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What a busy industry we work in! The range of hot topics keep surfacing like cloud services, smart phones, net neutrality, mobile app stores and over-the-top services as well as continued buzz from LTE and WiMAX keeps on coming. Of course, these are increasingly facets of the same thing,...

Telecom subscribers can look forward to widespread and ubiquitous mobile and portable connectivity from not just a single wireless technology, but a confluence of technologies that will coexist as well as compete with each other in the next wireless evolution or the 4G era. Global marketing intelligence firm, IDC’s...

The demands of cost reduction and greater efficiency in cellular base station design are leading to a rapidly growing market for remote radio heads. According to a new study from ABI Research, this market is on track to exceed a value of $1 billion in 2014. Remote radio heads...

Over the last several years, mobile WiMAX has moved through standardization, productization, and interoperability testing and certification. Larger-scale network deployments are finally becoming a reality. Clearwire in the United States has already declared 173,000 subscribers, Yota in Russia has been growing at a decent rate reaching 100,000 subscribers in...

Qualcomm looks set to be the leading patent holder in 4G wireless communications after recording 24 percent of ETSI declarations surrounding LTE, as well as 16 percent of the 26,000 patents that have potential relevance to 4G technologies generally, including WiMAX. Other notable players in the LTE field include...

Market research firm Infonetics Research released the second edition of its 2009 Mobile Backhaul Equipment and Services report, which tracks mobile backhaul equipment, connections, installed cell sites, and service charges. The report finds mobile backhaul equipment investments jumped a healthy 59% in 2008 to $3.7 billion worldwide, and forecasts...

Sweden's TeliaSonera recently announced that it has rolled out the world's first 4G mobile service, partnering with wireless provider Ericsson to offer commercial services in Stockholm. The carrier also this week deployed the first commercial LTE network in Oslo, Norway, partnering with Huawei for the task. So-called '4G' or...

RFMW Ltd. and NXP Semiconductors announced a distribution agreement for the Americas. NXP is a manufacturer of high performance RF and microwave semiconductors. RFMW Ltd. is a specialized distributor providing customers and suppliers with focused distribution of RF and microwave components as well as specialized component-engineering support. According to...

The management teams from Plus Semi in Swindon, UK, and the former X-FAB facility in Roborough, Plymouth, UK, have taken the bold step to re-launch Plessey Semiconductors Ltd. The company has been created from the acquisition of the share capital of X-FAB UK Limited together with existing key engineering...

The European Commission has awarded Thales Alenia Space Italia the contract for the supply of the ‘System Support Services’ of the Galileo Project to the European Space Agency (ESA), with the framework contract extending from 2010 till 2016. The activities initially spanning the period from 2010 to 2014 will...