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For most people, mobile connectivity is an absolute must. Unfortunately, the recent advances in telecommunications technologies and next-generation networks are still not enough to provide everyone with the wireless coverage that they require.

Frost & Sullivan, a leading provider of Growth Partnership Services to corporations, has recently announced the results of its analysis of World General Purpose Test and Equipment Markets. The world general purpose test equipment market has recovered significantly post-economic recession due to continuous development of wireless standards. By end of the 2010 the market had earned revenues of $1,658.9 million and is expected to reach $1,845.4 million in 2017.

Wi-Ex, a provider of cell phone signal boosters, announced its support of the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on cell phone signal boosters.

At the recent International CTIA Wireless 2011 in Orlando, Florida, four companies came together to demonstrate next generation long-term evolution (LTE) base station advances. Mindspeed Technologies, Interphase Corp., Continuous Computing, and Ixia jointly demonstrated an application-ready LTE eNodeB development system. In fact, two running LTE eNodeB solutions were shown to the attendees at CTIA, according to Interphase.

Sidera Networks, the leading provider of solutions for fiber optic-based networks, will offer dedicated Internet access over a high-capacity fiber optic network to Bloomsbury USA. The upgraded network will cater to Bloomsbury's growing demands for reliability and bandwidth and will support its major business applications.

Juniper Research provides research and analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, providing consultancy, analyst reports and industry commentary. It conducted research on the total mobile data traffic through the network and forecast that this would increase tremendously by 2015.

A leading provider of testing solutions in the fields of Communications Test and Measurement, Communications and Commercial Optical Products, and Advanced Optical Technologies, JDSU recently enhanced its market-leading J-Complete tool set with the introduction of SAMComplete (Service Activation Methodology).