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Apple, HTC, More Sued Over Wi-Fi, LTE Patents

September 7, 2011

Canadian patent holder Wi-Lan has sued Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and more for allegedly violating Wi-Lan owned technologies used in CDMA, HSPA, Wi-Fi, and LTE networks.

Global LTE Macro Base Station Deployments to Reach 1.5 Million by 2015

September 7, 2011

With an enormous amount of capital in play, the battle for LTE base station deployment has attracted both small and heavy hitting suitors alike. New In-Stat research details the biggest winners in the LTE infrastructure build-out sweepstakes

VIEWPOINT: Rural America needs next-gen wireless network

September 4, 2011

We all know that access to high-quality, affordable wireless service can be difficult in rural areas. We’ve all experienced phone calls dropped in mid-sentence or seeing the words “no service,” emails that take hours to send and websites that never load.

Freescale enters small-cell base stations market

September 1, 2011

Many cellular operators today are into a series of 4G trials to upgrade their current 3G network infrastructure's Quality of Service. Freescale Semiconductor Inc., on the other hand, is focused on testing wireless small-cell base stations designed primarily for picocells and femto cells.

Evolutions Blog

Re-Allocating Bandwidth

on September 14, 2011

It’s a measure of how profound a change wireless broadband is making in the modern lifestyle that folks are seriously looking into reallocating bandwidth to meet the swelling demand for wireless connectivity.

Full Duplex Technology Dawning

on September 7, 2011

Researchers at Rice University have invented a way for mobile carriers to double the capacity of wireless networks without adding a single tower or base station.

Patent Wars

on August 31, 2011

For wireless developers the current patent situation bears watching. What has typically been the occasional legal battle is evolving into a full scale war.

Rein In App Gluttony

on August 24, 2011

Apps have to be engaging, interactive, and provide some value that will encourage users to throw at least a few dollars toward the developers. Now there are calls for a new consideration: minimize bandwidth demands.

Featured Resources

LTE Resource Guide

This LTE Resource Guide provides in-depth knowledge of LTE and Next Generation Networks and serves as an excellent educational and reference tool on the technology. Areas covered include modulation formats, network components, frame structures, and physical channels and signals.

LTE White Paper

This paper provides an introduction to the fundamental radio and network technologies being introduced for the evolution of mobile networks and how this is aligned into the future Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) of Next Generation Networks.

LTE Signaling Tester

Mobile UEs are quickly becoming fast multimedia terminals due to widespread adoption of the next-generation LTE radio communications standard. The Signaling Tester is a key LTE base station simulator for developing LTE-compliant chipsets and mobile devices and serves as a powerful LTE protocol R&D test solution to help developers bring LTE terminals to market as fast as possible.