CommunicAsia 2006 brings more than 47,000 industry professionals, decision makers, buyers, customers and competitors from over 100 countries to Singapore. More than 1,400 exhibiting companies and 22,000 overseas attendees will attend from 20 – 23 June 2006.
Microsoft, NTT DoCoMo, Ericsson and Motorola will showcase a variety of 3G, WiMAX, IPTV and mobile broadcasting technologies at the show including DVB/DMB, IPTV, Broadband Networking, Microwave and other technologies. Telecom Asia has a CMMA 06 Showcase with a ton of articles.
In the WiMAX arena, Alvarion says its BreezeMAX has achieved WiMAX Forum certification. Certified products include the BreezeMAX PRO CPE family operating at 3.5 GHz with the Intel PRO/Wireless 5116 chips. Alvarion’s Breezemax Si is a self-installable, all indoor customer premises equipment.
Alvarion’s mobile WiMAX solution, called 4Motion (pdf), includes mobile WiMAX radio base stations; end-user devices, PCMCIA cards and network elements such as AAA servers. It uses TI’s analog and DSP-based technology, compliant with the IEEE 802.16e standard. Alvarion’s 4Motion mobile services are expected to be available in the first half of 2007.
Upon the introduction of Personal Broadband services, Alvarion forecasts the mobile WiMAX market to reach between $10 billion to $20 billion with more than 80 million subscribers. Following early trials expected in 2007, Alvarion believes major breakthroughs in the deployment of mobile WiMAX technology will occur during 2008 and 2009.
SOMA Networks is showcasing several WiMAX products at the show with support for 700 MHz - 3.5 GHz spectrum bands. SOMA’s 700 MHz band solution (below) is part of their SoftAir Wireless System, a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) broadband wireless platform that combines standards, like WiMAX 802.16e-2005, with IP and voice technologies and advanced antenna technologies.
SOMA says a single macro base station commonly covers 30 square miles depending upon local deployment factors such as geography and building density.
Samsung demonstrated a mobile WiMax network. The demonstration included a notebook equipped with a PCMCIA WiMax card and several WiMax-equipped PDAs. An upcoming dual-mode handset will pair WiMax with support for GSM.
South Korea’s national WiBro service will officially debut in Korea next month. Some 84 cities will have WiBro coverage, but it’s up to SK Telecom and Korea Telecom to determine the degree of coverage of the service. Samsung unveiled its PDA-type WiBro phones, SPH-H1000 and SPH-M8000, in December last year.
Other announcements include standards-based outdoor fixed wireless networking equipment from smartBridges. They are launching a dual radio access point, the airPoint2 Nexus PRO (left).
Singapore’s Hardware Zone has complete coverage with cool sightings, and lots of new phones.
Part 1 covers Sony Ericsson’s new phones, most in working condition. Part 2 showcases more than 11 phones by Samsung.
Nokia announcements include the $300 6151 camera phone for 3G (WCDMA) systems, the 6275, a midrange CDMA model with a built-in 2-megapixel camera, and the 2875, an inexpensive camera phone.
Nokia’s 1110i, will sell for 45 euros (about $56) while the midrange 6080, the last of the set introduced today, is designed to handle mobile multimedia messaging as well as e-mail and push-to-talk services.
Nokia phones included the previously announced N-80 (with WiFi and multimedia) and the N-93 (below) which features a 3X zoom, WiFi and video recording.
AWG showcased a series of slim touch pad phones including the UBT 1 (below). Could it be the new Apple iPod phone?
Perhaps the biggest announcement was from the Singapore government. They announced today the launch of the Intelligent Nation 2015 (iN2015), a bold ten-year infocomm initiative that aims to take the nation into the next stage of IT development.
The masterplan consists of an extensive line-up of activities and goals with various benefits for the population, businesses and the global community in order to bring about change in the way people live, learn, work and play.
The plan has several key objectives; a three-fold increase in infocomm export revenue to S$60 billion, creating 80,000 additional jobs, and at least 90 per cent of homes using broadband with 100 per cent computer ownership for all homes with school-going children.
South Korea, home to the world’s most sophisticated online games, is preparing an assault on North America, Japan and Europe, according to a Reuters report.
The Reuters report said with domestic growth opportunities crimped by a relatively small and saturated market, South Korea’s leading game makers, NCsoft (with Lineage and City of Heros) and Webzen, are looking abroad with massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) titles, but it has yet to have a cross-over hit with a home-grown game.
Thus far, the only title to crush international barriers in the fragmented industry is “World of Warcraft,” the record-shattering online game from Blizzard Entertainment. The global market for online game subscriptions, downloads and advertising is forecast to grow from $3.4 billion in 2005, to $13 billion in 2011, according to research firm DFC Intelligence.
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[...] Established in 1998, Beijing Airway offers various telecom services including a fixed-line Internet. China Netcom is the country’s No. 2 landline telecom carrier. Spokespersons of Samsung Electronics refused to confirm the deal with Airway and negotiations with China Netcom or Chinacomm. [...]
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