Airwave Solutions Australia has been appointed by FireWatch Australia in the federal government-funded trial of bushfire-detection technology.

The widespread growth of WiMAX in India has prompted Berkeley Varitronics to open a sales office in Pune, India.

The NGMN Alliance in Europe has endorsed the proposal to seek establishment of an ETSI industry specification group - open radio equipment interface - to further develop and maintain the specifications for open interfaces between remote equipment control and radio equipment.

Daniels Electronics has received its largest single order in the company’s 60-year history - $7.1m.

The growing need of the spectrum also encompasses challenges in planning the frequency bands and their monitoring to ensure legitimate usage with no interference to other users.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has held a one-day spectrum tune-up with a focus on the 2.5 GHz band.

Radio is essentially a friendly and useful tool but occasions can arise where its influence can be alarming.

Aeroflex has delivered a TM500 time division duplex-long term evolution mobile test system to the China Academy of Telecommunications Research.

La Trobe University has signed a contract with Sydney-based semiconductor firm Sapphicon to help build one of the world's smallest and most advanced radio receiver microchips.

Tait Radio Communications is among the first land mobile radio manufacturers able to issue test reports and supplier’s declaration of compliance statements as part of the inaugural P25 Compliance Assessment Program (CAP) tests.

Imec and Holst Centre have reported a 2.4 GHz/915 MHz wake-up receiver which consumes 51 µW. This may open the door to battery-less or energy-harvesting based radios for a wide range of applications, including long-range RFID and wireless sensor nodes for logistics, smart buildings, healthcare etc.

Imec and Holst Centre have developed an ultralow-power 8-bit analog to digital convertor consuming 30 fJ of energy per conversion step. It is especially suitable for upcoming low-energy radios in the ISM bands such as low-energy Bluetooth or IEEE 802.15.6 for body-area networks.

Agilent is holding a series of spectrum analyser workshops in major cities across Australia.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority is well advanced in its review of the regulation of mobile phone jammers in Australia. As part of that review, the ACMA is also seeking views on a proposal to trial mobile phone jammers at the Lithgow Correctional Centre in NSW.

TR Bearcom has been named the 2009 Motorola Australasian Dealer of the Year.