Europe's telecom network operators on Tuesday said that bandwidth-hungry services like UHDTV (ultra high definition television) and 3DTV should be distributed via cable or satellite instead of competing with other services for spectrum. ...
Panasonic has developed a tiny, low-power chip for sensor networks and Internet-connected appliances, which it says is the first to support a broad range of frequency bands. The new chip, which measures about 5 millimeters square, can ...
NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced the launch of the UCODE 7 UHF IC, which sets a new industry standard for performance, versatility and speed in RFID supply chain applications. Working with key players in the industry including Avery, ...
Analysts offered divergent opinions of T-Mobile USA's "uncarrier" initiatives for no-contract service and low subsidies for mobile devices announced this week. Three praised T-Mobile, the fourth-largest U.S. wireless carrier, for taking ...
Tags: mobile devices, T-Mobile, smartphones
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) is ramping several antenna tuning products with smartphone manufacturers. The devices are meeting the market demand for ...
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Qualcomm today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies, in conjunction with Sierra Wireless and Ericsson, has successfully demonstrated LTE carrier aggregation and Category 4 data rates. LTE carrier aggregation is ...
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ST-Ericsson’s Thor M7450 LTE-Advanced modem, currently being sampled, uses a single radio for carrier aggregation. Called M7450, it supports all relevant 3GPP specified frequency bands having 10 flexible RF ports enabling 17 ...
Qualcomm, with its 50% share of the baseband processor and application processor markets and 86% share of the FDD-LTE modem market, is entering the LTE RF front-end market with a chip-set which works across all the 40 different frequency ...
Orange, Ericsson and Qualcomm have successfully used L-band frequencies to demonstrate the use of supplemental downlink technology on a mobile network, thereby confirming the potential of this approach to increase mobile broadband capacity ...
Tags: Mobile Broadband Capacity, Orange's network, trial system
ST-Ericsson has cranked its forthcoming smartphone processor up to 3GHz. The quad-core NovaThor L8580 will include a PowerVR graphics processor and an LTE modem with support VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and next-generation LTE technology carrier ...
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched the AWB7224 small-cell power amplifier (PA), optimized to deliver a combination of efficiency, linearity, output power ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has introduced two new high-performance Multi-band, Multi-mode Power Amplifiers (MMPAs). The highly integrated MMPAs support more ...
Maxim Integrated Products has announced it latest small cell RF transceiver which supports all 3G and 4G LTE frequency bands. The company believes small cell basestations will play a strategic part in the rollout of 4G services both ...
Tags: MWC, Multi-Band LTE, Small Cells
Microsoft is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband access using TV white spaces and solar-powered base stations, as part of a long-term strategy to spread mobile telephony and ...
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Nujira says the first 4G LTE smartphones to use its power efficient RF technology will be on the market next year. “In the past it was an aspiration to get envelope-tracking (ET) technology designed into volume handsets, now we know ...
Tags: Nujira, 4G LTE smartphones, RF technology