At the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2016) in Barcelona, Spain (22–25 February), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and ...
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Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp is expanding its lineup of gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistors (GaN HEMTs) for use in base transceiver stations (BTS) operating in the 3.5GHz band of fourth generation (4G) mobile ...
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Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting and the City of San Jose officially announced a project to pilot 50 Philips SmartPoles, which bring together energy efficient LED lighting and fully integrated 4G LTE wireless technology by ...
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Walking around the recent Mobile World Congress and its parallel show Four Years From Now, it was hard to miss all the cars parked in the show booths. Over the last few years, cars have had an increasingly noticeable presence at the ...
Philips has partnered with communications technology provider Ericsson to jointly launch a connected LED street lighting model. The partnership will see the lighting manufacturer incorporate mobile telecoms equipment from Ericsson into ...
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Ericsson used Thursday’s Mobile Money Global event to highlight the rapid change in regional consumer behaviours around the use of mobile money. Rajiv Bhatia, Head of EMEA Mobile Commerce Sales, Ericsson, discussed how the shift ...
The UK's rail industry is to roll out high-speed mobile broadband across the rail network. The plans, which will be funded by the rail industry, were announced by the transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin, who said that people would ...
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Assurant, a US-based provider of specialty insurance and insurance-related products and services, has agreed to acquire British mobile phone insurance provider Lifestyle Services in an all-cash deal of $160m from Phones 4u Finance. ...
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While 4G is changing how quickly consumers can access data, it is also evolving how mobile network operators (MNOs) need to compete. Yankee Group's report "10 Ways 4G Changes Competition" examines how MNOs can get to market early, launch ...
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Fourth generation (4G) cellular via the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard is transforming the entire mobile communications ecosystem. One of the profound ways that mobile will never be the same is the wide range of applications that will ...
The European Commission has sent a questionnaire to a number of mobile operators in the European Union, focusing on whether its distribution terms with these providers may put Apple at an advantage over other smartphone makers, according to ...
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European Union antitrust regulators are collecting information to determine whether Apple's iPhone contract deals with various telecoms operators have been designed to shut out rival smartphone makers, such as Samsung, HTC and Nokia. ...
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Burgeoning markets in developing countries are favouring simpler hardware providers like Nokia over more high-end producers like Apple. While Apple's dominance in western markets is set to be tested today (14 March) by the launch of ...
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CBR rounds up expert comments on the 4G auction winner announcement and what this means for the future of mobile broadband in the UK. Gary Marven, CEO of MLL Telecom As a UK focused telecoms operator and existing spectrum owner we are ...
2,341,113,000 Euro was raised although the auction was expected to generate at least 3.5bn Euro. After more than 50 rounds of bidding Vodafone, Telefónica UK, EE, Hutchison 3G UK and Niche Spectrum Venutres have won spectrum. ...
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