• Nokia Siemens Networks announced that it has replaced 18,000 base stations made by other equipment providers, as telecom carriers try to lower their operational costs. The telecom equipment maker said that since the venture began in April 2007, 22 carriers in 15 countries have selected Nokia Siemens Networks products to replace other vendors’ installed base stations, including products from its largest rivals.
• Taiwan’s Tatung InfoComm, a wholly owned subsidiary of a Taiwanese conglomerate, Tatung, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy a commercial WiMAX 802.16e-2005 (Rev-e) network in Penghu County, Taiwan. Tatung holds one of the commercial WiMAX licenses for Taiwan’s southern regions. Financial details of the agreement were not provided.
• Broadcom announced its next generation Bluetooth Version 2.1 + EDR single-chip solution which it says provides significant performance upgrades and enhanced features, including lower power consumption, smaller chip size and improved radio performance. Developed in a 65 nanometer CMOS process, the new system-on-chip (SoC) solution targets mobile handset applications and includes the Broadcom SmartAudio sound and voice enhancement technology that was previously available only in wireless headset products. The single-chip BCM2070 Bluetooth baseband processor is available for early sampling to customers.
