Russia has invited China to participate in a project to build a satellite system for Ka band high-speed Internet access. The offer of cooperation was announced by Deputy Minister Naum Marder during a joint Russian-Chinese meeting on communications and information technologies held in Nizhny Novgorod in late August.
Samsung is presenting its “flagship 4-inch chic smartphone,” the Wave 3, along with other new models, at IFA 2011, a global trade show for consumer electronics that begins today in Berlin. Samsung seems to be the first major international handset manufacturer to offer a mobile phone with a GLONASS+GPS supported satellite location system. But the …
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The loss of the Express-AM4 communication satellite earlier this month has exposed the substantial difficulties facing the deployment of the DVB-T broadcasting network in Russia. Made by EADS Astrium, Express-AM4 satellite was equipped with transponders operating in C-, Ku-, Ka- and L-bands. These transponders were designed to provide DVB-T broadcasting and broadband Internet coverage across the …
Neubiberg, Germany – August 3, 2011 – Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today introduced a new series of Receive Front-End Modules for implementation of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) functionality in Smart Phones and other handheld devices. The new BGM103xN7 Series devices are the first modules available that support separate or simultaneous …
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Russian authorities are not ruling out the establishment of customs fees on imported hardware equipped with GPS navigators not supported by the Russian national satellite navigation system GLONASS. “Currently the fee is zero. There are plans to introduce customs fees for GPS equipment that is notoriented to GLONASS GPS. It is possible that [the customs …
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The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos plans to launch 18 satellites for US space communication provider Globalstar from the Baikonur spaceport by the end of 2011, the Interfax news agency reported this week citing a source in the Russian aerospace industry. According to the source, there will be a total three launches with payloads of …
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Leading Russian microelectronic device maker Sitronics and Chinese firm ZTE signed a memorandum announcing their planned joint venture at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last week The document was signed by Vladimir Evtushenkov, a major owner of Sitronics mother company Sistema, and ZTE President president Shi Lirong in the presence of Russian President Dmitry …
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Russian Navigation Technologies (RNT) announced last week that the story of its formation and growth has been included as a business case study at Stanford and a number of other US universities. RNT is Russia’s largest manufacturer and integrator of telematics systems and a leader on the Russian fleet management systems market. Its Auto Tracker …
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Roscosmos Deputy head Anatoly Shilov announced yesterday significant improvement in Glonass accuracy. “Today, the system’s precision is to 6 meters, compared to 7 meters for GPS. In the next one or two years we must achieve an accuracy of 2 to 3 meters.” The statement was made at an international forum on satellite navigation held in …
A few months after the first mass market GLONASS+GPS car navigation devices appeared on the Russian market, supply has been rising rapidly and prices have started to fall. Two navigators, the Lexand SG-555 and the Explay GN-510, were introduced fewer than two weeks ago by their producers, Lexand and Explay, at the recommended retail prices …
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During a visit to New Delhi last week, a top-level delegation of NIS GLONASS, Russia’s national provider of satellite-based navigation services, exchanged opinions with DIMTS, an urban transport and infrastructure services company backed by the Delhi government, about implementing intelligent transportation systems in Russian and Indian cities as well as about furthering commercial development. The …
The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC), a state-owned satellite communications operator, and Eutelsat, the leading European satellite operator, announced last week their plans to jointly launch a new direct-to-home (DTH) satellite to 36° East in 2015.
