U.S. Cellular awards Nortel five-year contract
U.S. Cellular has awarded Nortel a five-year contract to provide advanced wireless capabilities that deliver high-quality mobile voice and data services while easily supporting addition of new subscribers. The deal builds on Nortel and U.S. Cellular's long-standing relationship for supplying CDMA solutions.Using Nortel's CDMA solution, U.S. Cellular can offer reliable wireless coverage to its expanding customer base with applications beyond superior voice service, such as web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging, picture messaging, gaming and advanced data services for wireless handheld devices and smartphones.
"U.S. Cellular is committed to offering the highest level of service to our ... Posted on 27th March 2008
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Nortel is unveiling new unified communications solutions that let today's mobile worker connect more quickly with colleagues, make faster decisions, and increase responsiveness to customers while helping enterprises make better use of their mobile communications budgets."Companies are deploying mobile unified communications for many reasons, but primarily because it makes people more effective," said Brent Kelly, senior analyst and partner, Wainhouse Research. "With a mobile unified communications solution, call completion rates can rise 30% - 50%. Companies can also trade savings from mobile phone charges for an increased spend in Wi-Fi networks, dual-mode phones, customer-based equipment or ... 
3G Americas, a wireless trade association, will host the HSPA Mobile Broadband Pavilion at CTIA, April 1-3, 2008, in the Las Vegas Convention Center with the participation of 19 other companies. Pavilion guests will see, feel and experience true mobile broadband services and applications on a broad variety of HSPA devices and learn about the evolution path to LTE. HSDPA is the leading mobile broadband technology commercially available today on 182 networks in 79 countries, with more than 400 devices available from 90 suppliers.The HSPA Mobile Broadband Pavilion will allow attendees to put themselves in real-life ... 
Nortel has successfully tested a solution with Qualcomm that will improve the mobile phone experience for users by allowing them to continue conversations uninterrupted and avoid additional roaming charges when a caller is moving between different wireless networks.The completion of testing between Nortel's IMS-based Voice Call Continuity (VCC) network solution and the Qualcomm chipset solution that uses their IMS/VCC device client is a major step towards the availability of out-of-the box VCC-enabled mobile phones. VCC helps decrease mobile phone charges by seamlessly switching voice calls, without interruptions, between WiFi and cellular networks. Airtime and long ... 
Czech Railways has awarded Nortel partner Kapsch CarrierCom AG an order for developing the GSM-R system along the International Corridor IV rail route running from the Czech Republic through Slovakia and Hungary to destinations in Greece, Turkey and Romania. This will enhance the train to track communications and improve the speed and efficiency of railway travel.This new portion of the International Corridor IV GSM-R project covers the distance from the towns of Kolin, east of Prague, to Kuty on the Slovakia border and on to Hohenau on the Austrian border. Construction begins in ... 
Nortel is teaming up with leading universities across the globe to develop new innovations that will help meet the growing demand for 4G mobile broadband applications like video, mobile TV and other multimedia services.Nortel's collaborative research with universities supports the new era of communications that is characterized by Hyperconnectivity, where everything that can be connected will be connected - encompassing person-to-person communication, person-to-machine and machine-to-machine.