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Rakuten and Vodafone have invested in SpaceMobile, a proposed LEO satellite network aiming to be the first to connect directly to standard smartphones and enable seamless roaming to and from terrestrial cellular networks.

Qorvo has completed the acquisition of start-up company Decawave, paying more than $375 million to position itself in ultra-wideband technology (UWB).

Antenna supplier Taoglas has announced eight 5G NR antenna designs to support emerging 5G applications, such as small cells, repeaters, industrial IoT and UAVs. The full range of Taoglas products, including its latest mmWave hybrid antenna array subsystem, is being displayed at the Embedded World conference in Nuremberg this week.

Sivers IMA plans to begin sampling two beamformer ICs designed for the 24 and 28 GHz 5G bands. The RFICs integrate a pair of four-channel transmit and receive paths to support antenna arrays with horizontal and vertical polarization.