Zain Kuwait and Huawei today announced plans to launch a first-of-its-kind joint innovation centre, which will serve as a research hub for the advancement of long-term evolution (LTE) technologies for Zain’s mobile customers in Kuwait ...
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Huawei yesterday bolstered its worldwide consumer offerings with the introduction of the Ascend P2, which it dubbed the world’s fastest smartphone. The smartphone was announced during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the ...
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Etisalat and Alcatel-Lucent today signed a joint agreement to extend Etisalat’s long-term evolution (LTE) coverage across its footprint, including a new partnership in Sri Lanka. By deploying Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio ...
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General Motors (GM) has selected AT&T networks to offer 4G LTE services in its vehicles in the US and Canada. The vehicles to be offered with the services will be the company's cars, trucks and crossovers including the 2015 Chevrolet, ...
Has Sony finally nailed it? From our time using the Xperia Z handset, Sony seems to have achieved exactly that. We found the Xperia Z to be a sophisticated phone. Its 5-inch full HD screen is ultra sharp with 441 pixels per inch ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that several OEMs and smartphone providers are leveraging its SkyOne front-end solution. The SkyOne platform, ...
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Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA has introduced multiple new products to its portfolio of envelope tracking (ET) power management and power amplifier (PA) ...
Smartphones and tablets with the emerging Wi-Fi wireless networking technology, 802.11ac, will arrive early in the second half of this year, a Qualcomm executive said. Mobile devices based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 series processors ...
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Huawei Technologies has expanded its device portfolio with the LTE-equipped Ascend P2 as the company hopes to climb upwards in the smartphone market. The phone supports the latest version of the high-speed LTE data networking system ...
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Alcatel-Lucent's board has appointed Michel Combes as the company's new CEO, following Ben Verwaayen's recent resignation. It only took the Alcatel-Lucent's board two weeks to appoint a new CEO after Verwaayen's plan to step down became ...
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Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg took centre stage as Mobile World Congress got underway this morning by serving the tradition of giving his telecoms predictions for the year ahead. Vestberg also presented a full picture of new products, ...
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Aeroflex says its 7100 digital radio test set now has support for carrier aggregation as used in wideband LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) mobile networks. Carrier aggregation allows multiple radio carriers to be added together, allowing wider ...
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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Rohde & Schwarz has tuned its mid-range measuring instruments to handle WLAN signals in line with IEEE 802.11ac. New options extend the baseband of the SMBV100A vector signal generator to 160MHz, supporting high-speed modes for WLAN IEEE ...
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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 ...