Sweden’s trade minister, Ewa Bjorling has said that a probe by the European Commission into allegations of illegal state subsidies by the Chinese government for Huawei and ZTE could harm European manufacturers. She said that she is concerned that there could be retaliatory measures taken by the Chinese government if the EU imposes tariffs … Read more
Facebook is again rumoured to be working on its own smartphone following efforts to hire a number of former Apple staff who developed the company’s iPhone. There have been rumours that the website giant wants to boost its mobile offering and admitted in its stock market prospectus that its mobile services are not generating … Read more
Multi-path combination in the BSC during soft handoffMulti-path combination in the BTS during softer handoffs Soft handoff means that during the handoff of a mobile station at the coverage edge areas of two or multiple base stations, the mobile station receives the signals from multiple base stations (two in most cases) at the same … Read more
Message Transmission Mode MS measures the frame quality and informs the base station to the result i.e. whether it is in the threshold or periodical mode. Base station determines whether to change the forward transmitting power or not. In IS-95 system, the forward power control is slow but in CDMA2000 system it is fast. Forward … Read more
Five of the USA’s largest cable TV networks have joined forces to combine their Wi-Fi networks into a single network with over 50,000 hotspots across their markets. The Wi-Fi networks will remain owned by the separate companies, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable but will be jointly branded as “CableWiFi”. … Read more
Two points are important here: Maximum number of shift register (N) Mask The period of out put sequence is 2N-1 bits Only sequence offset is change when the mask is changed PN stands for Pseudorandom Noise sequence In CDMA system, user information is encrypted by means of scrambling. The scramble code used here is … Read more
Despite a series of low-cost media tablet launches in the second half of 2011, Apple’s iPad has managed to maintain its premier position in the Indian market with 51% market share in 2011. Samsung’s achievement at extending its success in the handset segment to the tablet segment, with its Galaxy Tab, allowed Samsung to occupy … Read more
Apple is reported to be planning to drop support for Google’s mapping service in its next Operating System upgrade, in favour of a mapping service from companies that the company has bought over the past few years. Citing sources at the company, 9to5Mac reported that the company has been combining services from subsidiary companies, … Read more
Deutsche Telekom is reported to have renewed discussions with the USA based regional network, MetroPCS regarding a possible merger with its own T-Mobile USA network. The two companies were last reported to be in talks back in late 2009. Citing two unnamed people familiar with the talks, Deutsche Telekom has been considering a stock-swap transaction and then … Read more
Research In Motion (RIM) today announced that the USA’s Department of Defence has granted approval for the use of BlackBerry 7 smartphones. Working with U.S. Army and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) sponsors and partners, BlackBerry 7 smartphones have undergone testing through Army labs leading to a subsequent listing on DISA’s Unified Communications Approved Product … Read more