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AT&T has extended its LTE wireless broadband service to eight new states as part of a government funded plan to serve over 400,000 locations by the end of 2017 and over 1.1 million by 2020.

Arralis announced a contract with ESA for the company’s Leonis Ka-Band chipset, which will enable massive data rate communications speeds for commercial and science missions

Mobile filter start-up Resonant Inc. announced that the company signed a development and licensing agreement for two quadplexers with a new customer, a fabless RFIC provider for the mobile RF front-end market in China. The company also disclosed that one of Resonant’s filter design is designed in an OEM handset and is generating the company’s first royalty revenue.

RFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for high throw count switches from Peregrine Semiconductor.

Nokia Bell Labs demonstrated that a commercial passive optical network can transport ultra-low latency data streams between a centralized baseband and cell site. The demonstration shows that existing fiber networks can be used to cost-effectively transport mobile traffic, which will help accelerate deployment of 5G networks.

Pivotal Commware announced its initial round of funding of $17 million. Pivotal spun out from Intellectual Ventures in 2016 as the exclusive licensee of IV's metamaterials technology for terrestrial communications markets such as defense, cellular and vehicles (e.g., planes, cars, ships, trains and drones).

Analog Devices released a GaN power amplifier (PA) that provides 35 W with 20 dB power gain and up to 44 percent power-added efficiency (PAE) from 300 MHz to 6 GHz.

At IMS2017, Skyworks Solutions, Inc. expanded its small cell portfolio with the announcement of a high efficiency power amplifier (PA) supporting the unlicensed spectrum for license assisted access (LAA) and LTE unlicensed (LTE-U). LAA and LTE-U are capabilities enabled in LTE-Advanced that allow cellular systems to tap the 5 GHz Wi-Fi spectrum to increase data capacity.