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Europe : Motorola will carry groundbreaking Long Term Evolution (LTE) work and expanding WiMAX and Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployments into a projected expansion of broadband in 2009. The leading provider of wired and wireless broadband solutions wrapped up 2008 with historic demonstrations, including the industry's first CDMA to LTE network handoff, and a steady drumbeat of WiMAX ...

Hong Kong : Comba Telecom Systems introduced its new WiMAX-compatible remote radio unit (RRU) to the global market. The RRU is a highly integrated base station RF unit which can be detached from the BBU (Base Band Unit) and fed with baseband signals through optical fiber. Its high power efficiency design and flexible configuration dramatically reduces CAPEX and...

Europe : "For the development of WiMAX products, shortening the time to achieve product certification through effective testing is a critical success factor in the evolving WiMAX ecosystem,” says Vijay Harikumar, Director of Global Sales and Marketing, Anite. Anite, a global leader in testing technology for the wireless industry, today announced the launch of its Mobile WiMAX Host ...

Canada : AFORE Solutions unveiled its EtherPACK lossless data compression and EtherSECURE encryption technologies as part of its Accelerated Secure Ethernet suite of solutions. AFORE is partnering with networking equipment vendors to embed its advanced technology solutions into mobile base stations, microwave backhaul systems, broadband access devices and networking gateways. "While ...

US : Frost & Sullivan will host a live web briefing on Thursday, 30 October 2008 at 15.00 GMT to provide industry participants with an overview on Mobile WiMAX and European Cellular Markets. All skepticism and hype associated with Mobile WiMAX is expected to be put to rest in 2008, with operators launching commercial services based on the technology. Despite being termed "Mobile WiMAX", ...

UK :Research and Markets announced the addition of the "The Road to 4G: LTE and WiMAX Lead the Way Worldwide" report to their offering. 4G technologies are considered those which are expected to meet the ITU’s IMT-Advanced requirements, i.e., LTE Advanced and IEEE 802.16m WiMAX, with LTE Advanced and 802.16m WiMAX being the enhanced versions of LTE and 802.16e WiMAX, respectively. Both LTE...

UK : BT cut Wi-Fi rates by up to 50 per cent as it launched a new, simple, great value price structure. More than 2,500 extra European hotspots are also being added, bringing the choice of places to connect to more than 50,000 overseas, and over 100,000 UK and Ireland locations. Four new tariffs make the popular wireless broadband service great value at as little as ½p per minute, for use ...