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KT, Intel to Collaborate on WiBro's Global Advancement

KT, South Korea's dominant fixed-line operator, said Friday that it has agreed with Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker, to collaborate on expanding its next-generation mobile technology overseas.

ng Connect Program’s LTE-enabled HumanKiosk Wins First Place E-Tech Award

The ng Connect Program today announced that its LTE-enabled HumanKiosk solution concept developed by MediaTile, a world-leading provider of cellular digital signage solutions and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU), has won a first place CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Award in the Enterprise & Vertical Market Solution - Mobile Marketing or Advertising category.

More than 80 prominent media and industry analysts judged the 300-plus entries submitted for the E-Tech Awards program this year. Products and services were judged on innovation, functionality, technological importance, implementation and the overall “wow” factor.

Femtocell Base Stations Poised for Spectacular Growth

The ecosystem surrounding femtocells, or cellular base stations that improve indoor wireless coverage, is headed toward critical mass among all major nodes of the wireless supply chain and will vault into explosive growth after reaching a decisive watershed this year, iSuppli believes.

Unit shipments of femtocells will more than triple this year, rising to 1.9 million, up from 571,000 in 2009, according to iSuppli projections. A period of phenomenal expansion then will follow, with shipments reaching 7.2 million units in 2011, up 289 percent from 2010. Shipments will rise by 232 percent to reach 23.9 million units in 2012 and by a whopping 657 percent to hit 39.6 million units in 2013.

HelloSoft, Comsys Mobile and dmedia Announce Joint Development of 4G Handset

HelloSoft, Comsys Mobile and dmedia announced the joint development of a low cost integrated WiMAX/GSM/WiFi phone at 2010 CTIA Wireless. The handset features the combination of HelloSoft’s award-winning VoIP and convergence client suite running on its low cost ultra low power HS100 IP Convergence Processor combined with Comsys Mobile’s award-winning ComMAX CM1125, the industry’s only multimode WiMAX/GSM-EDGE communication processor. The handset is slated for release later this year.

AT4 wireless announces support of the LTE December '09 baseline

AT4 wireless announces the completion of the integration and verification efforts towards the complete migration of E2010 Broadband Wireless Test Set to integrate all changes required to support LTE 3GPP December 09 baseline.

Verizon Wireless Deploys Camiant’s Policy Control Solution for LTE Network

Camiant announced that Verizon Wireless has selected Camiant’s Multimedia Policy Engine (MPE) as the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) for Verizon Wireless’ previously announced nationwide deployment of a 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. Camiant’s MPE will perform policy control in the LTE network for Internet Data-, IMS- and non-IMS-based services. In addition, Camiant’s MPE will also be the PCRF for all IMS based services over the existing 3G network.

Samsung Announces Commercial LTE Infrastructure and Handset

Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile)1, the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the U.S. 2, introduced today at International CTIA Wireless 2010 in Las Vegas one of the first commercially available LTE network infrastructures and LTE-enabled, multi-mode, CDMA, 4G handset, the Samsung SCH-r900.