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Strategy Analytics , a global research and consulting firm, has released its projections for the enterprise market in 2008, and it projects rapid growth in both so-called smart phones and GPS handsets as enterprise-caliber location-based service (LBS) solutions. “Wireless Enterprise Strategies: 2008 Market Outlook” notes that UMA and Call...

Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. and Nokia Siemens Networks have agreed to cooperate on LTE base station products. The companies jointly responded to the request by Japan's biggest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. for its Super 3G (LTE) Base Station project, and Panasonic Mobile Communications has been selected as...

At a special meeting on December 10, shareholders of Andrew Corp. overwhelmingly approved the company’s merger agreement with CommScope Inc. Andrew and CommScope now have received all necessary approvals and clearances to complete the transaction, which was announced June 27. Andrew currently expects the merger to close on December...

Chuck Fox – Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Jazz Semiconductor spoke with Microwave Journal editor, David Vye about the new .18um CMOS process, the Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal Initiative and how their latest Silicon technology is ready to deliver the single chip radio. Appointed Vice President of Sales and...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Radiocommunication Assembly approved developments for its 3G standards on Oct. 24, paving the way for deployment of a range of voice, data and multimedia services to stationary and mobile devices. Meeting ahead of the World Radio­­com­munication Conference (WRC-07), which commenced Oct. 22 in Geneva,...

A new report by Juniper Research calculates the number of mobile WiMAX subscribers will exceed 80 million by 2013. The biggest surge in growth, says the research firm, will happen after 2010. Juniper’s projections assume a wide range of attractive devices will be available on the market within three...

The speculation about what Sprint plans to do with WiMAX is spinning up to furious proportions as news spread that the provider could spin off its service into another company. A Bloomberg news report on Monday said that Sprint Nextel's acting CEO, Paul Saleh, told investors that the carrier...

Tokyo-based OMRON Corp. today announced the introduction of a global WiMAX band polymer antenna, the HAWK-WMX, for laptops, notebooks, tablet and ultra-mobile PCs. The smaller antenna fits under the lid of notebook computers, enabling manufacturers to design smaller and lighter models. The HAWK-WMX employs the high dielectric polymer material...

Among the clamor of some financial analysts for Sprint to get out of WiMAX to focus on short term strategies that would boost earnings, Sprint has issued statements that they remain strongly committed to deploying WiMAX. Many in the press and on Wall Street jumped to the conclusion that...

Innovators in the wireless world got a cautionary reminder last week that early adopters often end up with arrows in their backs. WiMAX, an upstart wireless-communications technology that has been hyped to high heaven, received its first serious setback. The technology’s two leading proponents scrapped an agreement that would...