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To: elmatador who wrote (3754)	10/16/1999 11:42:00 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 5390

Ericsson and Swedish-based telecom operator Telia have for the first time demonstrated live roaming between a commercially deployed GSM network and a 3G system. The connection is set up between Ericsson?s WCDMA evaluation system near Stockholm and Telia?s commercial GSM network. For the first time, GSM subscribers visiting Ericsson?s 3G- demonstration center can "roam" into a 3G network, using their existing GSM subscriber identity and number to receive calls on a 3G mobile terminal, mounted in a test vehicle. According to Ericsson, this is a significant step in the practical evolution toward 3G mobile services. The test demonstrates the smooth migration path developed for the evolution of second to third generation mobile services, and highlights the interoperability of the two types of networks. In the evaluation link-up, the GSM users take the SIM (the Subscriber Identity Module) cards from their GSM phones and place them into the WCDMA mobile terminal to be able to receive calls made to their GSM phone number. Any SIM card in the world can be used, as long as the operator who issued it has a roaming agreement with Telia. Today, Telia has roaming agreements with 146 operators in 78 countries. Ericsson and Telia began their formal cooperation on WCDMA 3G development and evaluation in the spring of 1998. The two companies inaugurated the Stockholm WCDMA Evaluation System in the spring of 1999, at the same time as Ericsson inaugurated its WCDMA Demo Center, where operators and others can experience 3G services in a high bandwidth mobile environment. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT, U.S. & FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERVICE AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 1999. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES ============================================================ Source: U. S. Department of Commerce - National Trade Data Bank, October 1, 1999