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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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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 …

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 …

–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 …

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 …

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 …

Qualcomm, CW Solutions, Samsung, SoftBank and TNCI welcomed new employees this week. 

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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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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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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

China 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 …