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AT&T is calling foul on a new $400 million contract awarded by the state of Florida to a rival. The U.S.’ No. 2 carrier filed a complaint with Florida’s Department of Management Services contending the state's current governor,...
LGS Innovations L.L.C., a U.S. subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent that serves the U.S. government, and Wavesat Inc. announced a collaboration agreement to develop 4G mobile device equipment and technology for private and public network applications. Wavesat will provide LGS with 4G silicon, software, reference designs...
Harris Corp. (HRS) and Nokia Siemens Networks have teamed up to develop an LTE network solution targeted at public-safety markets. The VIDA Broadband LTE solution is a complete 700 MHz Broadband Long Term Evolution network solution that includes NSN's LTE technology and is...
Whenever two fierce competitors talk collaboration, people listen.That's the case with today's announcement that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and LG Electronics Co. Ltd. will jointly pursue a mobile/handheld, digital TV standard for North America's broadcast TV industry. The two companies had been pursuing competing...
The field of technologies and systems vying for industrywide recognition as the standard for mobile broadcast television has reached 11, with three proposing a complete system while the others are focusing on key links in the framework, such as audio codec.The Advanced Television Systems...
Analysis of three Harris polls from late last year offered insight into U.S. consumers and their relationship to telecom, particularly the trend toward wireless substitution. A total of more than 6,700 adults were surveyed in the online polls, and the respondents revealed that: --81%...
Nursing home, lobster films drawtop honors at CellFlix Film FestivalFollowing a blind judging process masking school affiliation and biographical information, professional filmmakers and editors have selected the winners of the second annual CellFlix Film Festival at Ithaca College that challenges aspiring filmmakers to create...
Rather than ceding control of the mobile TV market to the nation's wireless carriers, nine U.S. television broadcast groups have formed an industry alliance called the Open Mobile Video Coalition to speed the development of a mobile variant for digital broadcast TV.The broadcasters, which...
With two technologies already jockeying for play on the nation's digital television airwaves, it was only a matter of time before the TV industry moved to adopt a standard for digital mobile television.Earlier this week, the Advanced Television Systems Committee moved to begin the...
Another technology designed to get people to watch TV beyond the living room is getting ready for its close-up. Mobile-Pedestrian-Handheld technology, or MPH, is an in-band mobile digital television system set to debut later this month at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in...
Television networks relish the thought of re-engaging viewers who no longer get their TV fix at home. And as technology developers work to deliver on that potential in the mobile environment, the outlets available to programmers and consumers continue to grow.Thus, Mobile-Pedestrian-Handheld technology, or...
MELBOURNE, Fla.—Harris Corp. said it signed a definitive agreement to combine its Microwave Communications Division with Stratex Networks Inc. The new company will be called Harris Stratex Networks Inc.Terms of the deal call for Harris to contribute its microwave division along with $25 million...
MELBOURNE, Fla.—Harris Corp. said it signed a definitive agreement to combine its Microwave Communications Division with Stratex Networks Inc. The new company will be called Harris Stratex Networks Inc.Terms of the deal call for Harris to contribute its microwave division along with $25 million...
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—About two in five adult cellular phone subscribers currently are on a family plan, and another one in five is considering a multi-line plan when their current service contracts expire, according to a recent survey by Harris Interactive. The online study was conducted...
The United States is expected to lead the world in the adoption of fixed-mobile convergence through the end of the decade, with 7 percent of voice telephony consumers using an FMC product by 2010, according to a report released last week by Strategy Analytics....
ROCHESTER, N.Y.-More than half of all U.S. adults are considering abandoning fixed-line service for wireless, and 9 percent have already cut the cord, according to a new study from Harris Interactive.The latest results from the firm's quarterly report indicate that while the movement from...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Shares of Harris Corp. jumped Friday after the communications technology provider raised its outlook for fiscal year 2006.After Thursday's closing bell, Harris said demand for its tactical radios would help push its revenue growth to more than 10 percent for the year, and...
SYDNEY, Australia-Broadcast Australia subsidiary The Bridge Networks will team with Telstra on a year-long trial of Australia's first multi-channel mobile TV service using digital video broadcast for handheld (DVB-H) technology.Harris Broadcast Systems, a Cincinnati-based communications company, will provide transmission equipment for the transmissions, which...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Sprint PCS said it has chosen Harris Corp. to provide its network with point-to-point microwave technology.The carrier signed a four-year deal to receive Harris' next-generation microwave radio known as TRuepoint.Sprint said it will use it for CDMA backhaul and EV-DO services,...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE, N.C.-Western Wireless Corp. has selected Harris Corp. to supply radios to expand its network capacity.The provider of rural wireless communications will use Harris' Constellation radios, which feature the high-capacity 4xDS3 interface, in an attempt to grow its network and increase its current...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE, N.C.-Western Wireless Corp. has selected Harris Corp. to supply radios to expand its network capacity.The provider of rural wireless communications will use Harris' Constellation radios, which feature the high-capacity 4xDS3 interface, in an attempt to grow its network and increase its current...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-MTN Nigeria, which operates one of Africa's largest cellular networks, awarded Harris Corp. a $24 million contract to provide its MegaStar 155 radios for MTN's high-capacity backhaul GSM network.MTN, which provides service in 35 cities and more than 80 smaller communities, currently...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-Harris Corp. said Greek telecommunications provider Lannet Communications has deployed its 6 GHz Truepoint microwave radio system for the backbone of its multiservice network.The value of the agreement was not disclosed.
Software-defined radios may be the answer to today's interoperability issues, but carriers and handset makers do not seem overly enthused about adopting the technology because the technological advances gained from SDR may hurt their business models.Why? Because SDR gives "too much flexibility to the...
