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Alcatel has signed a three-year memorandum of understanding with Manobi, an operator of mobile and Internet services dedicated to the rural sector of developing and emerging countries. Already a long-term partner with Manobi, the company will be involved in running several pilot projects that will not only improve the...

When the chief officers of the three European Standards Organisations (ESO) met with Günter Verheugen, vice president of the European Commission in charge of Enterprise and Industry, to discuss the contribution that CEN, CENELEC and ETSI can make to promote growth, competitiveness and employment in the European Union, the...

Increased deployment and aggressive pricing of WiFi capabilities from operators such as SBC, AT&T and MCI, as well as the increased provisioning of free WiFi hotspots will place as much as $12 B of projected profits of US wireless operators at risk, according to new analysis from Strategy Analytics....

According to In-Stat, the Federal Communication Commission has announced its decision to expand the rules of Ultrawideband (UWB). In-Stat sees the FCC’s approval of the waiver that was previously requested by the MBOA Special Interest Group as a positive move. The waiver that was granted allows the power measurement...

Advanced Wireless Communications – 4G Technologies Savo G. Glisic John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 877 pages; $155 ISBN: 0-470-86776-0 At the present time, the wireless communications research community and industry are about to start discussions on standardization activities for the fourth generation (4G) of these systems. In the past,...

New Waves: MTT-S Product Showcase The following booth numbers are complete as of April 15, 2005 Aluminum Flange Stock This aluminum waveguide flange stock is available in sizes ranging from WR22 to WR137 and double ridged sizes WRD 180, 580, 650 and 750. This 6063 extruded aluminum material precludes...

RF identification (better known by the acronym RFID), while not a new technology, has experienced a recent resurgence due to new applications in the supply chain management, coupled with advances in the technology. The identification of an object using RF interrogation has been in use almost as long as...

A new class of microstrip surface-mountable harmonic (low pass) filters constructed using thick film technology has been developed at IMS Inc. They are designed for use wherever suppression of harmonics or other spurious signals generated by transmitters operating in a host of different RF applications is required. Such applications...

A spiral is a very important form of planar or multilayer inductor or transformer. Previous designs of spiral components, however, have relied heavily on approximate quasi-static models and verification using electromagnetic field solvers. Recently, an application-specific graphical user interface has been created for use with the IE3D high performance...

Cellular radio systems such as GSM Edge, N-CDMA or W-CDMA are seeing increasing demand in today’s wireless infrastructure. As volume production increases, equipment manufacturers require low cost solutions with good performance from their component suppliers. Freescale Semiconductor has pioneered the use of high power plastic packages for high frequency...