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Today's Top Stories
1. Nokia Siemens: Business as usual for now
2. Rumor mill: Google's next Nexus 7 arriving in July with LTE
3. IndoorAtlas magnetically attracts $640,000 seed round
4. AT&T, MetroPCS, Sprint and Verizon sign onto Barclays Center DAS
5. Microwave gear vendors ready to invade millimeter-wave market

Editor's Corner: It's time to take another look at cell phone radiation

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Editor's Corner

It's time to take another look at cell phone radiation

By Tammy Parker Comment | Forward | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

I was pleased to see that the FCC launched an inquiry into cell phone radiation emission standards, not because I have an opinion regarding the current standards but, rather, because I don't.

Conspiracy theorists would disagree, but taken as a whole the overall collection of studies linking cell phones to health problems such as brain tumors remains inconclusive. However, I don't dismiss the idea that there may be a problem.

A good friend's husband passed away a few years ago from a fast-growing malignant glioma tumor that formed right above the ear where he routinely held his handset, and, being in sales, he had become a power user of the cell phone as soon as he could get his hands on one. His neurosurgeon at the time said he was seeing increasing numbers of these types of tumors and was convinced that they are caused by cell phone use.

On the other hand, brain cancer was knocking off people long before cell phones arrived on the scene. There are three main things I know about my Grandma Parker: She played the banjo, danced a mean Charleston and died of a brain tumor during the 1950s in California, which is why I never got to meet her. If she had died 50 years later, her neurosurgeon probably would have blamed her cell phone.

The ongoing debate over perceived health effects from cell phones reminds me of an episode of 20/20 (if it wasn't 20/20, it was a similar investigative news show) that aired sometime in the late 1970s-early 1980s. The episode focused on health risks caused by uranium mill tailings in my hometown of Grand Junction, Colo., where the tailings were widely used during the 1950s and 1960s as fill dirt.

As I recall the episode, several people who had moved to the town in the 1970s came down with various cancers such as leukemia and were blaming it on exposure to gamma radiation and radon gas emitted by the mill tailings. One scene filmed on Main Street addressed how the entire downtown area registered high radiation readings. The camera crew filmed the scene near the front door of my father's business.

Around that time, folks from the federal government showed up at my parents' house and told them they would be digging up and replacing all of the sidewalks on their property as well as the entire driveway because the original concrete had been mixed with radioactive uranium mill tailings. I don't know if this "mitigation" actually reduced health risks from the tailings, but I do know the feds' contractor didn't get the sidewalk level near the front door. Every winter since, anyone coming and going slips and slides across the sheet of ice that forms in the indentation, which I would consider a major health risk on its own.

My dad lived in that house for 50 years and passed away last year at age 94. I'd say he did pretty well healthwise, but were his various aches, pains and illnesses over the years due mainly to the aging process or the gamma rays in the uranium mill tailings? Did the folks who moved to Grand Junction in the late 1970s develop their cancers due to exposure to the tailings or were their arrivals and subsequent cancer diagnoses simply unhappy coincidences?

As Ellen Degeneres would say, "My point…and I do have one" is this: We don't know the answers to those questions, just as we don't have the full story regarding the presence or absence of health effects stemming from mobile phone use.

The only way such questions will be answered is through lots of additional research. It's a long shot, but maybe some of the $100 million the Obama White House wants to commit to its Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative could find its way into addressing the handset-brain cancer debate.

I'd really like to see new research that also takes into account the real world usage of handsets, which these days are more often held in one's hand away from the body while the user plays games, checks in on social media or views videos. Intriguingly, if there ever actually were harmful brain effects caused by holding a handset to one's head while making a voice call, those might be mitigated by the evolution of the smartphone and its role in our lives.

But that's only conjecture, and that's why more research is needed.--Tammy

P.S. What do you think? Is there a need for additional research on the effect of RF radiation from cell phones on human health? Give us your response in the poll on our home page.

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1. Nokia Siemens: Business as usual for now

By Tammy Parker Comment | Forward | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

While its parents ponder a likely divorce, former problem child Nokia Siemens Networks continues to shine, pursuing various business initiatives on the day that the six-year-old partnership agreement between Nokia (NYSE:NOK) and Siemens officially expired.

The parent companies have reportedly agreed to continue running their joint venture, while Siemens seeks a respectable exit.

In the meantime, NSN announced it won a contract to deploy an LTE network layer atop TIM Brasil's existing NSN-supplied 2G and 3G networks in the 2.6 GHz frequency band.

"Our long-term partnership with Nokia Siemens Networks has been excellent, and the 2G and 3G equipment installed by the company is performing so well that it was a natural decision to deploy an LTE network with the same vendor," said Marco di Costanzo, mobile network head at TIM Brasil.

NSN will supply TIM Brasil with its Flexi Multiradio Base Station, which enables a single radio access network (RAN) for GSM, 3G, FDD-LTE and TD-LTE. Nokia Siemens Networks will also upgrade TIM Brasil's NetAct network management system to enable consolidated monitoring, management and optimization of its network and will provide Intelligent Self Organizing Networks the capability for increased automation and faster rollout.

Implementation of the LTE network will be done on a city-by-city basis in preparation for Brazil's hosting of the Confederations Cup 2013 and Football World Cup 2014 events.

Flush with its recent successes, NSN is investing in facilities upgrades and R&D. The company is planning multimillion-dollar investments at its current property in Arlington Heights, Ill., which housed the former Motorola operations acquired by NSN, reported the Arlington Heights Patch.

NSN also intends to double the size of its NetworkLabs research & development facility in Quezon City, Philippines, which is focused on advancing 3G and 4G wireless technologies. "The R&D facility here already has 400 employees. It should be 460 by the end of the quarter because we just opened a new floor. It's definitely expanding this year," John Lancaster-Lennox NSN, Asia south sub-region head, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

"There's talk of doubling the size. We don't know how long that would take, but that's the direction we are taking," he added.

The facilities improvements and expansion are particularly noteworthy given that NSN has been working since late 2011 to slash up to 17,000 jobs and divest of non-core assets as it strives to surpass $1.33 billion in cost reductions by the end of 2013. For example, on March 30, Toronto-based Redknee announced the closing of its acquisition of NSN's Business Support Systems (BSS) business unit under a deal announced in December 2012.

NSN, which carries an estimated enterprise value of between $8 billion and $10 billion, has been a bright spot for Nokia of late, contributing more than 45 percent of Nokia's sales in 2012. Morgan Stanley has calculated that NSN represents about $1 a share for Nokia's stock price, which has been hovering around $3.25 per share. That means the Finnish vendor will likely try to hold onto NSN for the time being, though it will want to cash out eventually.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Morgan Stanley equities analyst Francois Meunier recently enumerated three potential scenarios for NSN if Siemens bails as expected. The first involves attracting a partner to fund Nokia's buying out Siemens' stake or ditching the effort altogether. The second includes Nokia rounding up a new shareholder, such as Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU), to take the place of Siemens, while yet another possibility would be an initial public offering.

For more:
- see this Nokia Siemens release
- see this Forbes article
- see this Philippine Business Inquirer article
- see this Arlington Heights Patch article
- see this Redknee release
- see this Wall Street Journal article (sub. req.)

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2. Rumor mill: Google's next Nexus 7 arriving in July with LTE

By Tammy Parker Comment | Forward | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) second-generation Nexus 7 tablet will reportedly arrive around July and will pack a Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) Snapdragon processor, apparently chosen in part for its ability to tightly integrate with the chipmaker's 3G/LTE baseband modem.

Reuters reported the July launch date and said Google intends to ship 6 million to 8 million Nexus 7 tablets--manufactured by Asustek--in the second half of 2013. Enders Analysis mobile industry analyst Benedict Evans has estimated that 4.6 million first-generation Nexus 7s sold in the same period last year after its June release.

The new Nexus 7 is expected to offer higher screen resolution and have a thinner bezel. Citing "sources with knowledge of the new product," Reuters said the next-generation tablet will be aggressively priced in order to encourage adoption and gain more exposure for Google's ads. Current pricing is $199 for the 16 GB version of the first-generation product with Wi-Fi only and $249 for the 32 GB version.

Google may retain similar pricing for the new version and discount the old model or could discount each version of the new model by $50 and discontinue the previous model, said Reuters. Either option would have Google undercutting the lowest priced Apple iPad mini, which starts at $300 for a version with Wi-Fi.

It has been rumored for several weeks that the new Nexus 7 will include a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, which will replace the Nvidia Tegra 3 chip used in last year's Nexus 7 model. Google, Qualcomm and Nvidia declined to comment, said Reuters.

It also was rumored that Google was eyeing Nvidia's new Tegra 4, which includes an integrated LTE baseband modem. Reports have pointed to production delays for that product, but Reuters said Qualcomm won the bid based because its chip showed better power consumption that Nvidia's.

Offering another point of view, Pacific Crest analyst Michael McConnell predicted back in February that Qualcomm's Snapdragon APQ8064 chip would be selected due to pricing as well as Google's desire to source the application processor and 3G/LTE baseband modem from a single supplier. That would take care of logistical issues as well as ensure tighter component integration.

It also would indicate that Google is ready to include LTE in the Nexus 7. The current version offers only Wi-Fi with the option to add GSM/HSPA+.

Similarly, in October when Google and its partner LG Electronics announced the Nexus 4 smartphone, many were disappointed that the device does not include LTE capability. Andy Rubin, Google's senior vice president of mobile and Android chief at the time, indicated the company did not want to deal with the cost and battery-life issues engendered by including multiple generations of radios. Google was also likely concerned about LTE spectrum fragmentation issues.

It appears, however, that the company may be ready to acknowledge that LTE is now a "must have" for potential tablet buyers.

Google will likely release information on the new Nexus 7 during its I/O Conference, May 15-17, in San Francisco.

For more:
- see this Reuters article
- see this ComputerWorld article
- see this Motley Fool article

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3. IndoorAtlas magnetically attracts $640,000 seed round

By Tammy Parker Comment | Forward | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

IndoorAtlas, a Finland-based indoor location and positioning technology startup, snagged a seed-round investment of about $640,000 from Dallas-based Mobility Ventures to help develop its vision of using magnetic anomalies inside buildings and smartphones to accurately pinpoint positions.

IndoorAtlas began last year as a spin-off from the University of Oulu, Finland. According to a white paper from the company, its location technology is partly inspired by creatures such as spiny lobsters, which use local anomalies in the earth's magnetic field "not only for orientation detection but also for true navigation."

The company contends that modern buildings with reinforced concrete and steel structures also possess unique, spatially varying ambient magnetic fields that can be used for positioning. "In IndoorAtlas' location technology, anomalies (fluctuations) of ambient magnetic fields are utilized in indoor positioning. This has been facilitated by modern smartphones and the rapid development of sensor technology," said the company.

Indoor Atlas' core technology is a software-only location system that requires a smartphone with built-in sensors. Among other things, the company claims its technology can radically improve navigation capabilities in environments where GPS and Wi-Fi systems are unavailable. The accuracy in IndoorAtlas' technology in modern buildings is said to range from 0.1 meter to 2 meters.

To enable positioning, an application uses the IndoorAtlas API to communicate with the company's cloud-based location service. "The API sends processed sensor data to the location service, which computes the current location estimate and delivers the estimate back to the application's event listener method through the API," said the company.

Roman Kikta, managing partner at Dallas-based Mobility Ventures, which participated in IndoorAtlas' seed round, called indoor positioning "the next frontier for location-based services, offering a plethora of diverse applications and the ability of providing rich contextual information about people and objects that can prove to be very valuable when combined with 'big data' kinds of analytics presenting enticing advertising and branding possibilities which could revolutionize retail marketing."

"Apart from by improving the ability to analyze customer behavior and influence it with quick calls to action to increase sales, universities could allow students to chart classrooms, hospitals could streamline the movement of patients and organizations & governments can track movement of people for convenience and safety purposes," said David Sym-Smith, partner, Mobility Ventures.

The indoor-location market is rapidly catching fire. Late last month, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) forked over a reported $20 million to acquire WifiSLAM, a two-year-old startup whose mobile apps use Wi-Fi signals to locate smartphones inside of buildings to an accuracy of 2.5 meters.

Apple has been racing to improve its mapping capabilities as it battles Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Google's Android OS in the marketplace. Google Maps for mobile added indoor mapping tools in late 2011, supplying contextual data helping users determine where they are within a building, which floor they're on and where they might wish to go next. Google already offers indoor mapping for locations such as airports, shopping malls, casinos, sports venues and even museums through its crowdsourced Indoor Maps project.

For more:
- see this Mobility Ventures release
- see this cellular-news article
- see thisVatorNews article

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4. AT&T, MetroPCS, Sprint and Verizon sign onto Barclays Center DAS

By Tammy Parker Comment | Forward | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

Four leading U.S. mobile operators will use ExteNet Systems' new distributed antenna system (DAS) in the massive Barclays Center sports and entertainment venue.

Brooklyn Nets - Barclays Center

The Barclays Center spans 675,000-square feet and seats up to 19,000 people.

Using the DAS to extend their coverage at the Brooklyn, N.Y., site are AT&T (NYSE:T), MetroPCS (NYSE:PCS), Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ). Missing from the mix is T-Mobile USA, which is endeavoring to acquire MetroPCS, whose shareholders are slated to vote on T-Mobile's offer April 12.

The Barclays Center spans 675,000-square feet, seats up to 19,000 people and is home to the NBA's Brooklyn Nets. The venue is also slated to host more than 200 events in its inaugural year, including concerts, sports, family shows and special events.

"MetroPCS is proud to be the exclusive wireless telecommunication services founding partner with Barclays Center," said Michael Johnson, vice president and regional general manager of MetroPCS' New York region.

"Basketball fans and entertainment seekers at Barclays Center will benefit from the enhanced coverage made possible by this joint effort that we know will provide our customers with a top-notch mobile experience," said Chad Townes, vice president of AT&T's antenna solutions group.

"We recognize that Barclays Center is a highly prestigious venue, and it was imperative for us to provide our customers with seamless coverage and advanced capacity," commented Iyad Tarazi, Sprint's vice president of small cell forms.

Pat Devlin, president of Verizon Wireless' New York metro region, noted the DAS will extend the operator's LTE and 3G services into the Barclays Center. Verizon Wireless also recently made its own DAS deployment across the country at San Francisco's Westfield Mall on Market Street in order to improve coverage, according to Rapid TV News.

Primary markets addressed by Lisle, Ill.-based ExteNet include outdoor distributed networks for use by wireless carriers plus indoor verticals such as sports and entertainment venues, commercial real estate, healthcare, higher education, hospitality and government agencies. The company uses DAS, small cell and other technologies to enhance coverage and capacity.

For more:
- see this ExteNet release
- see this Rapid TV News article

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5. Microwave gear vendors ready to invade millimeter-wave market

By Tammy Parker Comment | Forward | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

Numerous suppliers of microwave equipment are preparing to add millimeter-wave gear to their portfolios as operators increasingly took to the latter category to provide backhaul for LTE macrocells and small cells, according to a fresh report.

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Infonetics Research forecasts the global millimeter wave equipment market will grow to just under $600 million by 2017. Infonetics said the market includes unlicensed E-band, licensed E-band and W-band millimeter-wave equipment.

"The market is on track to more than double this year, followed by continued healthy growth going forward, powered by the increased use of millimeter wave for LTE macrocell backhaul and small cells--most of which use the unlicensed 60 GHz band," said Richard Webb, directing analyst for microwave and carrier Wi-Fi at Infonetics.

While BridgeWave retains its overall market share leadership, capturing just under a third of total millimeter-wave revenue in 2012, the vendor is facing an onslaught of new competition, said Infonetics. Among the major microwave vendors expected to introduce millimeter-wave products are Aviat Network, Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), Fujitsu and Huawei.

Fueling the business plans for these new market entrants is the fact that increasing numbers of mobile operators are turning to millimeter wave to augment their existing microwave macrocell backhaul deployments. "The enhanced capacities made possible by millimeter wave are proving to be a viable solution for backhaul in metro areas where range limitations aren't always problematic," said Webb.

Meanwhile, the microwave backhaul market is also continuing to grow. Microwave equipment will constitute 56 percent of mobile backhaul revenue by 2017, said Infonetics.

The total mobile backhaul market continues to expand, driven by increased spending on backhaul for macrocells as well as small cells.

 "While its revenue growth rate is slowing, macrocell mobile backhaul equipment remains a huge market, with annual spending up in the $8 to $9 billion range over the next years. Just a few years ago in 2009, the market was worth under $5 billion," said Michael Howard, Infonetics co-founder and principal analyst for carrier networks.

The small cell backhaul equipment market, meanwhile, is expected to total a cumulative $5 billion from 2012-2016, according to Infonetics.

Key drivers for mobile backhaul expansion are "the ongoing HSPA/HSPA+ onslaught across the 3GPP world and growing LTE deployments by 3GPP2 players," said Howard. "If you don't have packet backhaul, there's no way to handle HSPA and HSPA+. Ethernet and microwave backhaul spending are fueling the whole market."

Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) are tied for the Ethernet access device/gateway and Ethernet router revenue market share lead, said Infonetics, which gave Ericsson top ranking in mobile backhaul microwave equipment.

For more:
- see this Infonetics release and this release

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