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  Motorola,, a leading provider of wireless broadband solutions, last week announced that it had been awarded the Chicago market by Sprint Nextel for the build-out of its WiMAX wireless broadband service. Motorola will deploy WiMAX infrastructure to at least 1,000 sites in the greater Chicagoland area, providing select...

Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) will exhibit its WiMAX devices, demonstrate its WiMAX solutions and unveil its WiMAX SoC roadmap on Stand 2.1C50 at the 2007 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona next month. The 3GSM World Congress is one of the biggest mobile technology exhibitions in the world attracting over...

Following speculation amongst various industry insiders, Sprint Nextel made it official late last week that Nokia will be the new supplier for its 4G mobile WiMAX network rollout. Set to be part of Sprint Nextel’s mobile WiMAX roll out later this year, Nokia, will provide both network access devices...

Since video is increasingly taking to the airwaves – literally – it’s opening a demand for content protection and security over mobile and portable wireless devices. NDS, best known for its digital rights management (DRM) and conditional access (CA) software, is stepping into the fray and will be demonstrating...

Convergence, surely, must be the most oft-used word in the CEO’s lexicon of industry terms. Ample proof of this was to be found today at the CEO roundtable discussion at the ITU Telecom World 2006 event. “Everything will be converged into the mobile industry,” said Ki-Tae Lee, president of...

The growing ubiquity of Wi-Fi in hotspots and consumer devices is enough to even sway Alvarion, perhaps the staunchest proponent of WiMAX, which has introduced dual- mode products to integrate the QoS of wide area WiMAX network with Wi-Fi’s end user functionality. “Our vision for WiMAX – especially as...

Sprint Nextel has named Nokia as a key infrastructure and consumer electronic device provider for its 4G WiMAX next generation mobility network. Nokia joins Intel, Samsung and Motorola in creating the advanced network infrastructure and access devices that will be designed to allow consumers, businesses and governments to experience...

Elektrobit has sold its business activities in Kemi and Ylivieska, Finland, which form part of its Radio Network Solutions Business Unit, to Embio Oy. Forty-two employees have been transferred to Embio with corresponding terms of employment and the parties have agreed not to publish the purchase price or other...

M/A-COM , a business unit of Tyco Electronics and a provider of wireless radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter-wave components, introduced two new HBT MMIC amplifiers. The MAAM-007865-0P1R00 and the MAAM-007866-0P1R00 exhibit exceptional broadband frequency performance using only a single application circuit to cover frequency bands from 50 to...

RF Micro Devices Inc. , a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio systems and solutions for applications that drive mobile communications, announced that its RF3159 linear EDGE power amplifier (PA) is supporting Samsung's SGH-D900 "Black Carbon" mobile phone, the thinnest slider phone in the world. A...