Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
CDMA pioneer, Qualcomm, has announced plans to acquire broadband
wireless developer, Flarion Technologies, a pioneer of Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplex Access (OFDMA) technology and the inventor
of FLASH-OFDM technology for mobile broadband IP services. Qualcomm
will pay approximately $US600 million. Qualcomm CEO, Dr Paul Jacobs,
said: "We believe CDMA will provide the most advanced, spectrally
efficient wide area wireless networks for the foreseeable future, but
with Flarion we can now more effectively support operators who prefer
an OFDMA or hybrid OFDM/CDMA track for differentiating their
services."
OFDM has been promoted as the basis for wireless networks beyond third
generation. Qualcomm claims a leading patent position in CDMA and
W-CDMA technology, and its acquisition of Flarion could give it a
similar position for any 4G technology based on OFDM.
Flarion' proprietary technology has been trialled extensively by
operators around the world, but it has to date announced just two
commercial rollouts: in Zagreb in June and in Finland in July.
David Bass
| ComOps, a leading Australian provider of business software products and services, has won a competitive tender to deploy its Salvus safety, r…
How to Make Business Discovery Work for Your Business
Business Discovery takes its cues from consumer apps. Like Google, it encourages us- ers to hunt for and explore data without worrying about or even noticing the underly- ing technology. Their entire experience is working within an intuitive interface to get real-time, self-service results with only minimal training. ...more
Try an easy-to-use set of web-enabled
tools for business-class productivity services. Office 365 provides
anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars
on almost any device.
Latest Headlines from IT INDUSTRY
