OPA President Says LTE Patent Pool Effort Must Change

By Maisie Ramsay, WirelessWeek – June 22, 2009In many ways, LTE is viewed as WiMAX’s smarter and more attractive sibling. LTE has been adopted by wealthy, high-profile industry heavyweights while WiMAX found its niche in less glamorous areas, like emerging markets in remote corners of the globe.

Ericsson signs LTE patent deals

Mon Jun 22, 2009, STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson has signed its first license agreements for LTE technology patents, allowing other companies to use the technology, an Ericsson official said on Monday.

Tensilica Announces New High-Performance ConnX Communications DSP Family for LTE and 4G SOC Designs

SANTA CLARA, CA — 06/22/09 — Tensilica,® Inc. today introduced a new family of high-performance communications DSP (digital signal processors) IP (intellectual property) cores — the ConnX DSP family — that include standard cores, click-box configurable options or a starting point for customized Xtensa® LX DPUs (dataplane processor units) for SOC (system-on-chip) designs.