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The Chilean government, Chile's telecommunications company Entel and Ericsson are implementing a project to provide three million people in remote rural Chile with mobile broadband and mobile telephony by the end of 2011. In 2009, Entel and Ericsson won a $45 M public contract from the Chilean government to...

NEC Corp. will participate in an LTE field trial with Telefonica Moviles Argentina S.A. , the largest mobile carrier in Argentina, and a subsidiary of mobile giant Telefonica. The trial, which is the first in the AWS band in Central and South America, is taking place between November and...

Leading VSAT system integrator Nynex has installed Newtec 's FlexACM® technology to provide new coverage for the Middle East and Central Asia region. Using a combination of Newtec's Elevation ACM Shaper and Encapsulators (EL860), Elevation IP Satellite Modulators (EL170) and Elevation IP Satellite Modems (EL470), Nynex is running three...

Hittite Microwave Corp. , a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for communication and military markets, has introduced a new GaAs HBT MMIC power amplifier and a wide dynamic range digital variable gain amplifier (DVGA) that are ideal for high linearity applications in cellular/3G, LTE/4G, WiMAX, military and fixed wireless...

Renaissance Electronics Corp./HXI announced that HXI has moved to the corporate headquarters in Harvard, MA. The new address is 12 Lancaster County Road, Harvard, MA 01451 and the phone number is (978) 772-7774. Web and e-mail addresses remain the same. The amalgamation of HXI and Renaissance staff will further...

Raytheon Co. has received a contract from Boeing for the production of advanced APG-63(V)3 Active Electronically Scanned Array radars. The US Air Force and the US Air National Guard will receive radars from the contract and deliveries will begin in the second quarter of 2011. The radars are intended...

Components SMPM Attenuator Aeroflex/Inmet has introduced a new line of fixed attenuators incorporating the popular SMPM connector. This self-aligning push-on connector is a miniature version of the company’s SMP attenuator and provides reliable high performance, excellent RF characteristics and mates with GPPO™ connectors. First to market is the model...

Nanotechnologies for Future Mobile Devices is not a book we would typically review because it covers many subjects not related to wireless technologies. It does, however, take a very interesting look at the future of connected devices, which should be of interest to many in our field. The chapters...

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VTI Instruments Corp. announced that it has been selected to deliver the dynamic signal analysis (DSA) instrumentation solution for NASA Plum Brook's Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility (RATF). RATF houses the world's largest Space Environment Simulation Chamber and will use VTI's VT1432B high performance digitizer plus DSP, along with integrated...