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Winchester Electronics Acquires Advance Interconnect and Kings Electronics

Winchester Electronics Corp. announced that it has acquired the assets of Advanced Interconnect Inc., Franklin, MA, and Kings Electronics Co. Inc.
Winchester Electronics Corp. announced that it has acquired the assets of Advanced Interconnect Inc. , Franklin, MA, and Kings Electronics Co. Inc. , Rock Hill, SC. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed. “This is a significant step forward for Winchester Electronics,” said Michael Driscoll, president and CEO of...
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Keithley Instruments: Wireless Industry’s Future Holds Significant Testing Challenges

Mark Elo Marketing Director, Wireless Business Keithley Instruments Inc.
The 2007 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium offers Keithley two important opportunities. The first, obviously, is to demonstrate the value of our products to a broad range of industry insiders; the second is to gain insights and knowledge from the experts on the fast-changing technologies on which the industry...
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Sprint Nextel’s Launch Puts the ‘Why?’ in WiMAX

If 2007 is, as some have suggested, the year WiMAX enters the telecom fray for real, then Sprint Nextel is carrying the banner onto the battlefield.
If 2007 is, as some have suggested, the year WiMAX enters the telecom fray for real, then Sprint Nextel is carrying the banner onto the battlefield. With plenty of 2.5 GHz spectrum and the initiative to use it, the carrier could change the telecom landscape. In March, Sprint Nextel...
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Sprint Nextel hedges wireless bets

U.S. carrier is pursuing a twin-pronged broadband wireless strategy — WiMAX and 3G — and a partnership with cable operators.
In March, Sprint Nextel made two simultaneous and — some might argue — contradictory announcements about its broadband wireless strategy. The US carrier underlined its intention to launch WiMAX this year via a thick swathe of 2.5 GHz spectrum it owns — even going so far as to call...
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More Than Hedging Bets

Nokia Siemens Networks Finds Use For Flexi Platform As It Expands To WiMAX
Nokia Siemens Networks didn’t have to look very far—or do much development work—to create a base station platform for the 2.5/3.5 GHz WiMAX radios it will be deploying in 2008 as part of Sprint Nextel’s nationwide WiMAX rollout. Everything the vendor wanted to provide its customers--smaller size, improved power...
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NextWave Acquires IPWireless

Adds Another Piece To Expanding Mobile Broadband Technology Offering
NextWave Wireless will spend up to $135 million to add IPWireless’ TD-CDMA technology to its already packed technology portfolio as yet another piece in a “customer-driven” mobile broadband offering, the company promises. That extra piece, however, might not be so easily digested for a company that has shown a...
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Ricochet Hits Denver

WISP Launching ‘Wi-Fi In the Mile High’
Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) Ricochet Networks, a wholly owned subsidiary of TeraBeam, will use a scalable Wi-Fi mesh network to deliver wireless broadband services to the city and county of Denver, starting in the city’s Capitol Hill and Golden Triangle neighborhoods. Sister company Proxim Wireless is providing mesh...
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