These include Sierra Wireless, Novatel Wireless, and a number of wireless chipset vendors.
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While all that was happening, Novatel's card business in Europe was under pricing pressure from competitor Sierra Wireless as well as a European competitor, Option.
Since 4G supports high-speed broadband data services, the first devices we can expect to see are USB wireless modems from companies such as Novatel, Sierra Wireless, Huawei, and others.
The news that Nokia and Intel are teaming up against Novatel and companies like Sierra Wireless is less threatening, since most companies have already locked in their orders for 2007.
The result could be that Novatel Wireless and competitors such as Sierra Wireless maintain their lead, since they already have established relationships, while Nokia and Intel rush to play catch-up in this area.
Moving right along, Canada's own Telus will be offering yet another new one from Sierra Wireless this March: the AirCard 319U USB modem, a device we recently spotted in the FCC's database.
Thanks to Verizon's blowout at CES, we've already been treated to a couple of LTE-friendly mobile hotspots from the likes of Samsung and Novatel Wireless, but Sierra Wireless is joining the crowd here at Mobile World Congress.
"Sierra Wireless has offered wireless modules with LTE support since 2010, and Qualcomm Gobi technology has been important to the success of our LTE module program, " said Dan Schieler, senior vice president and general manager, Mobile Computing for Sierra Wireless.
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Embedded modules based on the Gobi fifth generation reference platform will initially be available from Huawei, Novatel Wireless, Option, Sierra Wireless and ZTE in several form factors and regional configurations, making them a compelling 4G LTE solution for a variety of connected mobile devices.
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Rumor has it that the nation's largest CDMA carrier begins rolling out its EV-DO Revision A network this Friday, starting with ten cities (Sacramento and Salt Lake City among them) and a little data card we like to call the Sierra Wireless AirCard 595.
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Sierra Wireless's first stab at a Windows Mobile-powered smartphone, the Voq Professional Phone, was pretty much doomed from the start the design was awful, Sierra had zero experience in marketing handsets, and they were never able to convince a single wireless carrier to offer the phone to its subscribers (which for better or for worse is how most phones get sold in the US).
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