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RESTON, Va., June 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — LightSquared™, the nation’s first wholesale-only integrated wireless broadband and satellite network, formally presented the company’s modified spectrum plan to the FCC and proposed a comprehensive solution to the GPS interference issue. This plan will serve as a foundation for the construction of a new wireless broadband network that will bring world-class Internet service to the United States, including rural areas and other underserved communities and inject new competition in an increasingly consolidating wireless market.

LightSquared’s proposal outlines a three-part solution for resolving GPS interference issues involving GPS devices, which was detailed in recommendations filed at the FCC today. GPS device test results, which were also filed at the FCC today, show unequivocally that the interference is caused by the GPS device manufacturer’s decision over the last eight years to design products that depend on using spectrum assigned to other FCC licensees.

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Industry’s first solution to offer bundled 4G and 3G wireless WAN connectivity, with secure and reliable access to Sprint Global MPLS; Explorer Pipeline experiences significant cost savings and improved productivity

Overland Park, Kan. – June 27, 2011 – Sprint (NYSE: S) now offers businesses Sprint 4G Enterprise WAN (wide area network), a fixed wireless access solution that provides speed, reliability and secure wireless connectivity to the Sprint Global MPLS network. Not only can wireless connectivity open a world of possibilities by allowing people to work virtually anywhere, now Sprint 4G can enable businesses to replace or improve on traditional “wired” options with a solution that is cost-effective, fast and flexible to deploy without compromising bandwidth and network reliability, available within all Sprint 4G markets.

“Sprint understands the critical challenges facing businesses today, which demand innovative solutions to address higher bandwidth needs, business continuity, and cost reduction in a more

SAN DIEGO – June 28, 2011 – Telcentris®, Inc., a cloud communications leader and creator of VoxOx®, today announced that Rob Lewis, VP of product management at Telcentris, will speak at eComm America 2011, a key communications industry event held in San Francisco June 27-29, 2011. At the event, Lewis will present on the future of communications, discussing how communications technology will evolve by 2025.

Who: Rob Lewis, VP of product management, Telcentris

What: Presentation – “Telepathy by Machine: Fact or Fiction in 2025?”

When: 4:35 - 4:50 p.m. PDT on Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Where: eComm 2011, San Francisco Airport Marriott, Salon E

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Industry to Honor Four Individuals at October 10 Event in San Diego

AUSTIN, TX–June 22, 2011–The Wireless History Foundation (WHF) announced today the names of four accomplished individuals who will be inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame during the Foundation’s Oct. 10, 2011 dinner in San Diego. The 2011 inductees are:

• Nick Kauser — Former Chief Technology Officer of four major wireless carriers including Rogers Cantel, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless Services, and Clearwire Corporation, which he also co-founded. Kauser built the first nationwide network across both Canada and the United States. He led U.S. standards processes, aggressively explored new technologies, and laid the basis for nationwide automatic roaming.
• Robert Marino — Former President and first employee of United TeleSpectrum (now Sprint), also former President of cellular companies including Compania de Radiocomunicaciones Moviles (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Houston Cellular Telephone Company (now more

First compact, tunable MIMO antenna design covers 12 global TD LTE/LTE FDD/GSM EDGE/TD SCDMA bands from 700 MHz to 2.7 GHz for global LTE roaming and handset economies of scale

Beijing, China and Viera, FL, USA, June 21, 2011—China Mobile Research Institute and SkyCross today announced a demonstration of a tunable, MIMO antenna design for multimode, multiband handsets in LTE deployments around the globe. The world’s first compact, tunable MIMO antenna covers 12 frequency bands ranging from 700 MHz to 2.7 GHz for TD LTE/LTE FDD/TD SCDMA/GSM EDGE/WCDMA deployments worldwide.

China Mobile believes that the convergence of TDD and FDD and the support of multiband are important for the mobile industry to realize the global scale and global roaming capabilities of the LTE standard. Cooperating with industry partners, China Mobile has made great strides in the convergence of TD-LTE and LTE FDD. The vision of “one more

SINGAPORE, June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Tektronix Communications, a leading worldwide provider of communications test and Network Intelligence solutions, today announced its presence at CommunicAsia in Singapore, June 21-24 at BN4-01. This year, industry leading solutions from Tektronix Communications which include OptiMon, IrisView, Geoprobe and Arantech’s Customer Experience Management (CEM) systems will be featured as enabling technologies to speed the service provider transition from 2.5/3G to 4G/LTE.

As operators move to all IP environments, networks are becoming more complex, and time-to-market more critical for service providers to launch new services. Network operators require a trusted partner who can offer the breadth and depth of solutions across fixed, mobile, legacy and converged technologies to simplify their business and operational support systems, and to have a more complete view of how subscribers are using IP data services.

Network Element Design and Test – Next generation network elements require fast and more

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bytemobile, Inc., the industry leader in video optimization and Smart Capacity™ solutions for mobile network operators, today announced new product enhancements to the company’s traffic reporting and analytics solution. The expanded solution provides improved insights into mobile data congestion, application traffic patterns and subscriber quality of experience (QoE) on operators’ networks.

Bytemobile’s Smart Capacity Mobile Analytics presents actionable network intelligence that enables operators to better understand the impact of video content and mobile application usage on their networks and measure the user experience. With this intelligence, operators can offer new and differentiated services, and apply traffic management tools to improve network efficiencies.

“Continued aggressive growth in mobile data – fueled by video and application usage over faster networks and more powerful, user-friendly devices in the hands of billions of people – has created a formidable traffic management challenge for carriers,” said Ronny Haraldsvik, vice president more

SINGAPORE, June 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — BTI Systems and DragonWave (TSX: DWI) (NASDAQ: DRWI) have teamed together to create an integrated solution to deliver cost-effective, scalable capacity across metro fiber networks. Driven by the massive adoption of advanced 3G and 4G wireless services, BTI Systems and DragonWave will address the need for backhaul of mobile broadband data from the tower to the switching center by combining the strengths of their respective packet optical metro networking and high-capacity packet convergence solutions to advance mobile backhaul transport.

“The combined BTI Systems and DragonWave solution addresses the fundamental challenge of today’s backhaul networks - transport that is optimized for the flood of packet traffic generated by broadband content, while providing support for existing 2G and 3G services. The solution provides integrated OAM functionality which is key to reducing OpEx and improving the customer experience,” said Rick Talbot, Senior Analyst, Transport and more

m8 Capital, Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners
Fund Round

June 16, 2011 – Boston, MA – Aylus Networks™, the leading provider of infrastructure software for enabling video communication services over mobile networks, announced today the closing of an equity financing round of $16 million. London UK-based m8 Capital led the financing, with existing backers, Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, who fully participated their pro rata share. Joseph Kim, General Partner of m8 Capital, will be joining the Aylus Board of Directors.

“The dawn of video becoming the new voice is upon us,” said Mark Edwards, CEO Aylus Networks. “The emergence of powerful video-ready smartphones and tablets, high-speed mobile networks, and consumers becoming accustomed to video calling on the desktop establishes the ideal conditions for the mass adoption of mobile video calling. For video calling to be a mass-market phenomenon it needs more

Mansfield, MA - June 13, 2011 - Telco Systems, a multi-service Carrier Ethernet access and demarcation solution provider and Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYMM), a worldwide leader in precision time and frequency technology, have announced that Telco Systems has partnered with Symmetricom to embed IEEE1588v2 technology into the Company’s mobile backhaul solution.
The combined solution ensures the delivery of precise timing and synchronization over packet-based networks.

“Rigorous tests have shown that the combined Telco Systems and Symmetricom solution using 1588v2 technology provides a resilient and scalable packet-based mobile backhaul solution which meets legacy TDM performance,” stated Nir Halachmi , MBH Product Line Manager for Telco Systems. “By partnering with Symmetricom, we provide operators with a highly reliable and accurate clock synchronization mechanism, and enable them to expedite deployments and deliver a proven and cost effective time synchronization solution that fits their network needs.”

“Timing and synchronization requirements are more