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On 5 January, Indonesian mobile operator Natrindo Telepon Selular (NTS) awarded Ericsson a contract to build, operate and manage its new 3G/WCDMA network in Jakarta and surrounding areas. Under the two-year agreement, the company will supply both 2G and 3G/WCDMA radio network equipment and undertake the turnkey implementation of...

Spectrum Control Inc. , a designer and manufacturer of electronic control products and systems, announced that it has purchased certain land and manufacturing facilities in State College, PA. The property, which was acquired from Murata Electronics North America, consists of 53 acres of land and approximately 250,000 square feet...

RFI Global Services Ltd. has extended the scope of its UKAS accredited SAR test facility to include Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) products. In order to further reduce test times and costs to customers, the company has doubled the size of its test facility and invested in more phantoms. It...

TestMart , a marketplace operator and service provider for the test and measurement industry, announced an agreement with Graphtec America Inc. , a manufacturer of precision recording and measuring instruments. The deal provides the US government and federal contractors a marketplace with special pricing on intelligent recording instruments and...

RFMW Ltd. announced that it has signed a distribution agreement for the Americas with EMC Technology Inc. , a manufacturer of RF/microwave surface-mount terminations, attenuators and resistive products. RFMW Ltd. is a specialized distributor that provides customers and suppliers with focused distribution of RF and microwave components as well...

Patch antennas, printed on a circuit board, are suitable for integration within a communication device since they occupy a very small volume within the system, while at the same time decreasing the final product fabrication cost. The use of this kind of printed patch antenna permits concealing the antenna...

QUALCOMM Inc. , a developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies, announced that the company has acquired Berkana Wireless Inc. , a Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor company. Berkana is a provider of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC)...

ThyssenKrupp Technologies and EADS have signed an agreement with BAE Systems on the joint acquisition of Atlas Elektronik , Bremen, Germany. In accordance with the agreement, ThyssenKrupp Technologies will hold 60 percent of Atlas and EADS 40 percent. Both companies will pool their competencies in platform, electronic and system...

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has announced that it will acquire Chipcon , a leading company in the design of short-range, low power wireless transceiver devices. The transaction for approximately $200 M is expected to be completed this month (January 2006). Under the agreement Chipcon, which employs about 120 people,...

NEC Corp. has signed a contract with Brazil’s leading mobile and fixed network operators - VIVO , Claro and Embratel - to supply its fixed point-to-point PDH microwave system PASOLINK. VIVO is the country’s leading CDMA-based mobile operator whereas Claro is the leading GSM-based mobile operator. PASOLINK will be...