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There is no doubt that 2009 was a bad financial year, and there were fears at its beginning that the wireless infrastructure market would see a severe downturn. Estimates for contraction ranged as high as 10 to 12 percent. However, in a just-released study, ABI Research finds that the...

December 2009 saw the first commercial launch of LTE networks, with TeliaSonera the first service provider in the world to offer the service in Stockholm and Oslo. 2010 promises to see the commercial launch of several LTE networks, including large operators such as Verizon Wireless in the United States...

Qualcomm, MediaTek, Infineon and Broadcom increased their share in cellular basebands in 2009 despite an overall decline in the market, as described in “Rapid Changes in the Baseband Market Lead to Rising Fortunes for a Chosen Few,” from the Strategy Analytics RF & Wireless Component market research service. This...

RAYSPAN® Corp., the world’s only provider of metamaterial and advanced RF air interface solutions for wireless communications, announced the availability of RAYSPAN MTM-E™ solutions for long-term evolution (LTE). MTM-E is the only antenna solution that can support six or more bands operating from 698 to 960 MHz in the...

Industry News Crane Co. , a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products, announced the successful completion of its tender offer for Merrimac Industries Inc. Crane has accepted 2,796,642 validly tendered Merrimac shares, including 23,162 shares tendered under the tender offer’s guaranteed delivery procedures. The tendered shares, excluding those...

Welcome and greetings from the entire IEEE IMS2010 Steering Committee. We look forward to seeing you in Anaheim, CA, during Microwave Week, May 23-28. As you make your plans to attend, there are several things that one should consider about IMS2010. Microwave Week provides multiple opportunities to learn, meet...

Welcome to the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, which will take place in Anaheim, CA, May 23-25, 2010 ( www.RFIC2010.org ). Our Symposium, held in conjunction with the IEEE MTTS International Microwave Symposium (IMS), opens Microwave Week 2010, the largest worldwide RF/microwave meeting of the year. The...

Since its inception in 1972, the Automatic RF Techniques Group (ARFTG) has worked to create a constructive forum and voice for the community of RF and microwave test engineers—both test instrumentation end users and vendors alike. Through its various conferences, workshops and training courses, the organization endeavors to keep...

The Microwave Application Seminars (MicroApps)—scheduled for the Anaheim Convention Center, May 25-27, 2010, as part of IEEE-IMS/MTT-S—are a series of concise technical presentations given by exhibitors that are distinct and separate yet complementary to the IEEE technical sessions. MicroApps are engineering topics of interest to the microwave community and...

Mobile Devices Dual-band Dave “Dual-band” Dave works for a large consumer electronics device manufacturer (think Handsets, Smartphones, PDAs, Cellular PC Datacards, Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and cellular modems). He is part of the RF design group. The company buys RF front-end components from various manufacturers (to keep their options...