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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, indicates that the mobile infrastructure market experienced its highest year-over-year growth since 2004, as revenues increased 25% during the second quarter of 2011 versus the year-ago quarter. In addition to currency exchange rates, this increase was driven in large part by sales of WCDMA/HSPA...

LONDON, Aug. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The GSMA today revealed details of the 2012 GSMA Mobile World Congress, which will be held 27th February - 1st March 2012 at the Fira de Barcelona Montjuic in Barcelona. The GSMA announced that CEOs from companies including Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, HTC, NTT DOCOMO, Telecom Italia and Telenor will deliver keynote presentations at the Mobile World Congress, which is expected to attract more than 60,000...

ISTANBUL, August 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Turkcell (NYSE: TKC, ISE: TCELL), the leading communications and technology company, is delighted to announce that its 3G exchanges (Radio Network Controllers) have been ranked first in terms of data download speed in the "International 3G Network Comparison Report" prepared by Ericsson. Ericsson conducted a benchmark report that depends on statistical results from 53 different countries among 639 3G exchanges where in terms of data...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA), the leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, today announced that the Israeli Smart Grid (ISG) Consortium which it helped spearhead has received the backing of the Israeli Chief Scientist under its MAGNET R&D Program. The group consists of seven industrial partners and five academic institutions. It will use the funding for a three to five year...

ATLANTA, July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Ericsson today announced that the super-slim, stunningly designed Xperia(TM) arc will be available starting August at Sony Retail stores and store.sony.com for $599.99. It will also be available on Amazon.com, Newegg.com, and Buy.com. Please check with individual retailers for pricing and availability. The Xperia(TM) arc runs on the latest Android 2.3 platform and will feature the best of Sony technology, making this device one of the most...

HIGH WYCOMBE, UK, July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Spanish mobile operator Yoigo is expanding and increasing the capacity of its 3G network. The operator aims to triple its customers and gain 10% of the Spanish market by 2015. Yoigo selected the Tellabs® 8600 Managed Edge System to support its growth and manage the anticipated increase in data traffic. Managing the evolution to all-IP The nationwide expansion of Yoigo's mobile backhaul network - managed by Ericsson Spain - will consist of...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and WALTHAM, Mass., July 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- To mark the official opening of the Verizon Innovation Center in Waltham, Mass., Verizon convened a panel discussion highlighting the value of collaboration and the power of the 4G LTE network in developing and bringing new products to market. "The Verizon Innovation Center is all about collaboration and bringing companies and ideas together to help deliver the next-generation of products and solutions for the 4G LTE...

Next-generation network significantly faster than any other Canadian wireless network OTTAWA, July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Rogers Communications Inc. announced today the commercial launch of Canada's first Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, bringing the latest global wireless technology to the Ottawa region. Rogers also announced that network rollout to Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal will occur this fall, and that LTE-enabled smartphones from Samsung and HTC will be available...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CEVA, Inc. [(NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA)], the leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, today announced the availability of fully optimized HSPA+ software libraries for the CEVA-XC DSP. The addition of these new libraries to the CEVA-XC Software-Defined Radio (SDR) reference architecture enables the implementation of a software-based multimode HSPA/HSPA+/LTE/LTE-A solution. Support for HSPA...

Six-thousand patents and patent applications have been put up for sale by Nortel, the former telecom giant which filed for bankruptcy two years ago. The potential treasure trove has been purchased by a group including Apple and Research In Motion paying $4.5 billion to snatch Nortel Networks' patents from under the noses of Google and Intel, Reuters is reporting.The price was about three times what had been expected, highlighting the value of intellectual property in the fast-changing...