Infineon
FCC Okays Terrestrial LTE for SkyTerra
Daily wireles reports Infineon, SkyTerra, and TerreStar Networks are jointly developing a multi-standard mobile platform based on Infineon’s software-defined-radio (SDR) technology. Infineon’s SDR mobile platform, called XMM SDR 200, requires only one single baseband device, the X-GOLD™ SDR 20 and one single RF transceiver.
Baseband Market Share by Revenue
Source: Merrill Lynch, BofA, IDC
The exit of Freescale and TI has left the baseband market concentrated around six vendors: Qualcomm, Mediatek, Infineon, Marvell, ST-Ericsson and Broadcom.
While we expect Qualcomm to further consolidate its high market share (through an increased presence at Motorola, share gains at Nokia), we believe that emerging vendors, namely Broadcom and Mediatek [...]
AT&T/TerreStar Ready Satphone Service
Daily Wireless reports that AT&T Mobility will resell satellite service and phones from TerreStar Networks, by the end of this year. TerreStar is scheduled to launch its first monster satellite on July 1st. It uses satellite/cellular handsets designed to be about the same size as a conventional smartphone.
Using licensed 2GHz radio spectrum, it will [...]
Hughes Announces Agreement with SkyTerra and TerreStar to Implement GMR1-3G Satellite Air Interface on Chipset for Wireless Handsets
Following on yesterday’s Infineon SDR-20 socket win, today Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced they are supplying the software for the project.
The press release states: This software will enable the GMR1-3G satellite air interface standard to run side-by-side with cellular standards in a commercially available, software-defined radio (SDR) chipset being developed for SkyTerra and TerreStar Networks [...]
Infineon Emerges with Satellite + Terrestrial SDR design win
Infineon announced that they are working with TerreStar on an SDR platform aimed at satellite-terrestrial handsets operating with multiple cellular and satellite-based communications technologies including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA and GMR1-2G/3G. One year ago TerreStar announced the selection of [...]