Articles by Richard Mumford

The truly global nature of the evolving 3rd Generation mobile technologies was reinforced in a signing ceremony that formally brought standards organizations from China and the US into an international partnership. The ceremony, which welcomed the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) and the US’s Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions...

Nokia has signed a deal with Vodafone Hungary for the supply of its FlexiHopper Plus microwave radio solution to increase the capacity of the company’s existing nationwide network. This new variant of the successful microwave family enables operators to reduce the occupied frequency spectrum by half, resulting in significant...

Russian mobile provider, ZAO SMARTS, has commissioned Siemens Information and Communication Mobile (Siemens Mobile) to deliver telecommunications equipment worth €30 M. The order encompasses delivery, installation and start-up of GSM technology (transmission, reception and switching systems), microwave systems, and GPRS network elements for the company’s subsidiary in central and...

To keep Europe at the forefront of semiconductor technology, the European Commission will seed-fund an integrated project called NANOCMOS. The project aims to pioneer the necessary changes in materials, processes, device architectures and interconnections to keep pushing the limits of semiconductor performance and density. Participants in the project will...

Centro de Tecnología de las Comunicaciones (CETECOM), Spain, a provider of wireless test solutions, has been chosen by the State Radio Monitoring Centre (SRMC) to supply Bluetooth conformance test solutions, BITE, in Beijing, China, thus offering Bluetooth Qualification Testing services to Chinese manufacturers. As part of the contract, CETECOM...

The contract to build what will be the world’s largest shared TETRA public safety network (in terms of geography) has been won by a consortium led by Saab and including Nokia and Swedia. The Swedish government has chosen the Nordic consortium to build a professional mobile radio network for...

A€20 M contract has been awarded to EADS Defence Electronics (DE) by US-based ViaSat Inc. to supply core electronics that will enhance the US armed forces’ network-enabled capabilities. The contract covers the delivery of 400 power amplifiers, which are core components of the US Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS)....

Irish Broadband, a subsidiary of NTR plc, a developer of private infrastructure, has announced its intent to commercially deploy one of the first next generation, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) wide-area wireless broadband networks in the European Union at 3.5 GHz. The company is utilizing Navini Networks’ Ripwave™ product line. The rollout...

DiGi Telecommunications (DiGi) has selected Ericsson as a network infrastructure provider for its network upgrade to EDGE in the Klang Valley, which includes the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. The company will supply the necessary EDGE network infrastructure and equipment, including the upgrade of associated core network and supply...

Demonstrating its suitability and desirability worldwide, Ericsson’s MINI-LINK™ Traffic Node microwave transmission solution has been selected for two major projects, one in Russia and the other in New Zealand. For both contracts, the system’s deployment recognises that with the introduction of more bandwidth demanding services in mobile networks there...