Industry News
Spectrum licensing review
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has released a discussion paper as part of a review of the technical frameworks that apply to spectrum licences.
[ + ]ACMA and WIA sign amateur deal
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has signed a contract with the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) to provide a range of services to the amateur radio community.
[ + ]NZ Navy replaces frigate simulator
Bluewater Systems, a Christchurch-based ARM solutions developer, has delivered a communications retrofit to the New Zealand navy.
[ + ]TETRA system for gas refinery
Zenitel is supplying a Motorola TETRA system to the Ormen Lange gas refinery in Aukra, on the west coast of Norway.
[ + ]Radio test joint deal
Aeroflex has agreed with Icom to provide automated test and alignment capabilities for Icom radios on the Aeroflex 3920 digital radio test set.
[ + ]Test mobiles for China
Aeroflex has secured a series of sales for the TD-LTE version of its TM500 test mobiles from various suppliers of mobile infrastructure equipment in China.
[ + ]Europe approves 900 MHz UMTS
The decision by the European Parliament to accept the amendment of the GSM Directive to allow UMTS (WCDMA-HSPA) technology to be used in the 900 MHz band has been welcomed by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).
[ + ]GSM suite initiative gains momentum
The GSMA has reported progress in the Rich Communication Suite intiative, a service providing interoperable, enriched communications capabilities such as in-call multimedia sharing, converstional messaging and presence-enhanced contact management, all accessible through a user's mobile phone contact list.
[ + ]Conference focuses on public safety
The overall theme of this year's APCO Australasian 2009 conference and exhibition, held at Australia's Technology Park in Sydney, earlier this month, was 'Leaders in Public Safety — When Every Second Counts'.
[ + ]Spectrum management under discussion
The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s third annual conference on the management of Australia’s radiofrequency spectrum, Radcomms09, will offer an opportunity to hear the latest developments, future trends and challenges in radiofrequency spectrum management.
[ + ]Diplexers help system longevity
RFS (Radio Frequency Systems) has developed a groundbreaking wideband diplexer technology that will assist carriers as they migrate their mobile network infrastructures to LTE — long term evolution.
[ + ]Aluminium wins gold award
Heliax 2.0 FXL, the aluminium RF cable manufactured by Andrew, has won the Golden Award for Green Communication Energy-Efficiency Technology in an industry contest held in China.
[ + ]RFID alternative is new standard
Visible Assets says that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved RuBee, a long-wavelength, packet-based, magnetic transceiver protocol, as a new international standard designated IEEE 1902.1.
[ + ]Silicon amplifier for millimetric frequencies
New imaging and high-capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality, thanks to a millimetre wave amplifier invented at the University of California.
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