Parallel Wireless today announced that EE, a UK mobile operator, has chosen the Parallel Wireless rural micro network solution for their rural wireless 4G rollout. The rural micro network solution from Parallel Wireless does not rely on any wired broadband, and can connect communities of around 100 homes with just three or four base stations. The first community to be connected through trials of the new micro network technology is the small village of Sebergham, in Cumbria. Sebergham has 129 dwellings and 347 residents, and sits in a deep valley.

Freescale Semiconductor has acquired Zenverge, a fabless semiconductor company and a developer of HD content processing ICs. Zenverge’s transcoding technology enables the conversion of one media stream into multiple streams, each individually formatted and optimized for the specific internet connected device or platform where it will be displayed. Among the supported formats planned is the Ultra HD (HEVC) standard, which features 4K resolution while delivering up to 50 percent bandwidth savings due to data compression. As part of the agreement, key members of Zenverge have joined Freescale. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

ZTE Corporation has signed a 10-year network-wide managed services contract with Euskaltel, the largest operator in the Basque Country in Spain. ZTE will also work with Euskaltel to guarantee its network quality, upgrade its technologies, and extend its services.

Resolve Systems (formerly gen-E), provider of an integrated approach to accelerating incident resolution in network and IT operations, today announced that C Spire has chosen the RESOLVE Software System to accelerate the time-to-resolution of incidents and to reduce the number of incidents that require support from the Network Operations Center (NOC).