[Nortel announces successful HSUPA and HSDPA combined wireless calls. ]

Paris -- Nortel has successfully achieved the industry's first simultaneous uplink and downlink high-speed wireless calls between two mobile devices at uplink speeds four times faster than current UMTS services.

Nortel's demonstration - planned to be repeated at next week's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona -- uses Nortel's commercial UMTS Base Transceiver Station and Aeroflex's TM500 handset simulator to exchange VOIP, videos and files at uplink speeds of 1.4 Mbps.

This achievement illustrates the potential viability of next-generation wireless technologies for high-bandwidth applications between mobile devices such as VOIP, video streaming, real-time high-definition mobile gaming and large file exchange. High-speed uplinks are particularly valued by media agencies transferring high-definition images and video content from locations with no broadband wireline access.

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