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Fiercewireless | June 11, 2020

5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is the top-ranked 5G use case among consumers globally. FWA also is the top use case for small and medium-sized business, 73% of whom show a strong interest in FWA if cost and performance can match their existing wired broadba...

lightreading | March 12, 2020

The FCC recently signed off on a plan to allocate up to $20.4 billion for rural broadband. However, New York is the only continental US state not eligible for the bulk of this funding. Not surprisingly, this is an issue raising concerns among New Yorkers and others. At issue is the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, created by the FCC in late January to bring "digital opportunity to Americans living on the wrong side of the digital divide." It earmarks up to $20.4 billion to pay telecom c...

The Verge | January 29, 2020

Nearly four years after the California Institute of Technology sued Apple and Broadcom for allegedly infringing four of the university’s patents on Wi-Fi data transmission, a federal jury has agreed that the two companies infringed — and has awarded $1.1 billion in damages to Caltech for the infringement, Law360 reports. Reporting from the courtroom today, Law360 writes that the jury ordered Apple to pay $837 million, with Broadcom owing $270 million. That seems to be based on Caltec...

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TM500 Family,VIAVI | June 17, 2021

VIAVI Solutions Inc. introduced TMLite, a simplified version of its flagship TM500 Network Tester, which is used by almost every wireless base station manufacturer worldwide. This new solution allows vendors to enhance engineering performance and rapidly identify software errors by implementing focused functional test tools in the development cycle by delivering features, software environment, and user experience consistent with TM500 on a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) server. It also allows s...