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...

To explore LTE technology and its possibilities, the independent research organisation TNO, is launching a trial in cooperation with Huawei. A test network will be set up on the outskirts of Delft, the Netherlands, with a number of market players and user groups scheduled to take part in the...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the newest release of its W1716 Digital Pre-Distortion Builder (DPD) software, designed to enable the high levels of wireless performance necessary for emerging wideband standards such as LTE-Advanced and IEEE 802.11ac. The software creates an interactive RF/baseband platform for 4G modeling by linking the user’s...