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So Google’s buying Motorola Mobility. For $12.5 billion. In cash. Is that really a surprise? It shouldn’t be. Google has been looking to expand its presence in the mobile space for a while and what better way to do it than with an acquisition that end users can wrap their hands around? The Google-Motorola Mobility deal may have been a preemptive strike, made in anticipation of Microsoft purchasing Nokia’s handset division. Yes, Nokia denied the $19 billion acquisition rumor as “100 percent baseless,” but that was way back in June. Today, who knows? One thing’s for sure: If Microsoft is still interested in Nokia, the price just went up thanks to the 9+ percent jump [...]

Today’s wireless networks are exploding with data use. Unfortunately, they are also constrained by capacity limitations. Soaring demand for mobile devices and bandwidth-intensive, mobile applications is simply overwhelming network infrastructure for most organizations. Previously, anybody interested in increasing their indoor wireless capacity would just add new macrocells and microcells. But that also meant increasing their network complexity. Now, there’s a new way to deal with the data explosion – distributed antenna system (DAS). The Wireless Infrastructure Association (PCIA) defines DAS as “a network of spatially separated antenna nodes connected to a common source via a transport medium that provides wireless service within a geographic area or structure.” In simpler terms, DAS opens the door to [...]

When it comes to proving significant gaps in wireless coverage today, walking into a zoning hearing with a coverage map and a smile just won’t cut it. Why? Because 99 times out of 100, your map will show coverage for the area you’re claiming has inadequate coverage! Today, demonstrating proof takes a little more work. Before wireless coverage was as built up as it is today, proving a significant gap often involved displaying a coverage map during public testimony and pointing out how many people do not have wireless service in given area, e.g., how many vehicles per day travel an uncovered roadway or how many people live or work in an uncovered area. All [...]

Ahhh, do you smell that?! The perfumed scent of prognostication! It’s still wafting in the air from the first half of the year when industry analysts and pundits alike painstakingly predicted our wireless future. Now that we are at the half-way point of 2011, Nexius decided to take a closer look at some of the more compelling predictions from the beginning of the year, evaluating them in light of our experience delivering end-to-end wireless services and software solutions to telecom, technology, and other industries worldwide. So far, it appears that a lot of the analysts got it right and some were a bit off-base, but here’s our take: On network speeds – Expect significant 4G [...]