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picoChip sells one million chips, sees revenue growth

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picoChip has announced that it has sold one million chips and is on track to achieve over 50% quarter-on-quarter sequential revenue growth this calendar quarter. 

Ericsson refutes Informa study on LTE patents

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Ericsson expects to hold 25 percent of all essential patents for LTE, making it the largest patent holder in the industry, according to company website. 

South African regulator ICASA extends spectrum application deadline

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South African regulator ICASA (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa)  has extended the closing date for submissions of applications for spectrum in the 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz band

Batelco and Ericsson ink deal for network upgrade

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Bahrain operator Batelco and Ericsson have inked a contract to enhance its mobile network.

Qualcomm looking for 3G partners to deploy LTE

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After winning 4 circles in India's BWA auction, Qualcomm is looking for 3G partners to deploy LTE.

Compact 3G/4G BTS Market Expected to Reach $13 Billion by 2015

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The compact base station market opportunity for 3G/4G networks is expected to reach $13 billion by 2015 with initial deployments being set up in the 2011-12 timeframe, according to a ABI Research w

Rubberduck partners Entel for LTE mobile TV trial in Chile

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Rubberduck Media Lab has confimed that it had been engaged in trials with Entel PCS in Chile for high speed mobile TV over LTE tests. 

RIL acquires Infotel, may opt for TD-LTE

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Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has announced today the acquisition  of Infotel Broadband Services (P) Ltd, which has emerged as a successful bidder in all the 22 circles of the auction for

MultiService Forum Completes IOT of 3GPP EPC

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The MSF (MultiService Forum) has announced completion of the global Evolved Packet Core (EPC) interoperability event.

BWA auction ends, Infotel wins big, Qualcomm gains

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With the auction of BWA spectrum concluding today after 117 rounds over 16 days, the government is set to gain $8.6 billion.

Italian operator Wind selects Huawei for LTE/HSPA+

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Italian telecom operator Wind has selected Huawei for development of HSPA+, LTE mobile networks, core network and fibre optics for ultra-wideband.

Zinwave Receivs FCC Certification for full LTE 700 MHz Spectrum

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Zinwave has announced that its True Wideband active Distributed Antenna System (DAS) solution is the first on the market to receive Long Term Evolution (LTE) certification across the full 700 MHz s

Taiwanese regulator NCC allows upgrade to LTE from WiMAX

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Taiwanese regulator National Communications Commission (NCC) has given postive signals to allow WiMAX opertaors to upgrade LTE using allocated spectrum.

Thailand plans WiMAX & LTE spectrum auction

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Thailand's telecoms regulator National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) plans to auction WiMAX, 3.9G (LTE) licences in September.

Alcatel-Lucent and Telefonica complete LTE calls in Latin America using 700 MHz band

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Alcatel-Lucent and Telefonica have announced that they have successfully performed the first LTE call in Latin America using the 700 MHz frequency band “ which is particularly well suited to delive