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• 10 top reasons for integrating Wi-Fi radios in small cellular cells

  By Ajay Kumar Gupta, team lead at Wesley Clover Communications Solutions | 16 May, 2012 00:47

  With the growing demand for mobile data, cellular service operators are increasingly turning to small cells -- picocells, microcells, metrocells and femtocells -- to deal with the capacity crunch in dense urban areas and to add coverage in areas with low or zero cellular signal levels, such as indoors and in remote rural locations.

• Small cells could raise big problems

  By Stephen Lawson | 11 May, 2012 00:52

  Amid growing interest in small cells, widely seen as an inevitable tool for carriers to deal with booming mobile data demand, there are now signs that it may be hard to derive the expected benefits from them in some cases.

• Ericsson lets operators speed up mobile, fixed networks using caching

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 00:42

  Using caching technology from Akamai Technologies, Ericsson's Smart Cloud Accelerator, announced Wednesday, is designed to allow operators to improve performance in both fixed and mobile networks.

• RIM names new COO, CMO

  By Matt Hamblen | 09 May, 2012 03:46

  Research in Motion (RIM) on Tuesday appointed a new chief operating officer (COO) and chief marketing officer (CMO) as RIM prepares to launch BlackBerry 10 smartphones later this year in hopes of reversing a decline in its global smartphone share.

• Cisco, Juniper among new software-defined networking research center's founders

  By Bob Brown | 11 April, 2012 03:24

  Cisco, Juniper, HP and nine other technology companies have joined forces with two leading universities to form a research center focused on software-defined networking (SDN).

• Microsoft, Apple free to flex Nortel patent muscles

  By Tim Greene | 16 March, 2012 02:32

  Apple, Microsoft and a handful of other tech companies are now free to license $US4.5 billion in patents they bought at auction last year from bankrupt Nortel, which could open up a can of worms for companies using technology covered by the patents.

• Optus signs Huawei for Newcastle LTE rollout

  By Spandas Lui | 14 March, 2012 11:39

  Chinese communications vendor, Huawei, has been confirmed as the equipment supplier for the rollout of the Optus 4G LTE network in Newcastle, New South Wales, and surrounding areas.

• Ericsson to acquire Technicolor's broadcast services division

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 13 March, 2012 23:23

  Ericsson has made an offer to acquire the Broadcast Services Division of Technicolor, as it looks to make further inroads into the broadcast market, the company said on Tuesday.

• Wi-Fi, small cells could disrupt mobile

  By Stephen Lawson | 02 March, 2012 06:50

  The rise of mixed mobile networks of Wi-Fi, small cells and traditional base stations, a major theme of this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, may change the competitive landscape of both service providers and equipment vendors.

• Ericsson joins OpenStack, aiming at operators with cloud ambitions

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 29 February, 2012 06:22

  Ericsson has joined OpenStack as part of its plan to serve operators that want to become cloud computing providers, the company said on Tuesday.

• Ericsson extends SON to automate mixed mobile networks

  By Stephen Lawson | 29 February, 2012 01:58

  Ericsson took a step to simplify carrier mobile networks on Tuesday, during a Mobile World Congress show where infrastructure is getting more complex.

• Sony shows off two new Xperia phones at Mobile World Congress

  By Ginny Mies | 27 February, 2012 07:09

  In a packed ballroom next to Barcelona’s Olympic stadium, Sony kicked off Mobile World Congress with two new Android phones, the Xperia P and the Xperia U. At CES 2012, Sony Ericsson rebranded itself under the Sony brand. The new line of phones under the Sony brand is are called Xperia NXT. We saw the first Xperia NXT phone, the Xperia S, at CES.

• Ericsson increases uplink capacity for HSPA

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 23 February, 2012 02:02

  Ericsson can increase upload capacity by a factor of three in HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) networks, thanks to the use of more antennas and proprietary interference suppression technology, the company said on Wednesday.

• Ericsson acquires Wi-Fi specialist BelAir Networks

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 February, 2012 00:48

  Ericsson has entered into an agreement to buy privately held Canadian Wi-Fi company BelAir Networks, as operators get increasingly interested in using Wi-Fi to offload their networks.

• Airvana sues Ericsson over femtocell technology

  By Nancy Gohring | 09 February, 2012 06:51

  Femtocell developer Airvana is charging Ericsson with breaching their contract over femtocell technology, in a lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York.