Wireless Base Station

WASHINGTON-States will no longer be able to regulate the wireless industry under language included in the latest draft of the Senate telecommunications-reform bill. The question now for the wireless industry …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry continued to press for pre-emption as telecom reform plods along in the Senate. But the industry could be making some headway on universal service provisions that are …

WASHINGTON—The wireless industry continued to push for pre-emption, Sprint Nextel Corp. urged inclusion of special-access reform and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, floated a network-neutrality …

ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. announced a patent license agreement with Qualcomm Inc. to develop, manufacture and sell W-CDMA picocell and microcell base-station systems. Andrew said the agreement includes the use …

TelASIC Communications Inc. raised $26 million in a series D round of financing. The company, which develops analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and sub-systems for the third-generation wireless infrastructure market, …

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-TelASIC Communications Inc. said it has raised $26 million in a series D round of financing. The company, which develops analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and sub-systems for …

Global Signal Inc. said its board of directors has increased its cash dividend for the fourth quarter to 40 cents per share of common stock from 37 cents in the …

TEL AVIV, Israel-Wireless broadband company Alvarion Ltd. announced it completed its $40 million acquisition of wireless base station company InterWAVE Communications International Ltd. The closing ends a somewhat tenuous relationship …

IRVINE, Calif.-Military Communications Technologies Inc. said its Australian affiliate, Military SDR Technologies Pty Ltd., has released details about a new wireless product application of its SpectruCell SDR technology. The product …

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Investors last week cheered AirNet Communications Corp.’s elevated fourth-quarter earnings forecast, sending its stock price up 80 percent. The wireless base station maker previously expected fourth-quarter revenues of between …

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Investors cheered AirNet Communications Corp.’s elevated fourth-quarter earnings forecast, sending the wireless base station maker’s stock up almost 80 percent to $1.70 per share. AirNet previously expected fourth-quarter revenues …

Qualcomm Inc. announced it signed memoranda of understanding to provide its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless technology to several wireless operators around the world. BellSouth in Guatemala, Telcel-BellSouth in Venezuela …

BURNABY, British Columbia—PMC-Sierra has released its PM2360-KIT Gandalf reference design kit, a reference platform for third-generation wireless base station designs. PMC-Sierra said the new design kit allows developers to design …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it will enhance its third-generation wireless base station platform, the Flexent One BTSTM, boosting performance and capacity and providing customers with long-term investment protection. …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems, the former microelectronics group of Lucent Technologies Inc., has released a chip that switches voice and data signals, doubling the channel capacity of other products for wireless …

TORONTO-Now that the C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) Telus deal to acquire Clearnet Communications has been finalized, engineering issues are starting to surface. The challenge? How to combine the wireless operations …

Pathnet Pathnet Telecommunications named Ken Rowen vice president of sales, focusing on competitive local access carriers. Rowen will lead a team responsible for integrating CLECs, regional bell operating companies and …

The enthusiasm surrounding the emerging broadband wireless access industry is creating an opportunity for a variety of new and established equipment vendors hoping to cash in on what is expected …

CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. said it plans to acquire Italtel Tecnomeccanica S.p.A., a subsidiary of Italtel S.p.A., which is a joint venture of Siemens AG and Telecom Italia S.p.A. Terms of the …

Becker/Jani Inc. A log periodic dipole antenna, the Celwave Maximizer model APL 926513, was introduced for Global System for Mobile communications and Total Access Communications systems. The antenna offers a …

Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. has ended commercial distribution of its cryoelectronic receiver front-end products for the mobile wireless base station market, igniting questions of whether superconductor companies targeting the wireless …

SAN FRANCISCO-Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. announced its REACH Receiver Front End System has been sold domestically and internationally as a result of its field tests. The system uses cryoelectronic filters …

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. announced a strategic alliance with Comsyst Pty Ltd. of Sydney, Australia, to distribute and support AirNet’s software-based, broadband wireless infrastructure equipment products and systems in the …

SAN FRANCISCO-Natural Microsystems Corp. announced an enhanced version of the TX2000, a high performance communications processor, in an effort to integrate the core SS7 technology gained in its recent acquisition …

MORRISTOWN, N.J.-AT&T Network Systems Inc. announced its PCS Minicell product portfolio, the flagship product in the company’s new family of wireless base station products for personal communications services systems. PCS …