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No one can deny that green and clean agendas are rising to the surface in the mobile communications market. ABI Research forecasts that in 2009 over 800,000 base stations will utilize alternative energy solutions such as wind or solar energy, and that nearly 70 million mobile devices will be...

US consumer spending on Subscription-TV, Broadband and Mobile Services will be “about the same” for most consumers, but about 15 percent intend to cut back. As a result, In-Stat estimates that consumer spending across these three segments could see nearly a $5 B decrease during the next 12 months....

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Cobham, announced that it has sold M/A-COM Technology Solutions (MTS) to John Ocampo for $30 M in cash, $30 M in senior loan notes secured on the MTS assets and $30 M dependent on future revenue in the period 2010 to 2012. The loan notes carry a rate of...

The first of the vital European receiver systems that will become part of the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) project in the Atacama Desert in Chile have been shipped to South America from the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, UK, where they...

In a move that will put the companies at the forefront of high temperature microelectronic solutions, C-MAC MicroTechnology and Belgium-based CISSOID have agreed to a strategically important partnership that will lead to the development of high reliability components, modules and sub-systems for high temperature applications operating up to 225°C....

SELEX Galileo has been awarded a $9.2 M contract from TKC Aerospace Inc. to upgrade the Customs and Border Protection C-550 Citation Tracker Aircraft with its Vixen 500E intercept radar and associated mission management system. This contract is for the first two radars and mission management systems, with options...

Satellite 2009 took place March 24-27 in Washington, DC and was dubbed Solutions Start Here. It lived up to its billing of offering a glimpse into the future of the satellite-enabled communications market and the solutions new technology will provide. The conference sessions covered enterprise, military, commercial, broadcast, government,...

NEC ’s UPG2193T6E Single Pole Eight Throw (SP8T) GaAs MMIC antenna switch was developed specifically to meet the needs of new 3G UMTS, W-CDMA and Quad-band EDGE mobile phone designs. End-users are demanding more and more functionality in their mobile phones and manufacturers are responding with a variety of...

Crystek 's CVCO55CC-1370-1400 VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator) operates from 1370 to 1400 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.5 to 4.5 V. This VCO features a typical phase noise of -114 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset and has excellent linearity. Output power is typically +2 dBm. Engineered and manufactured...