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Following Ericsson’s completion of the acquisition of strategic parts of Marconi 's telecommunications business the company has announced it will continue to use the Marconi name in the recently acquired product portfolio. Ericsson says it will continue to use the Marconi name in recognition of the company's strong reputation...

RFI Global Services (RFI) has announced an investment of £2 M by Close Venture Management , aimed at accelerating the expansion of the company's international market presence and allow it to increase its range of compliance and product development services. Plans include expansion of the company's UK facilities, introduction...

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Anite Telecoms announced the development of a HSDPA RF conformance test solution. Release is planned for April 2006, followed by a complete W-CDMA RF conformance test solution. The Agilent and Anite relationship, formed in 2003 to develop and promote protocol and system simulator test solutions,...

EADS has signed a contract with Pro-M to deliver the infrastructure for the Hungarian nationwide TETRA network. Pro-M was established for this purpose by T-Mobile Hungary and Magyar Telekom and will build and operate the nationwide radio communications network by order of the Hungarian Government. The EADS TETRA solution...

Malta 's leading wireless operator, Vodafone Malta Ltd. , has contracted Siemens Communications Group to build its 3G/W-CDMA network. This network, which will cover the entire island, will be available to personal users, business customers and tourists later this year. Siemens has a good track record having already built...

The ZigBee™ Alliance , an association of companies working together to enable wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard, recognized a number of recent industry events demonstrating unprecedented value in the long-term market potential for ZigBee devices. On January 24, Texas Instruments Inc. (TI)...

Andrew Corp. , a global leader in communications systems and products, has introduced a new transportable earth station antenna for military and commercial broadcast use that will operate on virtually any geostationary satellite system. The Andrew 3.9 Meter Trifold™Transportable Earth Station Antenna is a versatile antenna, with quad-band operation...

NEC Electronics Corp. has announced that it will merge its wholly-owned subsidiary, NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices Ltd. , back into the parent company, effective April 1, 2006. NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices designs and manufactures RF and wireless semiconductors, components for fiber optic communications, optocouplers and solid-state relays. In the...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Ikanos Communications Inc. to sell its FUSIV network processor and Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) product line. The divesture is in line with ADI’s strategy of focusing its digital signal processing (DSP)...

Elcoteq has divested its German subsidiary Elcoteq Elektronik GmbH and the manufacturing plant in Überlingen, Germany, to the German company Rafi GmbH & Co. KG. The enterprise value of the divested subsidiary is approximately €6 M. The plant whose net sales in 2005 totaled approximately €25 M has a...