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Bits and Bytes: T-Mobile deploys green site; OfferMobi reaches milestone; and more – RCR Wireless U.S.
RCR Wireless U.S. September 17, 2010 T-Mobile USA launched a solar powered cell site in Chalfont, Penn. The company said it is the first solar cell site it has deployed in the United States. The...
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Reference Design Abets Popular 4G LTE Chipset – Electronic Design
Electronic Design September 15, 2010 According to Altair Semiconductor, its Digital Dividend (Band 20) Reference Design embarks as one of the world's first such designs and the only one that has already completed IOT testing...
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Altair launches Digital Dividend reference design – Telecom Paper
Telecom Paper September 14, 2010 Fabless chip company Altair Semiconductor has announced the commercial availability of its Digital Dividend (Band 20) reference design. The design has completed IOT testing with tier-one infrastructure vendors. Altair's...
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Altair Releases Digital Dividend Reference Design – LTE Portal
LTE Portal September 14, 2010 Altair Semiconductor has announced the commercial release of the Digital Dividend reference design, featuring Altair's proven FourGee LTE chipset and interoperability-tested software stack. According to the company's press release, this...
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Altair Semiconductor announces Digital Dividend reference design – EE Times Europe
EE Times Europe September 14, 2010 By Jean-Pierre Joosting Altair Semiconductor has announced the commercial availability of its Digital Dividend (Band 20) reference design, one of the world's first such designs which also claims to...
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LTE chip makers take aim at Qualcomm – Fierce Broadband Wireless
Fierce Broadband Wireless August 22, 2010 By Lynnette Luna The race is on for mobile chip makers to gain a lead in the LTE market. Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) has transferred its leadership in 3G chips to LTE,...
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Bits and Bytes: Mobile shopping habits revealed; TCS, Mitek patents granted; and more – RCR Wireless U.S.
RCR Wireless U.S. August 20, 2010 By Kristen Beckman A new study found consumers are using mobile devices to expand their in-store shopping experience. The study was conducted by Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. company,...
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India a Sure Bet for WiMAX? Not So Fast – Wireless Week
Wireless Week August 9, 2010 By Maisie Ramsay When Reliance Industries paid $1 billion for control of Indian broadband company Infotel hours after it became the only company to win a slice of 4G spectrum...
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Chip firm Altair targets India’s TD-LTE market – India BandWidth
India BandWidth July 31, 2010 Initially for dongles and data cards rather than handsets Even as the debate about TD-LTE's time lag compared to WiMax rages, an Israeli firm Altair Semiconductor has announced commercial availability...
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Altair announces commercial TD-LTE reference design – Fierce Broadband Wireless
Fierce Broadband Wireless July 29, 2010 By Lynnette Luna Altair Semiconductor announced commercial availability of a new TD-LTE reference design for use in dongles, data cards, consumer premise equipment and mobile handheld devices. The reference design...
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Altair Semi co-founder: WiMax ‘just isn’t happening’ – ZD Net
ZD Net July 28, 2010 By Larry Dignan Altair Semiconductor, an Israeli startup focused on 4G chipsets, has played the WiMax game but six months ago decided to halt development and cast its lot with...
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Altair releases TD-LTE reference design – Rethink Wireless
Fierce Wireless July 28, 2010 By Caroline Gabriel Altair Semiconductor, a specialist in low power WiMAX chips, has recently extended its range to cover LTE. Like several other WiMAX silicon providers, it aims to leverage...
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IPWireless and Huawei to jointly work on IMB Technology – Telecom Tiger
Telecom Tiger July 21, 2010 Integrated Mobile Broadcast (IMB) technology developer, IPWireless and Huawei Technologies signed a co-operation agreement towards jointly developing IMB technology including interoperability testing (IOT) and service provider trials. The co-operation will...
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Hodge-podge networks will be norm in LTE world
FierceBroadbandWireless July 15, 2010 By Lynnette Luna The whole notion of small-cell architecture is gaining some significant momentum as operators map out their LTE plans. Once thought to be somewhat of an afterthought, whereby...
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IPWireless looks to strengthen LTE plan for public safety – Urgent Communications
Urgent Communications July 14, 2010 By Lynnette Luna IPWireless has teamed with LTE chipset maker Altair Semiconductor to develop a series of multiband modem products that will support the key frequencies in which LTE will...
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IP Wireless and Altair team-up on multi-mode LTE modems – Rethink Wireless
July 14, 2010 By Peter White TDD specialist firm IP Wireless has teamed up with Israeli broadband chip specialist Altair Semiconductor to build an LTE modem which works with both TDD and FDD systems. The...
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IPWireless and Altair Semiconductor partner to develop first multi-band, multi-mode LTE modem – Microwave Engineering Europe
Microwave Engineering Europe July 12, 2010 IPWireless and Altair Semiconductor have announced a partnership to develop a suite of multi-band LTE modem products that will support key frequency bands ideally suited to global LTE deployments....
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LTE driving software-defined developments – Mobile Europe
Mobile Europe July 9, 2010 Developers and designers are responding to industry needs for innovative, multi-mode LTE devices. The requirement for multimode LTE devices is not just that they can handoff between LTE, HSPA and...
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Altair and IPWireless to Release LTE Modem in Late 2010 – LTE Portal
LTE Portal July 8, 2010 Altair Semiconductor announced a partnership with IPWireless aimed at developing a suite of multi-band LTE modem products that will support key LTE frequency bands. Samples of the device will be...
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IPWireless, Altair Team on LTE – Light Reading Mobile
Light Reading Mobile July 8, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO -- IPWireless, a leading provider of 3GPP technology for new applications and markets, and Altair Semiconductor, the world's leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high...
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IPWireless and Altair Show Multi-Band, Multi-Mode LTE Modem – Converge! Network Digest
Converge! Network Digest July 8, 2010 IPWireless and Altair Semiconductor announced an LTE USB modem that will support multiple frequency bands including the 800MHz digital dividend band, 1800 MHz and 2.5 GHz. Subsequent devices will...
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Altair and IPWireless Join to Create Wireless Industry’s First LTE Modem – Mobility Techzone
Mobility Techzone July 8, 2010 By Juliana Kenny Announcing a partnership to develop a line of multi-band LTE modem products that will support key frequency bands, IPWireless and Altair Semiconductor will create the wireless industry's...
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ST-Ericsson and Sagem aim for early LTE devices – Rethink Wireless
Rethink Wireless July 8, 2010 By Caroline Gabriel The race to get silicon into LTE devices is heating up, with several carriers stepping up the pressure to have smartphones on the market a year or...
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Altair Semiconductor – leading the development of LTE chipsets – Optical Keyhole
Optical Keyhole July 8, 2010 Interview with Eran Eshed, co-founder and VP Marketing and Business Development Introduction Altair Semiconductor of Hod Hasharon, Israel, was founded in May 2005 by former Texas Instruments executives to develop...
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Interview with Eran Eshed of Altair on LTE developments & trends – LTE World
LTE World July 8, 2010 By Pankaj LteWorld had the opportunity to interview Eran Eshed , Co-Founder and VP of Marketing and Business Development at Altair, a leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and...
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IP Wireless taps Altair LTE chips for USB modems – EE Times
Light Reading July 8, 2010 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Startup Altair Semiconductor has booked the first public design win for its Long Term Evolution cellular chips to module maker IPWireless who is providing external USB...
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IPWireless, Altair link up to create global LTE modem – Connected Planet
Connected Planet July 8, 2010 By Kevin Fitchard Two specialist vendors in the 3G and 4G equipment space are teaming up to attack the long-term evolution market. Time division-CDMA equipment–maker IPWireless and 4G silicon vendor...
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Challengers Shake Up LTE Chips – Light Reading Mobile
Light Reading Mobile July 5, 2010 By Michelle Donegan No shortage of silicon will thwart mobile operators' Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployment plans, but established chipset vendors face challenges from new contenders in this dynamic...
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Analyst Angle: A market perspective on LTE’s rollout – RCR Wireless U.S.
RCR Wireless U.S. June 30, 2010 By Satish Menon Long Term Evolution or LTE, a next-generation 3G technology that uses ODFMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) access technology in the air interface, is making waves...
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