Increasing penetration of Samsung Electronics into the WiMAX base station market could affect the efforts of Taiwan-based network equipment makers in promoting sales of their WiMAX CPE (customer premise equipment) products, according to Rosemary Ho, chairperson of Taiwan WiMAX licensee Global Mobile. US-based Clearwire and Japan-base UQ Communications are building up their WiMAX networks using

Azerbaijani mobile operator, Azercell has commissioned its 1,500th base station at 1,500 meters above sea level - in the mountainous region of Gusar, northern region of Azerbaijan.

Adaptix, a Texan WiMAX base station and mobile terminal vendor has launched legal action against Sprint Nextel and Clearwire for allegedly infringing six of its patents.

As data rates and mobile Internet use is increasing one of the big challenges of mobile operators is how to keep pace with adding capacity in the backhaul network, i.e. the network that connects the base station to the rest of the network. Currently, many operators still use slow and expensive 2 MBit/s E-1 and T-1 links that don't scale well at all with the rising wireless data rates that a single...

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No power to the people's network An FCC plan that would see every US mobile-phone base station equipped with eight hours of backup power has been rejected by the White House, on the grounds that the regulator failed to consult properly on the proposal.…

Nokia Siemens Networks successfully demonstrated Relaying technology proposed for LTE-Advanced at its research facilities in Germany. The technology improves cell coverage for users distant from the base station.

Nokia Siemens Networks says it demonstrated Relaying technology proposed for the LTE-Advanced standard. The infrastructure vendor says that the Relaying technology allows cell phone users to get a signal on the edge of a coverage area--where they are furthest from the mobile broadband base station. The demonstration, which took place in the company's research facility in German...

Singaporean operator claims world's first commercial 3G home base station service, hooking up Huawei femtos to its broadband network

El Reg compo to identify those in the know What with the SiteFinder database still not getting updated it's time to see if you notice now when the lamp post next to you is suspiciously pregnant, or if cellular base stations have become so much a part of our landscape that they no-longer merit our attention.…