Zenitel is supplying a Motorola TETRA system to the Ormen Lange gas refinery in Aukra, on the west coast of Norway.

Aeroflex has agreed with Icom to provide automated test and alignment capabilities for Icom radios on the Aeroflex 3920 digital radio test set.

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.

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).

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

IMEC has presented a 60 GHz front-end receive chain and phase-locked loop.

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.

Daniels Electronics has won a $2m contract with the Canadian government for coastal radio stations to be used by the Canadian coast guard at its marine communications and traffic services centres and associated remote sites in the Pacific region.

The relentless march of next-generation wireless data services is beginning to strain backhaul infrastructure, as high data throughputs — and subscriber demand — consume network capacity.

AWR and Mentor Graphics have announced AWR Connected for Mentor Graphics.