Category: 3G

Startup Entree Wireless has its first customer -- the same outfit that spawned the its fundamental technology. Via [sandiego.com]

Lucent Technologies Inc. is working to develop a product that would provide users with wireless Internet access on trains, buses and automobiles. Via [computerworld.com]

T-Mobile has laid out its group strategy for 3G communications and immediately proclaimed the technology insufficient by itself - the operator is touting a mix of advanced cellular services and broadband local-area connectivity using Wi-Fi. Via [silicon.com]

Calypso Wireless said Wednesday it has received a U.S. patent for technology that it says enables users to roam between cellular data systems and shorter-range wireless systems such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth without losing the connection. Via [mobilepipeline.com]

T-Mobile, Cisco, IBM and Intel today used 3GSM in Cannes to announce an initiative to roll out broadband WLAN and mobile networks across European university campuses. The plan will enable students to work and communicate wirelessly and off-campus, using either WLAN, UMTS or GPRS. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Mobile telecoms giant Vodafone has said it is launching third generation (3G) mobile wireless services in Germany and Italy. Via [news.bbc.co.uk]

Growing numbers of Wi-Fi enabled laptops, GPRS and 3G mobile handsets will make 2004 a breakthrough year for wireless data use, according to Ovum. Via [vnunet.com]

Lucent Technologies has demonstrated the successful seamless handoff of a wireless data call from a "WiFi" or wireless local area network (WLAN) to a UMTS network, enabling mobile laptop users to browse the Internet while roaming between the two network types with no interruption in the session. Via [cellular-news.com]

The success in the US of public wireless local area network (PWLAN) "hotspot" services is causing a rethink among wireless network operators, which are beginning to see hotspot growth as another reason to delay the roll-out of 3G services. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Months after the CEO of cell phone giant Qualcomm downplayed the importance of Wi-Fi to next-gen wireless networks, the company has become the latest cellular vendor embracing 802.11. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

Fast-forward three years: Wireless carriers have completed the build-out of their third-generation networks. Now consumers have "always on" connectivity and can take advantage of high data rates on their handsets or PDAs. Via [news.com.com]

The industry that provides wireless local area networks -- which give users wireless access to the Internet in public locations such as libraries, airports and coffee shops -- is becoming a crowded one. Via [wired.com]

Like it or not, WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) has arrived and if you havent been affected by it yet, there is good certainty you will be experiencing it in 2002. Via [planetpdamag.com]

A system will be unveiled next week that enables seamless roaming between 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs) and GSM wireless networks, according to the three companies that developed it. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

Last week Verizon Wireless became the first company to roll out commercial 3G service in the United States. It announced a new CDMA 1xRTT based data service called Express Network.