Sprint renews Nortel contract for infrastructure upgrades 

Sprint recently announced a contract renewal with Nortel that calls for the vendor to provide equipment and professional support for the continued expansion of the carrier’s 3G wireless network...

Sprint, Nextel move ahead with merger 

By Dan O'Shea

Just a few days after talks between the two companies were made public, Sprint and Nextel Communications have announced a merger-of-equals agreement to form a combined entity with 35 million customers and valued at $70 billion...

Transcrypt receives nearly $10 million in orders  

EFJ, Inc. announced that its Transcrypt International subsidiary recently received an order worth $1.7 million...

Cisco adds dual band access points 

Cisco Systems has introduced the 1130AG and 1230AG to its Aironet line of access points...

Motorola to acquire MeshNetworks 

Motorola said yesterday that it would acquire MeshNetworks, the Maitland, Fla.-based manufacturer of 802.11 peer-to-peer wireless broadband networks...

Kenwood promotes Mark Jasin to senior V.P. and general manager 

Kenwood USA Corp. today announced it has promoted Mark Jasin to senior vice president and general manager for the company’s Communications Sector...

Motorola to acquire public-safety records-management firm 

Motorola said this week that it has agreed to acquire CRISNET, Inc., a privately-held developer of advanced records management and related systems for criminal justice and public safety customers...

First SDR using partial reconfiguration of FPGAs unveiled 

Xilinx and ISR Technologies this week demonstrated a software-defined radio (SDR) using partial reconfiguration of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) at a technical conference in Monterey, Calif. ...

Atheros agrees to offer PCTEL access point  

Atheros Communications and PCTEL announced a licensing agreement that calls for Atheros to offer PCTEL's Soft Access Point (SoftAP) software solution for use with products that include Atheros' high-performance WLAN chipsets...

Vanu wins Army contract for software radio 

Vanu said today it has been awarded a development contract from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command Research, Development and Engineering Center ...

Sinclair Technologies merges with Comprod Communications  

Sinclair Technologies and Comprod Communications announced they would merge. Terms were not disclosed, but the companies said the merger is scheduled to close before the end of the year...

SmarTrunk names Rocky Mountain sales reps 

SmarTrunk Systems has named Lakewood, Colo.-based Shaffer Communications Marketing to sell its trunking equipment to dealers, service providers and end-users in certain areas...

Symbol Technologies posts solid financial quarter 

Enterprise mobility solutions vendor Symbol Technologies reported revenues for third quarter 2004 of $442.7 million, a 17% increase over the $377.1 million reported in the year-ago quarter, and the highest quarterly revenues ever recorded by the company...

PCTEL purchases antenna assets from Andrew 

PCTEL has agreed to acquire selected assets associated with Andrew Corp.’s mobile antenna business for $10 million in cash...

Transcrypt unveils voice scramble for ICOM radios 

EFJ, Inc. announced that its Transcrypt International subsidiary has launched a plug-in voice scrambler designed for ICOM radios...