3GPP

3G Americas Applauds Standards Progress of LTE

Bellevue, WA, January 21, 2008 - With the recent approval of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology specifications by the leading global wireless standards organization 3GPP, LTE is on target and continuing its momentum as the next phase of technology development for the GSM family of technologies, according to industry association 3G Americas.

“3G Americas has consistently supported the 3GPP standards for the GSM family of technologies and we applaud the progress of the LTE standard. LTE is a dynamic OFDM-based next generation technology with a great future. 3G Americas is committed to not only today’s global leading standards of GSM, EDGE and UMTS/HSPA but also to the innovation that LTE provides our industry,” stated Chris Pearson, President of 3G Americas.

Standards compliant addition to Monitor Master, helps carriers adapt to new technology faster

Surrey UK, January 2008 – Argogroup, a leader in user experience optimization for converged mobile services, has announced the support of UMA to its Monitor Master platform.

UMA offers mobile operators an alternative way to connect to their network over IP. By seamlessly transferring calls and connectivity between traditional circuit based networks and 802.11 networks, operators increase coverage at low cost providing a better service to their customers.

Using Monitor Master’s award winning technology, complex test scenarios (based on the 3GPP UMA standard) can now be easily implemented to measure the success and quality of calls between one network and another. Over time, the availability of the service can be monitored and if a fault is detected, the underlying diagnostic detail provided can help speed up the diagnosis and resolution of issues.

Initiative aims to trial mobile data rates in excess of 100 Mbps

A group of world leading telecom technology manufacturers and network operators comprised of Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, France Telecom/Orange, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, T-Mobile, and Vodafone have announced a joint initiative aimed at driving forward the realisation of the next-generation of high performance mobile broadband networks based on 3GPP Release 8 "Long Term Evolution / System Architecture Evolution" (LTE/SAE) specifications.