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Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd. has been awarded a multi-million Euro contract to modernize an existing radio backbone for a North African customer. The company will be prime contractor, partnering with the French company, Twist, for the project that is scheduled for completion in 2009-2010. The first phase involves the...

Alcatel-Lucent and NEC have announced the start of a broad collaboration to market advanced end-to-end communications solutions. As an important first step in this collaboration, the two companies have formed a joint venture that will focus on the development of Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband access solutions. Leveraging...

Eutelsat Communications has awarded Thales Alenia Space the contract for the W3B communications satellite. As prime contractor, the company will be in charge of the design, manufacturing, test and delivery of the satellite. Planned for a launch during the second quarter of 2010, the satellite will provide broadcast and...

Reflecting the increasing impact that Latin American style and culture is expected to have on the future design of mobile devices and services, Nokia has opened a satellite design studio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Based at the Design School of UniverCidade, it will bring together Nokia designers, students...

China boasts not just the world’s largest RFID-enabled government ID card initiative, but a wide range of other RFID application projects in transportation ticketing, animal tagging, anti-counterfeiting, real-time location systems (RTLS), asset tracking, e-ticketing and contactless payments. According to a new study from ABI Research, their total market revenue...

RF Micro Devices announced the completion of its acquisition of Filtronic Compound Semiconductors Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Filtronic PLC. Under the terms of the transaction, RFMD paid an acquisition price of approximately £12.5 M in cash for Filtronic Compound Semiconductors. The acquisition price included the purchase of...

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Beceem Communications announced they will extend their WiMAX collaboration to include Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 Protocol Test. Agilent and Beceem will ensure that customers can confidently use Agilent protocol test systems with Beceem's Mobile WiMAX reference designs. Both companies will verify that their designs are...

The closure of two of Germany's HDTV channels in recent weeks has cast a shadow over European hopes for a rapid transition to High Definition Television, according to analysis published by the Strategy Analytics Broadband Network Strategies service. This report, "HDTV Channels Shut Down: A Sign of Things to...

Welcome to March, another special month in our 50-year celebration of Microwave Journal and the microwave industry. This is the month we publish our annual Test & Measurement/CAD issue along with our Cables and Connectors supplement. As in previous years, we dedicate this month to measurement and simulation, two...

When approached to write this cover story 50 years on from Tore Anderson’s original article, which appeared in the very first issue of Microwave Journal , I agreed to write it for two particular reasons. First, as a Brit, it is a privilege to have the opportunity to acknowledge...