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31st March 2005, 07:52 AM
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Orange has launched technical and marketing trials of UMTS TDD (TD-CDMA) targeting the enterprise market in Lille, France with equipment supplied by IPWireless, the companies announced today.
UMTS frequency allocation traditionally comprises a paired band (FDD) and an unpaired band (TDD). Like nearly all UMTS operators, Orange has been allocated, depending on the country, a number of FDD frequencies and a block of TDD frequencies. To date, most UMTS deployments have focused on WCDMA utilizing the paired frequency bands. Orange's large-scale WCDMA deployment is ideally suited to provide efficient delivery of a variety of services including voice, SMS, supplementary services, videophone, and packet data transmission at data rates of 64/128Kbps and 64/384Kbps, higher with the planned FDD band evolution to HSDPA. TD-CDMA technology tests and market research from the trials with IPWireless will enable Orange to decide when and how to use its unpaired TDD frequency allocations.
The technical aspects of the trials on the French corporate market in Lille business area will enable Orange to assess the real time performance of TD-CDMA, and notably the coverage area, the capacity, the number of simultaneous users per carrier, and the coexistence of different networks (TDD and FDD).
The trial will enable Orange to test enterprise customers' response to very-high data rate services for complex enterprise applications, and gauge the immediate and near-term demand for such services. The results of the TD- CDMA trial, in tandem with the WCDMA commercial launch, will help Orange determine the various benefits and appropriate positioning for wireless technologies including GPRS, WLAN, WCDMA and TD-CDMA.
"We are pleased to partner with Orange to bring the first UMTS TDD deployment to France," said Chris Gilbert, chief executive officer, IPWireless. "Based on the positive reactions to our commercial deployments worldwide, we are confident that enterprise users in Lille will find tremendous value in Orange's new services."
Orange has launched technical and marketing trials of UMTS TDD (TD-CDMA) targeting the enterprise market in Lille, France with equipment supplied by IPWireless, the companies announced today.
UMTS frequency allocation traditionally comprises a paired band (FDD) and an unpaired band (TDD). Like nearly all UMTS operators, Orange has been allocated, depending on the country, a number of FDD frequencies and a block of TDD frequencies. To date, most UMTS deployments have focused on WCDMA utilizing the paired frequency bands. Orange's large-scale WCDMA deployment is ideally suited to provide efficient delivery of a variety of services including voice, SMS, supplementary services, videophone, and packet data transmission at data rates of 64/128Kbps and 64/384Kbps, higher with the planned FDD band evolution to HSDPA. TD-CDMA technology tests and market research from the trials with IPWireless will enable Orange to decide when and how to use its unpaired TDD frequency allocations.
The technical aspects of the trials on the French corporate market in Lille business area will enable Orange to assess the real time performance of TD-CDMA, and notably the coverage area, the capacity, the number of simultaneous users per carrier, and the coexistence of different networks (TDD and FDD).
The trial will enable Orange to test enterprise customers' response to very-high data rate services for complex enterprise applications, and gauge the immediate and near-term demand for such services. The results of the TD- CDMA trial, in tandem with the WCDMA commercial launch, will help Orange determine the various benefits and appropriate positioning for wireless technologies including GPRS, WLAN, WCDMA and TD-CDMA.
"We are pleased to partner with Orange to bring the first UMTS TDD deployment to France," said Chris Gilbert, chief executive officer, IPWireless. "Based on the positive reactions to our commercial deployments worldwide, we are confident that enterprise users in Lille will find tremendous value in Orange's new services."