Maravedis Blogs

Nokia boosts US presence with SAC purchase

Finnish firm's second infrastructure acquisition with Microsoft cash focuses on indoor small cell and DAS deployments By Caroline Gabriel Nokia, in its new handset-free life, is building up its largest...

Qualcomm promises WiGig handsets with 4K video

Confirms purchase of 60GHz specialist Wilocity and announces integrated Snapdragon platform By Caroline Gabriel As expected, Qualcomm has acquired 60GHz WiGig pioneer Wilocity and promises to take the emerging WiFi-like...

'5G': new mobile technologies just a sideshow

Ericsson's demo is impressive, but Cambridge conference highlights the far bigger challenges for mobile evolution By Caroline Gabriel Ericsson has become the latest vendor to demonstrate '5G' technologies, and claim...

Small cells recast for reaching remote communities

RealWireless argues that 'meadowcells' can halve the cost per person of deploying rural mobile broadband By Caroline Gabriel This year's Cambridge Wireless Future of Wireless International Conference was heavily focused...

Three architectures combine for the new LTE

To meet mobile data demands in the second half of the decade, operators look to build two layers, with different base station types By Caroline Gabriel There is little room...

Chinese trio get FDD trial licences, no 700MHz

All three operators now have paired and unpaired spectrum, but will wait until 2015 for commercial FDD, and 2020 for sub-1GHz By Caroline Gabriel China Mobile suffered from being the...