Device Arena

Alcatel-Lucent is showcasing its leadership in the deployment of broadcast mobile TV at the world’s largest Consumer Electronics trade fair, the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) 2008, held from August 29 to September 3 in Berlin (Alcatel-Lucent booth: Technical and Scientific Forum (TWF) in Hall 5.3, Booth #22).

During IFA 2008, Alcatel-Lucent is demonstrating, for the first time in Europe, MPE-iFEC (Multi-Protocol Encapsulation - inter-burst Forward Error Correction), a powerful error-correction coding that improves the quality of broadcast mobile TV reception in hybrid satellite and terrestrial networks. This innovative feature is embedded in the DVB-SH mobile broadcast standard (Digital Video Broadcast – Satellite services to Handhelds).

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The St. Paul City Council on Wednesday will accept a donation of mission critical communications equipment from Motorola, Inc. in support of the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC), to be held September 1-4. For their contribution, the St. Paul City Council will recognize Motorola during the council’s weekly meeting at 3:30 p.m. on August 27.

Motorola will provide the St. Paul Police Department with 1,100 portable radios and additional support personnel to assist public safety communications around the clock during the RNC. The radios are interoperable with Minnesota’s state-of-the-art Allied Radio Matrix for Emergency Response System (ARMER). The ARMER system, designed by Motorola, uses the 800 MHz public safety radio band and enables communications among all of the public safety agencies in the St. Paul metro area.

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Motorola and AT&T today announced the availability of the MOTO Q™ Global with Windows Mobile 6.1, one of the first devices featuring the latest mobile software on sale to the public. Available exclusively to AT&T customers, the new MOTO Q Global has a bold pinstripe design with eye-catching metallic edging and a robust feature set, including Motorola’s patented CrystalTalk™ technology for clear calls, assisted GPS1via the AT&T network for quick, accurate location fixes, and threaded SMS1 for chat-like texting.

“Consumers have been clamoring for a single device with the most advanced Windows Mobile software to keep them connected, informed and entertained, all while looking sleek and sharp,” said Juergen Stark, corporate vice president of Productivity, Mobile Devices, Motorola, Inc. “Motorola is proud to provide AT&T customers with one of the first devices featuring Windows Mobile 6.1, and the unparalleled smart phone experience of our MOTO Q Global.”

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Ericsson is to supply, build, integrate operate and manage multiplay communications infrastructure for Saudi Arabia’s high-tech flagship, King Abdullah Economic City. The five-year sole-supplier partnership agreement with Emaar, developer of the smart-city project, is the first for an end-to-end fixed network in Saudi Arabia.

This turnkey agreement award breaks new ground in Saudi Arabia as Ericsson’s first GPON- enabled IPTV contract, the first fiber optic contract and the first fixed-network IMS contract where Ericsson provides systems integration and network rollout services. The contract brings together products from Ericsson’s major acquisitions - Entrisphere, Marconi, Redback and TANDBERG Television - and the company’s telecom services portfolio.

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XOHM(TM) WiMAX mobile broadband customers can have information customized for their locations and personalized to their needs with new Sprint ecosystem agreements that help pioneer subscriber location services.

Sprint is building a WiMAX high-speed mobile data network which will debut commercially in Baltimore this September. Other cities are expected to receive service in the fourth quarter and beyond. “The XOHM mobile broadband experience will be largely location-centric,” explained Rick Robinson, vice president of XOHM Services. “We’re creating a new dimension to online presence, making points of interest near your current location easy to identify and access. This ‘geobrowsing’ effect provides location context and will give XOHM members a richer personal broadband experience when they’re mobile.”

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AT&T today announced an agreement with Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation (MCCF) that gives students, faculty and staff members access to discounted wireless rate plans and devices. In addition, MCCF has earmarked a portion of the proceeds generated from the student sales for its scholarship fund. This is the third year running that the two organizations have teamed-up to aid Maricopa Community College students and MCCF’s Scholarship Fund.

“We are extremely excited by this partnership,” said Jeff McElfresh, vice president and general manager for AT&T’s wireless services in Arizona. “This relationship with MCCF is beneficial to students as well as Maricopa Community Colleges’ employees and further demonstrates our ongoing investment in the Greater Phoenix community.”

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AT&T today announced that the eagerly anticipated Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (MDM) is now available to AT&T business customers who use smartphones running Windows Mobile 6.1. In conjunction with the availability of Mobile Device Manager, AT&T also announced today the availability of the MDM Early Adopter QuickStart Program that was developed cooperatively by AT&T and Enterprise Mobile and is an exclusive offering designed to assist AT&T customers with deploying the Microsoft mobility solution.

Mobile Device Manager is an enterprise-grade mobile device management solution that also provides security, mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) and software distribution for Windows Mobile devices. Mobile Device Manager is natively supported by the latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.1. Windows Mobile 6.1 is now available for free download to AT&T Tilt™ and MOTO Q™ Global smartphones from AT&T, which has the broadest portfolio of Windows Mobile devices of any U.S. carrier. Additional new smartphones launched by AT&T later this year will feature Windows Mobile 6.1 with support for Mobile Device Manager.

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AT&T today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned AT&T in the Leaders Quadrant of its 2008 “Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing.”

Gartner positioned AT&T Connect™ in the Leaders Quadrant in its annual review of Web conferencing and collaboration services for enterprise businesses. AT&T Connect provides an effective foundation for both enterprise-wide collaboration and unified communications initiatives with its integrated telephony, ability to scale for large events, advantages in serving remote and mobile users and flexible licensing that allows unlimited global collaboration with a fast return on investment.

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Use Sprint’s new NFL Mobile Live application and automatically register for a chance to win a trip for two to Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa Bay. It’s that easy.

Sprint today announced that beginning Monday, Sept. 1, it will begin its largest NFL promotion by giving away 17 trips for two to Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa Bay, with the “NFL Mobile Live Super Bowl XLIII Sweepstakes.”

Each week throughout the NFL’s 17-week regular season, any Sprint customer who uses NFL Mobile Live will be automatically entered for a chance to win two tickets to the NFL’s biggest game. Fans can use NFL Mobile Live each week to be entered for that week’s drawing. Winners will be announced weekly.

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Alcatel-Lucent today announced a new UK and Ireland channel recruitment drive designed to encourage specialist data and security resellers to become Alcatel-Lucent business partners.

The company will recruit direct partners to sell its recently launched OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian and OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway security products, as well as its rapidly expanding portfolio of enterprise data solutions, including the successful OmniSwitch 6850 family of LAN switches.

To coincide with the recruitment effort, Alcatel-Lucent has revamped its business partner training programs. The sessions offered now include technical training for the company’s full range of data and security products, as well as providing increased emphasis on sales methodologies, helping partners to better engage with end-users and to map Alcatel-Lucent solutions to address their needs. Both new and existing partners will be able to access the training programme schedule by visiting the partner extranet at: https://www.businesspartner.alcatel-lucent.com

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