The controversy over over-the-air testing standards – or lack thereof – for LTE MIMO, as well as cost and complexity, are some of the major issues in OTA testing today. A recent panel of experts debated those issues at the …
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LTE represents the fastest-growing part of the cellular baseband market, but 2G and 3G solutions still dominate the market. Just 13% of the cellular modems sold last year were LTE modems, according to the analysts at Forward Concepts. “LTE is …
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Time Trippin’: Nextel dominates SMR auction; Qualcomm defends CDMA … 18 years ago this week
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerEditor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the …
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In mobile chip news this week, Qualcomm has unveiled its newest Snapdragon chipset, Broadcom has teamed up with Amazon, and Freescale has agreed to buy Mindspeed’s ARM processor business. Qualcomm has made good on its promise to challenge Apple’s 64-bit …
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Freescale has agreed to purchase Mindspeed’s communications processor unit for an undisclosed amount. Mindspeed was acquired by MACOM last year, and at the time the RF and microwave specialist said that it would try to sell Mindspeed’s Comcerto communications processor …
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–Mobile Experts expects that the small cell market will reach $10 billion in 2018. Joe Madden, principal analyst at the firm, said that the deployment of 200,000 small cells in Asia “has validated the accuracy of our forecasting over the …
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Wi-Fi connectivity is the first thing many people look for when they enter a hotel, restaurant or airport waiting area. But many Wi-Fi access points are facing the same challenge that plagues cellular networks: too many people downloading too much …
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SAN ANTONIO – Sprint VP of technology Ron Marquardt told an audience at CCA Global Expo 2014 that the carrier’s current CDMA network’s voice delivery is comparable to VoLTE (voice-over-LTE) in terms of spectral efficiency, and that in the near …
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Intel’s momentum in mobile hits a roadblock Consumers are not the only ones losing out if reports that Google and Microsoft are killing the Transformer Book Duet are true. Intel championed the Asustek device, which was set to define a …
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Qualcomm, CW Solutions, Samsung, SoftBank and TNCI welcomed new employees this week.
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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Sprint Corp. recently demonstrated phase two of an over-the-air trial of TD-LTE small cells at the Phoenix International Raceway in Phoenix during a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. The venue was selected for the trial because …
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Time Trippin’: Apple cracks open the iPhone; wireless carriers and warrantless wiretaps … 6 years ago this week
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerEditor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the …
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The need for speed was top of mind for chipmakers this year at MWC 2014. Qualcomm is focusing on LTE-A Category 6 connectivity in smartphones and network infrastructure. The mobile chip giant teamed up with Samsung to showcase download speeds …
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Verizon received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a converged health management software platform.
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Time Trippin’: TDMA vs. CDMA; 2.3 GHz auction plans scaled back … 17 years ago this week
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerEditor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the …
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Updated with comment from Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless used this weekend’s Super Bowl as the test bed for its LTE Multicast service that is based on the LTE Broadcast standard for one-way streaming of video content. The test was part …
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Time Trippin’: Analog hangs tough; wireless Internet uptake lags … 13 years ago this week
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerEditor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the …
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CES chip news this year included a number of new products that target devices beyond smartphones, tablets and PCs. Chipmakers foresee a world in which more of the devices we use every day will be connected to mobile networks. Not …
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The mobile device market has morphed into a battle similar to what the domestic wireless carrier market has become over the past several years: two dominate players, with a handful of smaller companies fighting over the scraps.
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MediaTek is gaining ground quickly in the fast-growing markets for smartphone applications processors and baseband processors, but Qualcomm continues to dominate. During the third quarter, MediaTek had 10% of the processor market and 12% of the baseband market, according to …
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Intel is buying the wireless assets of small cell expert Mindspeed, which agreed last month to be acquired by MACOM. Mindspeed said at that time that it would find a buyer for its wireless assets. Mindspeed, which bought Picochip last …
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Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. With winter in the air and the year winding down, it seems like everybody’s either wrapping up unfinished business for 2013 or building out new opportunities to …
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Join Qualcomm, Oracle and Gemalto to discuss the direction of Java for connected devices. Connected intelligent machines are a rapidly growing technology that embeds logic in devices (controllers and operational systems) in order to harness machine data and drive value …
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Qualcomm highlighted the role of the modem in LTE chipsets at its recent 4G Mobile Experience event in San Francisco, emphasizing that the performance of the modem – which controls interactions between the device and the network – is as …
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HetNet News: China Mobile, Huawei choose Ranplan for indoor wireless planning
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillChina Mobile and Huawei have chosen software tools from U.K.-based Ranplan for designing and simulating in-building wireless. Ranplan’s iBuildNet will be used in Huawei’s R&D center in Beijing, along with the Ranplan Radio Propagation Simulator (RRPS) for radio propagation and …