CDMA
MediaTek 2G Market Share
Source: Morgan Stanley
The key messages from management on 2G handsets were: 1. MediaTek believes the 2G export market is still significant as its market share in most EM markets outside of China is still below 30-35%, 2. The transition to SoC should reach cross over in shipments around mid-2010, 3. The company will layer [...]
Aeroflex PXI 3000 Series Modular Test Platform Expands 2G and 3G Wireless Testing Capabilities
Expanded Measurement Capabilities Make the PXI 3000 Series One of the Most Comprehensive Software-Defined Communications Test Platforms Available
Wichita, KS—July 23, 2009—Aeroflex today announced the addition of new communications standards to its PXI 3000 Series modular test platform, now enabling communications test engineers to address a variety of 2G and 3G wireless data standards with a [...]
ZTE Launches Industry First LTE and EV-DO Rev.B Dual-Mode System at EXPO COMM Wireless Japan 2009
22 July 2009, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced that it has launched an industry-first LTE and EV-DO Rev.B Dual-Mode System at the opening of EXPO COMM Wireless Japan 2009, the only [...]
Intermec Introduces the Industry’s Most Advanced Rugged 3G Mobile Computers
The product page says: The CN50 is built on a unique multiprocessor architecture with dedicated ARM and DSP processors to deliver robust application processing with nearly instantaneous response, all at the lowest levels of power consumption. The standard battery is suitable for uninterrupted full shift use in most applications. For extreme-duty applications, the extended-life battery [...]
VZW easing data caps, launching netbooks
Telephony Unfiltered reports Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ, NYSE:VOD) wants you to buy a wireless netbook. To entice you, it is easing up on its data usage restrictions. The CDMA operator today announced plans to offer the HP Mini 1151NR netbook with embedded 3G in stores, starting Sunday, and while it isn’t doing away with data caps [...]
Ascom Introduces High Performance LTE Scanner
Ascom Inc. announced The new scanner design supports LTE baseband scanning in the 700 MHz bands while simultaneously supporting EvDO scanning of the 850/1900 MHz bands, simplifying deployment of multi-mode LTE/EvDO systems and offering advanced baseband decoding analysis for LTE deployment. An enhancement of Ascom’s existing leading RF scanner design, this third generation Software-Defined Radio [...]
Alcatel-Lucent Infrastructure Uses SDR for CDMA to LTE Upgrade
Telepedia.ro reports Alcatel-Lucent’s innovative “Converged RAN” offerings support multiple technology standards in a common base station platform and the delivery of a wide variety of new wireless broadband services while simultaneously reducing power consumption and lowering operating costs.
This Converged RAN uses software defined radio (SDR) technology to enable CDMA service providers to deploy one technology [...]
ZTE Unveils North American Strategy for LTE
ZTE USA announced with a Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform-based UMTS solution already developed and devices expected in the next 12-18 months, ZTE is positioned to provide end-to-end solutions for North American operators looking [...]
ZTE first to demonstrate voice over EV-DO Rev B
ZTE announces another technological breakthrough by achieving the world’s first EV-DO Revision B (Rev.B) VoIP Call on its CDMA2000 system, marking the first time in the industry that a CDMA vendor achieves an impressive 9.3 Mbps download rate and 5.4 Mbps upload rate.
Compared with mature commercial EV-DO Rev.A, what ZTE’s EV-DO Rev.B does is to [...]