Airband Raises $20 Million for Fixed Wireless

Airband Communications, which delivers fixed-wireless voice and data services to businesses in 17 U.S. markets, has raised $20 million in new financing from ABRY Partners. The money will be used to accelerate Airband's growth both organically and through mergers and acquisitions. Airband currently operates in Atlanta; Austin; Baltimore; Dallas; Des Moines; Fort Lauderdale; Fort Worth; Houston; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Miami; Orange County, Calif.;...

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Verizon Counts 90 Acts of Sabotage

On day five of the strike by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Verizon reported a growing amount of sabotage to its network facilities. Since August 6, the company said it has recorded more than 90 acts of sabotage, some of which have directly affected service to thousands of customers across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, including police stations and other emergency responders. Verizon...

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Telstra Returns to EBITDA Growth with Faster Customer Additions

Telstra reported full fiscal year sales revenue of A$24,983 million, up by 0.7%. EBITDA declined by 6.4% or $696 million to $10,151 million, beating guidance and including second half sales revenue growth of 1.8% and EBITDA growth of 0.7%. Telstra also announced free cash flow of $5.5 billion, the addition of more than two million mobile customers in Australia and Hong Kong, and an EBITDA decline of $696 million which was slightly better than expectations...

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Huawei Supplies TD-LTE to China Mobile Test for Shenzhen University Games

China Mobile has deployed a TD-LTE demonstration network in Shenzhen to provide exclusive coverage for the 26th World University Games. The network uses equipment from Huawei. The company said it is delivering stable connections at 60 - 70 Mbps in the downlink.http://www.huawei....

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Huawei Supplies TD-LTE to China Mobile Test for Shenzhen University Games

China Mobile has deployed a TD-LTE demonstration network in Shenzhen to provide exclusive coverage for the 26th World University Games. The network uses equipment from Huawei. The company said it is delivering stable connections at 60 - 70 Mbps in the downlink.http://www.huawei....

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India's Aircel Test's Huawei's LTE-TDD

India's Aircel has conducted the first GSM/UMTS/LTE-TDD trial on its existing GSM/UMTS network using devices based on Qualcomm's MDM9600 multimode chipset. Huawei supplied its SingleRAN, SingleCore system for this trial. Huawei and Qualcomm jointly executed Inter-RAT (Inter-Radio Access Technology）related cases covering multiple live handover scenarios across GSM/UMTS/LTE technologies. Other high speed data services were demonstrated, including video streaming via YouTube, video on demand and high definition video surveillance, which met the key...

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ActiveVideo Files For Injunction Against Verizon FiOS

ActiveVideo Networks, which last week was awarded damages totaling $115 million in a jury trial of the company's patent infringement suit against Verizon, has now filed for an injunction to prevent further use of its technology in Verizon's FiOS TV service.ActiveVideo said it is seeking to protect is rights as the inventor of technology used in the delivery of advanced television applications such as video-on-demand (VOD) and interactive TV. Specifically, the company points to four key patents:United States Patent No. 6,034,678, titled "Cable...

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TE-NORTH Cable Delvers 40G Wavelengths Across Mediterranean

Telecom Egypt's 3,600km TE-NORTH Cable System, which connects Abu Talat, Egypt to Marseille, France, has entered service offering 40G wavelengths across the Mediterranean. To implement the upgrade, Alcatel-Lucent used its latest 1620 Light Manager product, previously deployed as part of the original US$125 million contract, and which was subsequently upgraded to 40G. To demonstrate the upgradeability of the TE North system, a field trial was conducted...

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AT&T to Deliver Juniper Pulse for Mobile Device Security

AT&T will leverage the Juniper Networks' Junos Pulse solution as part of a new AT&T Mobile Security application – is expected to be available later this year.AT&T said this new agreement with Juniper is part of its mobile security strategy to manage and protect smartphones and customer information. The carrier is seeking "to provide a comprehensive security solution that will integrate wireline and wireless security policies for consumer,...

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GSMA Appoints France Telecom Orange Exec as new Head

The GSMA appointed Anne Bouverot as its new head. Bouverot was most recently executive vice president of mobile services for France Telecom Orange. She has served on the board of the GSMA for the past two years.Bouverot replaces long-standing CEO Rob Conway, who announced his resignation in June. However, Bouverot will not assume the label of CEO, instead taking the title of the GSMA's Director General to better reflect the GSMA's role as an association...

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LightSquared Blames GPS Receivers for Spectrum Interference

LightSquared is blaming the GPS industry's failure to comply with the Department of Defense's (DoD) filtering standards for interference issues involving its proposed broadband wireless network. DoD standards issued in September 2008 calls for GPS receivers to filter out transmissions from adjacent bands in order to achieve the performance intended to be provided by the GPS system. LightSquared said the GPS industry has ignored the DoD standard and spurned international recommendations for GPS receiver design. Whereas the DoD standard grants...

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Spirent Reports Growth in Wireless Testing

Citing the ongoing demand for data service on mobile devices, and the continued global deployment of LTE, Spirent Communications reported strong results for its wireless test products during the first half of 2011. The company said it is benefiting from the need for additional testing capacity at both network operators and device manufacturers. Some of the highlights of Spirent's performance in this area include:Increased order intake for LTE device testing solutions threefold over the same period in 2010More than doubled order intake for location...

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ABI Research Predicts Booming Picocell Market

ABI Research is predicting rapid expansion of the outdoor picocell market, growing from its early stages of development to reach $8 billion in global revenues by 2016. Several companies, including Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Bel-Air, Airspan, and NEC, have announced trial deployments with mobile operators. Other vendors working on developing solutions include NSN, Ericsson, and ZTE. These outdoor picocells, which plug onto utility poles, lamp posts, and rooftops, are in response to the burgeoning smartphone market. "Mobile operators have already started...

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