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Telekom Austria Group, which serves 23 million customers in Central and Eastern Europe, has awarded a multi-standard radio access network contract to Ericsson, which has been a long term supplier.
Ericsson will upgrade the 2G and 3G mobile networks and also provide LTE for Telekom Austria Group’s subsidiaries A1 in Austria and Vipnet in Croatia. Rollout has already started. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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From the Graveyard
You just read about Ericsson. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
BelAir Networks built Carrier-grade Wi-Fi and small cells. What became of it?
BelAir Networks brought Carrier-grade Wi-Fi and small cells to Wireless. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Ericsson. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Ericsson today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about LTE. Here is what it replaced:
iDEN served 1994–2013. What ultimately replaced it?
iDEN motorola's hybrid of TDMA cellular plus digital push-to-talk (Direct Connect walkie-talkie) running on fragmented SMR radio spectrum rather than cellular bands. Its job passed to LTE — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
