By the end of 2013, LTE connections will be close to 80 million, according to ABI Research. This figure will account for connections on both FD-LTE, including that paired with W-CDMA/HSPA and CDMA 1x/EV-DO, and TD-LTE technologies globally. "We are expecting to see more LTE networks lighting up in...

The cellular infrastructure equipment is subject to intense pricing and size pressures. Recently, a Rubik's Cube size base station has been demonstrated. 1 Both cost and size can benefit from reducing the number of circuit elements in a function block. Low noise amplifiers (LNA), fabricated using contemporary semiconductor technologies,...

Juniper Research forecasts a rapid uptake of LTE mobile broadband technology in the next five years but with a very limited global reach. Subscriber levels will attain 428 million by 2016 but will only reach 6 percent of the global subscriber population. Most of this growth is expected to...

Cambridge Broadband Networks’ VectaStar multipoint microwave equipment will be backhauling LTE data as a key element of O2’s trial 4G network in the UK. The superfast network, operating over 40 square kilometers in high traffic areas of Central London is designed to deliver mobile data speeds equivalent to the...

Aeroflex Ltd. , a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp., announced that the TM500 LTE Test Mobile now supports enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (eMBMS) as defined in Release 9 of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard for Long Term Evolution (LTE). The TM500 Test Mobile platform...

Quarter over quarter subscriber increase for LTE and WiMAX was 250 percent and 12 percent, respectively, at the end of October 2011, according to the 16th issue of the 4GCounts Quarterly Report from Maravedis . At the end of Q3 2011, 35 operators had commercially launched FDD LTE. "LTE...

Consumers are demanding more from their mobile devices – including increased bandwidth. They have become accustomed to the near universal data connectivity of smartphones, and are voracious for the applications that continually demand higher and higher data rates. Tablet computers also are becoming more popular, and their demands for...

Accelerated Chinese wireless infrastructure rollouts and the worldwide demand for wireless data have benefited the base station RF power amplifier and RF power device markets, according to ABI Research. The Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, presently accounts for more than 75 percent of the RF power semiconductor devices sold into...

Korea Telecom plans to start its first commercial LTE network in Seoul in November 2011, with Rohde & Schwarz supplying the necessary test and measurement equipment. As part of its plan to provide nationwide LTE coverage by 2013 the South Korean operator is relying on the scalable R&S TS8980...