Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Posted by Roberto
2:17 PM
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ERICSSON HAS SHOWN HANDOVER OF CALLS BETWEEN GSMA AND WCDMA
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) Ericsson announced the first live handover of calls between the GSM and WCDMA third-generation mobile telephony standards on Tuesday, using test units.
This meant that a person talking on a cellphone from a car would automatically have the call transferred from a 3G network covering only a city area to a GSM network when driving into the countryside.
"From the operator's point of view you can offer customers complete coverage from the very beginning, and you don't need to have full 3G coverage in a country," Ericsson spokesman Peter Olofsson said.
"It has been debated and questioned whether this can be done. We don't know what our competitors are doing, but as far as we know they haven't shown it yet."
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the world's dominant second-generation wireless technology, currently used by most European operators.
WCDMA is a new standard which enables fast data rate transfers, particularly useful for data-heavy multimedia services such as picture and video messaging.
The 3G rollout has been plagued by delays in Europe with cash-strapped telecom operators choosing instead to focus on repairing their battered balance sheets after spending billions of euros on 3G licenses in 2000.
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