Alliances: New consortium formed to address mobile broadband
March 18 2010 - 10:43 am ET | Kristen Beckman | RCR Wireless News
A new consortium funded by the European Commission has been formed to work toward increasing mobile broadband infrastructure capacity density. The Beyond Next-Generation Mobile Broadband consortium is organized under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The goal of the group is to increase capacity density to 1 Gigabit per second per square kilometer. Alvarion’s chief technology officer, Dr. Ze’ev Roth, will serve as the consortium’s project coordinator. Other consortium members include Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (Spain), Cobham Antenna Systems, Microwave Antennas (UK), University of York (UK), Thales Communications S.A. (France), Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (Poland), Siklu Communication Ltd (Israel) and ARTTIC (BE).
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Axeda Corp. announced an alliance to facilitate machine-to-machine solution development and deployment. The pair is providing a secure, scalable platform on which to build applications.
TeleCommunication Systems Inc. said it won an order valued at $7 million to provide managed bandwidth services and terminal maintenance support for fixed satellite terminal sites supporting U.S. government personnel in forward operating areas in Southwest Asia, including Afghanistan and Iraq. The order is initially funded at $2.2 million for the first year and will be funded up to $7 million if options for two additional one-year renewals are fully exercised, said TCS.
Texas Instruments and GetFugu Inc. have teamed up with the MobileLab research group at the University of Dallas to work on next-generation human device interactions technologies that merge a physical environment with a virtual world on mobile devices. TI and GetFugu contributed $100,000 to the effort.
VeriSign Inc. said it has been chosen by Microsoft Corp. to provide code signing services for applications distributed through Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The agreement calls for VeriSign’s services to safeguard applications developed for Windows-based phones.
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