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Sixteen months after the acquisition of three production centers, Chelton Telecom & Microwave (CTM) has consolidated its activities to obtain quality certification ISO 9001 Version 2000. This adds to the excellent results achieved by the Systems Business Unit in Plaisir, France and the Sales Head Office in Grigny, France....

Alcatel has signed a €41.5 M GSM expansion contract with Unitel , the leading mobile operator in Angola and the sole GSM operator in the country. Following three consecutive years of close collaboration, this win strengthens Alcatel's position with Unitel and confirms its broad strategy to target and serve...

Centro de Tecnologia de las Comunicaciones, S.A. (CETECOM), in Spain, has been selected by the WiMAX Forum™ to develop the Radio Conformance Test Tester (RCTT) for mobile WiMAX. This follows the company’s participation, together with other test equipment manufacturers, in a RCTT RFP activity conducted by the Forum. The...

Thales' Land & Joint Systems Division has awarded RF Engines (RFEL), the experts in signal processing for FPGA, a contract for the supply of a complex channeliser design. Building on the successful launch of the ChannelCore product line in December of 2005, this contract calls for a modified version...

The RF to Light 100 dropped 0.3% last week, YTD + 9% at 2303. In the News: US GDP rose to 5.3%, the dollar strenghtened and the 3-month libor moved up to 5.23% anticipating another Fed rate hike in June. Wall Street finished the week higher based on positive...

RFI Global Services Ltd. has received UKAS accreditation for RFI-Korea, a key subsidiary compliance laboratory scheduled to open in June in Gunpo. The facility has easy access to Seoul, is near the major Korean handset manufacturers LG and Samsung, and consists of 6000 ft 2 equipped with the latest...

The RF to Light 100 dropped another 3% last week, YTD + 9% at 2311. We are 8% down now from its peak two weeks ago, which was reached after five consecutive quarterly increases - a very long period. Increased core inflation data created another sell-off last Wednesday. It...

Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP), Frankfurt, Germany, has announced the availability of its high performance specialty SiGe process for Applied Wave Research 's Analog Office 2006 design suite. The delivery of the first AWR-based IHP process design kit (PDK) is part of a long-term partnership between the two...

TNO Information and Communication Technology has joined forces with the Telematica Instituut and five municipal authorities in the Netherlands to form the D!mpact partnership, which will focus on delivering a total solution for digital local-authority services. The municipalities are Zwolle, Hellendoorn, Heusden, Oldenzaal and Enschede, which is the location...

This year's local 2006 IEEE MTT chapter symposium in Israel, Hertzlia, held on May 8, 2006, was a great success with 43 oral topics and seven posters (compared to a total of 34 oral topics and posters in 2005), and was well attended with more than 400 attendees (compared...