2011

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Green building designs are good for the environment and benefit society, but they can wreak havoc on cellular signals, panelists agreed during an educational session that was part of PCIA’s DAS Forum “DAS In Action: Capital View” event here …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Green building designs are good for the environment and benefit society, but they can wreak havoc on cellular signals, panelists agreed during an educational session that was part of PCIA’s DAS Forum “DAS In Action: Capital View” event here …

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Distributed Antenna System (DAS) providers need to understand the safety and reliability concerns of utility companies if they want to avoid contentious relationships over pole attachments, said NextG Networks Inc.’s Norine Luker, senior director, utility administration at …

CML Microsystems Plc , a mixed-signal semiconductor company headquartered close to London, England, has acquired the exclusive rights to the RALCWI low bit-rate vocoder products from Spirit Corp, a Moscow based software company. CML originally licensed RALCWI from Spirit a …

SINGAPORE — Here on the show floor at CommunicAsia, there’s been a strong emphasis on quality in the wealth and breadth of phones and devices on hand. From curved screens to fast chipsets and hot-swappable SIMs to loud speakers, a …

Freescale Semiconductor (FSL) recently announced a new generation multi-core platform called the Advanced Multiprocessing (AMP) series and is billing it as the chip-maker’s biggest draw in several years.The new product platform aims to increase positioning in the networking field and …

Ford Motor Co. (F) is expanding its Sync AppLink platform to 10 vehicles in 2012. The car maker tapped the 2012 Fusion, Fusion Hybrid, Fiesta, F-150, F-150 SVT Raptor, Super Duty, Expedition, E-Series, Mustang and the Shelby GT500 for the …

It’s still at least six months away but when Isis launches its mobile commerce platform in the first half of 2012, Austin will be among the first cities in the country to serve as a test bed. The joint venture …

Nearly four years after Nokia Corp. (NOK) paid $8.1 billion to acquire Navteq Corp., the struggling Finnish company is repositioning the business under the arm of “location & commerce.” The new division, to be headed by EVP Michael Halbherr starting …

GUANGHZOU, China – Transformation. The phrase was an overarching theme during a couple of events here as operators and equipment vendors evolve to meet challenges that arise from a fast-paced wireless industry where devices and applications are taking center stage, …

GUANGHZOU, China – Network sharing among smaller U.S. operators could create a strong venture that would be able to compete against today’s large incumbent operators, although that concept is just a concept today.Leap Wireless International Inc.’s (LEAP) Matthew Stoiber described …

AsiaOne | June 21, 2011 | Kenny Chee SINGAPOREANS can now enjoy faster online speeds on the go with fourth-generation (4G) mobile networks as compared to existing 3G networks. M1 is the first Singapore telco to provide 4G services from today. …

ZTE | June 16, 2011 | Press Release ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced that the company has been awarded …

ZTE | June 16, 2011 | Press Release ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced that the company has been awarded …

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) has launched a centralized portal to enable customers to manage and control their machine-to-machine (M2M) devices and services. The Sprint Command Center enables business to control provisioning, billing, management and development of their M2M offering.Via Web …

Alcatel-Lucent Russia: With State Corporation Russian Technologies to develop and manufacture Long Term Evolution (LTE) components customized for the Russian market. The companies will set up a R&D Center in St. Petersburg operated by Alcatel-Lucent RT that will be fully …

Video generates anywhere from 40% to 60% of mobile data traffic on wireless networks today, according to a fresh mobile analytics report from Bytemobile Inc. Considering that, it’s no wonder mobile videos are stalling between 5% and 40% of the …

NOVI, Mich. — RCR Wireless News hit the show floor here at Telematics Detroit earlier this month to get a sense of where mobile is shaking things up in the auto industry and capture some of the latest in-vehicle technology …

Singaporean operator Singtel says it will be launching 4G across the island nation later this year, with plans to deploy 200 new base stations. The firm told Reuters its goal was to increase revenues from multimedia and ICT from its …

SINGAPORE – Nokia Siemens Networks says it has given its Liquid Radio architecture a boost by launching a higher power radio module for its Flexi Multiradio Base Station family at CommunicAsia. In mobile networks, the radio module is the part …