4G Global Update - July 07, 2011

 

UQ Communications Demos WiMAX 2 Field Trial, Announces MoU with YTL

TeleGeography

UQ Communications has announced that it has achieved downlink transmission speeds of over 100Mbps in what it describes as the world's first WiMAX 2 field trial. The pilot, which is being held in Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, is in cooperation with Samsung Electronics and uses 20MHz of spectrum in the 2.6GHz band. UQ expects to deploy WiMAX 2 commercially from 2013. In a separate, but related, announcement UQ revealed that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Malaysian WiMAX operator YTL Communications to increase collaboration and create a stronger WiMAX ecosystem. More

 

LTE Backhaul Startup Rises From Nortel Ashes

Light Reading Mobile

Amidst the wreckage of Nortel Networks Ltd.'s bankruptcy, a technology green shoot was cultivated to create a new company specializing in wireless backhaul for LTE small cells.That startup is BLiNQ Networks. Founded in June 2010, the company was extracted from Nortel's bankruptcy process, which involved getting legal clearance from various courts in Canada, France, the U.K., and U.S. Because it was a small deal -- that is, compared to the billions generated from the sale of Nortel assets to Avaya, Ciena, Ericsson and Genband -- it was able to avoid getting tangled up in the bankruptcy asset auctions. More

 

Raytheon, IPWireless Win Broadband Stimulus LTE Deal in US

FierceBroadbandWireless

Raytheon declared that it was awarded the first competitive public-safety LTE contract in the nation as well as the first contract under the broadband stimulus program for recipients of the 700 MHz broadband waiver. The $8.7 million contract will provide Adams County, Colo., and the adjacent Denver community, with a 15-site LTE communications system. The county is using 700 MHz spectrum that the public-safety community already owns, and the Federal Communications Commission has given the go-ahead to use that spectrum for mobile broadband services. Raytheon has teamed with IPWireless, which is providing base stations and devices. The LTE system will be deployed over the next 21 months. More