CTIA: CAPEX Hits All Time High for U.S. Operators

U.S. mobile operators invested $30 billion in their networks in 2012, representing an all time high in capital expenditure spending for one year.  This is part of a "virtuous cycle" that is boosting the networking industry and the American economy, said Steve Largent, President of CTIA, speaking at the opening of CTIA 2013 in Las Vegas. The CAPEX spending by U.S. operators accounted for 25% of all wireless network CAPEX worldwide.  It...

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CTIA: Verizon Wireless Confirms Small Cell Rollout for 2H 2013 with Ericsson

Verizon Wireless will begin rollout of small cells in its LTE network in the second half of 2013.  The small cells will be installed strategically to add capacity to high traffic areas and extend coverage to hard-to-reach locations and indoor sites. Ericsson will be providing its micro RRUS (Remote Radio Unit) small cells for Verizon's 4G LTE network. The micro RRUS works with any baseband unit part of the RBS 6000 product line. The introduction...

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CTIA: Nokia Siemens Networks Enables Cellular / Wi-Fi Traffic Steering

Nokia Siemens Networks is introducing traffic steering capabilities for its Smart Wi-Fi solution . The new capabilities give operators real-time information about their own or partnered Wi-Fi access points. Operators can then enhance customer experience with dynamic traffic steering between cellular and Wi-Fi networks based on real-time network load. The traffic steering capabilities can be complemented with sophisticated ANDSF* rules based on...

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CTIA: Ericsson Supports Wi-Fi Traffic Steering for Mobile Operators

Ericsson introduced 3GPP compliant Wi-Fi network access, control and management solutions that enable mobile operators to incorporate Wi-Fi in their heterogeneous network strategy, while delivering a consistently high-performance user experience, even in high traffic areas. Ericsson's real time traffic steering provides the ability to automatically selects the best connection. The network constantly assesses key performance indicators in both the...

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CTIA: NVIDIA Showcases Tegra 4i with LTE-Advanced Modem

At this week's CTIA in Las Vegas, NVIDIA is showcasing its Tegra 4i mobile processor for mainstream smartphones with an integrated NVIDIA i500 LTE modem performing at 150 Mbps in the downlink. Earlier this year at Mobile World Congress in February, the same demo was operating at 100 Mbps.  The performance boost is achieved with a software update for NVIDIA’s software-defined radio technology. Tegra 4i’s modem is also multi-mode -- it delivers...

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CTIA: Ericsson Cites Growing LTE Deployment with Rural U.S. Operators

Ericsson cited a growing number of LTE wins with regional wireless operators across the U.S.   Over the past several months, multiple regional operators in the United States have selected Ericsson as their LTE partner of choice, including: Adams NetWorks (Illinois) - LTE network covering key markets in the western portions of Illinois. Carolina West (North Carolina) - LTE network covering parts of its...

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CTIA: Sprint Announces Tri-Band LTE Devices

Sprint announced the summer launch of a trio of mobile broadband devices that will take advantage of three bands of 4G LTE wireless spectrum available to Sprint’s network: 1.9GHz and 800MHz as well as Clearwire’s LTE network at 2.5GHz. The first tri-band Sprint 4G LTE-capable mobile broadband devices will be the sleek MiFi 500 LTE by Novatel Wireless, international-capable NETGEAR Zing Mobile Hotspot and the plug-in NETGEAR 341U USB Modem....

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Mignon Clyburn Takes Over as Acting Chairwoman of FCC

Mignon Clyburn officially took over as Acting  Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission.  She is the first woman to hold the chair at the FCC. Clyburn has served on the FCC since July 2009.  She previously was a member of South Carolina's Public Service Commission, which regulates the state's investor owned public utilities, including providers of telecommunications services. http://www.fcc.gov In April, President Obama...

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Sprint Ups its Bid for Clearwire

Sprint announce a new bid of $3.4 per share to acquire the approximately 50 percent stake in Clearwire that it does not currently own. This values Clearwire at $10.7 billion. Sprint's increased offer represents a 14 percent premium to Sprint’s previous offer of $2.97 announced on Dec. 17, 2012 and a 162 percent premium to Clearwire's closing share price the day before the Sprint-SoftBank discussions were first confirmed in the marketplace on Oct....

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Octasic Announces New Small Cell Platform

Octasic introduced its newest Small Cell platform, the OCTBTS 4000, which provides OEMs with baseband hardware and software, three RF front ends, and an application processor. The OCTBTS 4000 allows simultaneous 2G, 3G, and 4G operation in a compact (170x170 mm) form factor with passive cooling. Capacity ranges from 16 to 100 active users across multiple cellular standards and channels. Featuring Octasic’s OCT2224W baseband processor and a power...

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Microsoft Reveals XboxOne Specifications

Microsoft unveiled its Xbox One, an all-in-one gaming and entertainment system for the largest screen in the house.  Xbox One aims to put the consumer at the center of games, TV, movies, music, sports and Skype. Here are a few key features An eight-core, x86 processor and more than 5 billion transistors 8GB of RAM 500 GB HDD HDMI in and out ports  USB 3.0 802.11n wireless Blu-ray disc player 1080p Kinect camera  Snap --...

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Marvell Intros Quad-core 5-mode Category 4 LTE Single-chip Modem

Marvell introduced a quad-core 5-mode Category 4 LTE single-chip solution supporting LTE TDD and FDD, High Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+), Time Division High Speed Packet Access Plus (TD-HSPA+) and Enhanced Data for GSM Environment (EDGE). The Marvell PXA1088 platform incorporates the performance of a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 with advanced Avastar wireless connectivity, including WLAN + Bluetooth 4.0 + FM single-chip SoC and the L2000 GNSS Hybrid...

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Ericsson to Close its Cables Operation in Sweden

Ericsson has begun the process of closing its telecom cables operation within business unit Networks. The company said the market for copper cable has declined over the last few years and production has shifted towards Asia. "It is a tough message to bring to our colleagues in the telecom cable operations in Hudiksvall and Stockholm today. The decision is based on the fact that Ericsson's production of telecom cables is small from a global perspective,...

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RASCOM and Ciena Light First 100G Link from Russia to Western Europe

Russia's RASCOM is deploying Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform for a 100G upgrade of a route connecting Russia to Western Europe. This critical international network provides RASCOM’s wholesale and enterprise customers with a fully redundant ring architecture supporting cross-border traffic and the region’s first 100GE services. RASCOM operates a 8,600 km next-generation international network covering key geographical areas for cross-border...

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