDMA handsets. The judge's initial determination, issued on 14 August, is consistent with a previous judgment in the UK that found several InterDigital patents not to be essential to the UMTS mobile standard. InterDigital intends to submit a petition for review of the ID to the full commission. The commission is scheduled to make its final determination by around 14 December. Ahead of the final determination, Nokia will continue to present
dmeurope.com Monday, August 17, 2009AusCERT sidelined in CERT revampTHE federal government plans to take over Computer Emergency Response Team functions.
Australian IT Monday, August 17, 2009Centrelink picks interim data centre supplierTHE federal government presses on with its data centre rationalisation.
Australian IT Monday, August 17, 2009Optus tech upgrade on holdTHE partly completed program has been halted, awaiting better economic conditions.
Australian IT Monday, August 17, 2009Telstra revamp savings meltTHE technology transformation, intended to save money, is actually costing more until old systems can be shut down.
Australian IT Monday, August 17, 2009Telstra revamp savings sourTHE technology transformation, intended to save money, is actually costing more until old systems can be shut down.
Australian IT Monday, August 17, 2009
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