Alcatel establishes strategic partnership with IPWireless - Standards - Brief Article

Mobile Internet, The, Feb, 2003

Alcatel enhanced its leading role in next generation wireless broadband access solutions, by announcing a strategic partnership with IPWireless, the world's leading TDCDMA (TDD) solutions company. Alcatel has chosen to partner with IPWireless to serve the needs of mobile operators wishing to complement their GSM/GPRS and WCDMA service offerings with TDD broadband wireless services.

This solution is particularly well adapted to deploy cost effective coverage of hot zones such as dense business areas. This TDD solution will support Alcatel's extensive portfolio of UMTS/3G and WLAN networks and services. The IPWireless broadband solution delivers data rates of up to 3Mbps (1.5Mbps in a 5MHz channel) direct to users' laptops or PCs via a PC card (PCMCIA). In a fully deployed network, broadband coverage is as ubiquitous as today's GSM networks.