Looking for a little brotherly love, RCR Wireless News is hitting the streets of Philadelphia the week of June 6, as part of our global tour. As with every stop on our global tour, conference series and news desk, our team will engage the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Wi-Fi technology, which used to be the red-headed step child of wireless operators, is getting renewed interest from those operators as carriers look to offload traffic from their 3G networks onto Wi-Fi systems, a move welcome by Ruckus Wireless, a six-year-old private company that...
Clearwire Corp. may not have the father of WiMAX under its wing in Chief Strategy Officer Scott Richardson, but he could very well be considered the father-in-law of WiMAX, Richardson said in a keynote last week at WiMAX World USA in Chicago. Clearwire's mission...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will use ArrayComm L.L.C.'s smart antenna technology in its wireless base stations, the companies announced.ArrayComm said its antenna technology is designed to help equipment providers boost system range, capacity, data rates and coverage quality on W-CDMA, HSDPA and...
Sprint Nextel Corp. reported a deal with Samsung Telecommunications America LLP to jointly test network equipment based on the 802.16e WiMAX standard using Sprint Nextel's 2.5 GHz spectrum. The companies said the agreement will involve testing prototype terminals and supporting core network equipment designed...
CHICAGO-Motorola Inc. used its annual analyst meeting here to paint a portrait of itself as a sleek, lean, high-tech firm with plans to sit alongside such well-known consumer brands as Apple Computer Inc. and Nike Inc. And to verify its progress, Motorola released a...
BUNDANG, Korea-Korean systems integrator Posdata and ArrayComm L.L.C. announced an agreement that calls for Posdata to incorporate ArrayComm's smart antenna software in its high-performance base station.The companies said the agreement should lead to improvements in system range, capacity and coverage for 802.16e networks. ArrayComm's...
Sprint Corp. entered into an agreement with Motorola Inc. to conduct joint wireless broadband technology testing and equipment trials using Motorola 802.16e pre-WiMAX technology in Sprint's 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings. The two companies said the collaboration will spur the development of WiMAX technology, validate...
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. and Vivato Inc. have partnered to provide wireless networks operators with a Wi-Fi solution.The companies plan to jointly market, install and service their solution, which will use Andrew's global distribution and wireless systems integration expertise with Vivato's smart antenna products....
SAN FRANCISCO-Vivato launched the VP2200, an 802.11g indoor Wi-Fi base station.The solution features Vivato's smart antenna technology based on its PacketSteering technology, which it said extends 802.11b and 802.11g signals up to 12 times farther than industrial-grade access points. "We leveraged our smart antenna...
Quietly operating in the background of the industry, InterDigital Communications Corp. describes itself as a wireless think tank. And though few recognize the name or understand the business, over the course of its 30-year history InterDigital has managed to inject its innovations into the...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-Investors reacted harshly to a decline in InterDigital Communications Corp.'s net income, sending the company's stock down almost 15 percent after the news to about $21 per share.InterDigital's net income in the fourth quarter clocked in at $1.1 million, down from...
NEW YORK-Smart-antenna technology is now deployed in one of every 10 base stations in the works, according to new research from Visant Strategies Inc. The research group expects the smart antenna systems market to grow to $1.6 billion by 2008, fueled by the economic...
DALLAS, Texas-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has demonstrated a 30-fold increase in UMTS radio capacity, using new multiple input, multiple output and multibeam smart antenna technologies."Using these innovations, Nortel Networks has demonstrated wireless data applications, including streaming video, large file transfers and video conferencing,...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. released a new chip the company said will work as a smart antenna for CDMA networks, doubling the networks' capacity for voice and data traffic.The new application-specific integrated circuit will work in Lucent's newly released Flexent Modular Cell 4.0...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. released a new chip the company said will work as a smart antenna for CDMA networks, doubling the networks' capacity for voice and data traffic.The new application-specific integrated circuit will work in Lucent's newly released Flexent Modular Cell 4.0...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies released a new chip the company said will work as a smart antenna for CDMA networks, doubling the networks' capacity for voice and data traffic.The new application-specific integrated circuit will work in Lucent's newly released Flexent Modular Cell 4.0 base...
INDIANA, Pa.-YourInter.Net, a regional Internet service provider, has deployed Navini Networks Inc. nomadic wireless technology to provide broadband access to its customers.The Navini Ripwave 2.4 GHz system deployment covers the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus, Indiana Borough and parts of White Township. The system...
NEW ORLEANS-Smart antenna maker Metawave Communications Corp. said it has delivered its initial commercial SmartShare product to a subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp."Together, we have removed the doubts traditionally associated with shared antenna systems by enabling independently optimized antenna patterns for each wireless...
ROCKVILLE, Md.—Mobilepro Corp. announced its NeoReach Inc. subsidiary, which develops modem solutions to support third-generation wireless services, has filed five patent applications and has been notified by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that two have been approved and the review process is under...
OTTAWA—Sprint PCS and Nortel Networks completed trials using Nortel's CDMA smart antenna technology, which Nortel said is designed to provide double the voice capacity of Sprint's current antenna technology using existing radio spectrum.The trials were conducted using Nortel Networks' Metro Cell product platform over...
OTTAWA—Sprint PCS and Nortel Networks completed trials using Nortel's CDMA smart antenna technology, which the company said is designed to provide double the voice capacity of Sprint's current antenna technology using existing radio spectrum. The trials were conducted using Nortel Networks' Metro Cell...
