Novatel WIreless recently announced the successful completion of a data transmission call using LTE technology. Though specifications weren’t revealed, Novatel noted that they are working with operators planning to launch LTE commercial data devices later this year. LTE provides high data rates of up to 100 Mbps on the uplink and 50 Mbps on the downlink. “We [...]

Fourteen LTE patent owners from eight countries met in San Francisco last week to create the framework for a patent pool to endorse the adoption of the LTE standard worldwide. “With LTE deployment now an operator reality, the economic logic of moving development cycles ahead to commercialization through patent pools is stronger than ever before,” said [...]

Interphase, a Plano-based developer of networking cards and related products, is working with semiconductor supplier MindSpeed on a new wireless base station product. According to the firms, Interphase will be using MindSpeed’s baseband processors on its iSPAN 36701 Wireless Base Station Advanced Mazzanine Card. Both firms have said that the card provides LTE capability in conjunction [...]

NEC Corporation announced yesterday that it will be demonstrating their LTE concept terminal at Mobile World Congress 2010, February 15-18 in Barcelona, Spain. The concept terminal shows the transmission of high resolution through its “LTE-PF” equipped communications platform and highlights the advantages of high-speed LTE communications. The exhibition will feature dynamic live-action demonstrations featuring high-speed streaming of [...]

The independent Swiss network quality measurement company, SwissQual just carried out test drives of the new TeliaSonera LTE network in Stockholm. Measurements were taken using the Samsung Kalmia LTE 4G modem mounted in the SwissQual Diversity Optimizer. The Diversity Optimizer has been designed to easily integrate new handsets and modems for emerging technologies like LTE. The [...]