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SK Telecom announced that it, together with Nokia, has successfully reduced latency between the handset and base station to 2 milliseconds (ms) over its LTE network.

Aerospace supplier United Technologies Corp (UTC) has struck a $30 billion agreement to buy avionics and interiors maker Rockwell Collins Inc., the companies said on Monday, in a deal that bulks up UTC’s power with plane makers by creating one of the world’s largest makers of civilian and defense aircraft components.

Earl Lum, founder and president of EJL Wireless Research, believes the migration to 4.5G and 5G will create a “period of prosperity” for the compound semiconductor industry, as LDMOS power amplifiers cede share to GaN and GaAs. He forecasts that 5G and fixed wireless access transceivers at 28 GHz will exceed 20 million units by 2021, and 5G new radio (NR) transceiver shipments will represent 80 percent of all macrocell shipments by 2021.

Leonardo’s Vixen 500E AESA radar has been procured by INCAS for its new IAR-99 TD trainer technology demonstrator program.

Guzik Technical Enterprises announced a new series of AXIe modular digitizers with combined signal processors, the ADP7000 series, for the emerging 5G communications test market and related applications.

Ericsson has launched three small cell products: a multi-operator Dot, a multi-Dot enclosure for indoor deployment and, for outdoor deployments, a strand-mounted enclosure to hold multiple small cell radios.