Hittite launches 4.5mm2 MMIC LNA covering 0.3-3GHz Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford,MA,USA(which designs and supplies analog,digital and mixed-signal RF,microwave and millimeter-wave ICs,modules and subsystems as well as ...
Tags: Hittite, MMIC LNA, surface-mount package, MMIC
Communications supplier Virgin Media has revolutionised the way it trains staff through cloud-based learning supplier Cornerstone. Virgin Media was the result of the coming together of cable suppliers NTL and Telewest,which were ...
Tags: Virgin Media, cable suppliers, NTL, Telewest, Cornerstone service
Businesses are turning away from traditional fixed phone lines in favour of mobile or internet-based telephony,according to research findings released today. Ofcom's annual communications market report showed the number of business lines ...
Tags: Ofcom, mobile or internet-based telephony, fixed line phones
At Japan's Cable Tech Show 2012 in Tokyo(18-19 July),Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes components,subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,is announcing the addition of the J-Type Medallion 6000 to its ...
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BT has won the tender to provide fibre broadband across rural North Yorkshire, the company confirmed today. The agreement will see the UK's largest county be the first to receive funding from the government's Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) ...
Tags: BT, fibre broadband, internet connections, fibre-to-the-cabinet
Sprint has become the first U.S. wireless carrier to offer an ultrabook, which is being sold with a 3G/4G mobile hotspot device at no added cost. Sprint and Lenovo announced the 13.3-in. IdeaPad U310 ultrabook with a hotspot device for ...
Tags: Sprint, Lenovo, wireless, ultrabook, 3G/4G mobile hotspot device
Rural areas will need to help finance broadband roll-outs if UK schemes for better connectivity are to succeed. This was the conclusion of Conservative MP Rory Stewart, who spoke at the House of Lords' communications select committee ...
Tags: Broadband infrastructure, broadband, wireless, Rural wireless service
The European Commission(EC)plans to have its broadband policy formally adopted by member states by the end of 2012. EC vice-president and leader of the digital agenda,Neelie Kroes,outlined key aspects of the policy during a speech in ...
Tags: EC, Broadband, Policy, Private Sector
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) says that on 21 June Challentech International Corp, its partner for sales ...
The number of connected devices is set to double over the next eight years to 50 billion globally,which could generate$4.5trn(2.9trn pound )to the world economy. But more spectrum will be crucial in achieving a more networked ...
Tags: GSMA, mobile operators, telecoms sector, Networks provider Ericsson
Ofcom today set out proposals to cap the prices BT can charge for leasing its telecoms infrastructure, which it claims will lead to real-time price reductions for most customers. The regulator said the lines, which are rented by companies ...
Tags: Ofcom, BT, telecoms infrastructure, broadband, mobile connectivity
Residents whose TV signal is affected by the 4G roll-out may have to pay for their own solutions to the problem, according to the government minister responsible. The spectrum freed up by the TV switchover from analogue to digital will be ...
Tags: UK, TV switchover, Freeview customers
Broadband providers have "editorial discretion" to give priority to their own Web content, and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules limiting that discretion is a violation of providers' free speech rights, two ...
Tags: Broadband, free speech rights, net neutrality rules, Verizon, MetroPCS
Regulator Ofcom says ISP TalkTalk and mobile operator 3 received more complaints than any of their rivals in the first quarter of 2012. In the latest quarterly report from Ofcom–which names and shames the worst customer offenders in ...
Tags: Ofcom, ISP TalkTalk, broadband, BT
BT is to offer fibre-to-the-premises(FTTP)connections at the request of customers in trials it is launching today. The Openreach arm of the telecoms giant is giving eight areas the opportunity to upgrade their connections to a possible ...
Tags: BT, FTTP, Broadband, UK, FTTC connections