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After a series of announcements regarding the allocation of a fourth 3G licence in France, the French government has revealed in a press release that instead of the single 15 MHz licence that was originally proposed it has decided to split the spectrum into three lots of 5 MHz,...

The last phase of a WiMAX project at Promonte, the prime GSM mobile service provider in Montenegro, has been completed by Comarch. The project introduces global activity taken within Telenor Group’s ‘Internet to the people’, taking advantage of the combination of the latest technologies like 3GHSPA, WiMAX and WiFi....

Good news for those wireless operators with business plans not based on WiMAX: The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), an ITU-based standards organization, has completed its latest round of work clarifying the specifications for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wireless. While more work remains, it appears that the LTE spec will...

NTT DOCOMO has announced that it has successfully developed a trial large-scale-integration (LSI) chip that consumes less than 0.04 W of power yet supports multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signal detection and decoding for downlink transmissions at 100 Mbps, the speed required for the forthcoming mobile system known as Super 3G,...

Ducommun Inc. announced that it has acquired DynaBil Industries Inc. , a privately held company based in Coxsackie, NY. DynaBil is a provider of titanium and aluminum structural components and assemblies for commercial and military aerospace applications. DynaBil’s sales in calendar year 2008 are expected to be approximately $43...

From the Microwave Journal November 2008 Supplement. While a large majority of owners use their mobile phones for voice calls and short message services (texting) only, a growing number are using bandwidth-hungry applications such as Web browsing, music downloads and streamed video. The current explosion in wireless data use...

From the Microwave Journal November 2008 Supplement With the current deployment of high-bandwidth access networks happening at an ever-increasing pace, the need for efficient, high-bandwidth backhaul infrastructure becomes more and more relevant. In fact, the construction of these new access networks depends upon the backhaul network for both technical...

From the Microwave Journal November 2008 Supplement. As consumers, we are used to the continual productivity enhancements derived from having ever-increasing, computer-like handsets at our disposal. For those of us lucky enough to have in-depth RF industry knowledge, we know full well the complexity of a system that can...

2009 will see the introduction of a new class of wireless communications chip that features dual-mode support for both WiMAX and LTE, according to ABI Research. The thrust of demand for such chips comes from those wireless device makers seeking to reduce the number of their SKUs; they will...

Fueled both by consumer demand for entertainment and communication as well as governmental regulatory and economic incentives, companies at all levels of the broadband services and infrastructure value chain are developing new technologies and enabling new services that will continue to push the US broadband market forward over the...