UMA Advances Mass-Market Femtocell Deployments | Wireless IQ

Ubiquisys Ltd and Kineto Wireless, Inc. today announced the successful completion of interoperability testing between the UbiquiSys ZoneGate 3G femtocell and Kineto’s UMA network controller.

picoChip Adds CDMA2000, EvDO Support for Femtocells, Picocells | Wireless IQ

picoChip today announced that Global Wireless Technologies (GWT) has developed a hardware reference design and software for CDMA2000 and EvDO femtocells and picocells running on the picoArray processor. This gives picoChip’s customers solutions for all the major standards, WCDMA (HSDPA upgradeable to HSUPA), CDMA2000 and EvDO Rev A, as well as TD-SCDMA and WiMAX, all on a single software-defined hardware platform.

Sprint WiMAX Femto Cells

Sprint has already made it clear that it anticipates that in-building coverage will be an important aspect of its WiMax rollout. "Femtocells are on our radar," says a spokesman for the operator.

Enforta moves to 3.5GHz for WiMAX

The Russian WiMAX operator Enforta has announced plans to launch its first 3.5GHz network early next month. The Dutch-owned company, which trades as Prestige Internet, currently uses the 5.2GHz band for its commercial WiMAX networks in 18 cities. Its new system in the city of Yaroslavl will be the first to use 3.5GHz spectrum, which is one of the standardised bands for WiMAX internationally. Enforta currently claims around 7,500 business customers, ComNews reports.

Intel dumps 3G for WiMax on Centrino,

"You're not going to get a 3G solution from Intel," Eden told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet Australia. "There are 3G solutions from third parties, but if you look at 3G adoption, it's still a one-digit attach rate. We are going to focus on WiMax, which we believe will be a more pervasive solution, and we are trying to work with the ecosystem to accelerate it worldwide."

Phone problems see Motorola loss

It made a $181m (£90.2m) loss between January and March, compared to a $686m profit in the same period last year. Sales fell from $9.6bn to $9.4bn.

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