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Microlease, a leading company in the rental and management of test and measurement equipment, has been awarded the 2012 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award by the analyst firm Frost & Sullivan in the US. The recognition comes just six months after the company acquired MetricTest, a US-based provider of solutions for the purchase, rental, and leasing of electronic test equipment.

Promax launches a new aid campaign for type B and type F installers aimed at renewing their instrument fleet.

Anritsu has signed a factory testing technology licensing agreement with Qualcomm Incorporated for Qualcomm's factory testing solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Anritsu can provide turnkey factory testing software solutions for all cellular and connectivity standards.

ITworldEdu announces the fifth edition of the ITWorldEdu Award for Educational Innovation in the ICT field. This year, the second ITWorldEdu Award for the best ICT solution applied to education by a company will also be presented. This award is open to projects involving technological products and solutions developed by a company participating in ITWorldEdu 2012 and implemented in an educational institution.

Japanese cable manufacturer Fujikura Ltd has announced plans to buy American telecommunications equipment company Nistica Inc, seeking to expand in optical equipment for high-speed networks.

Fibercom has successfully completed the IT cabling for CaixaBank's new data center. The project, completed entirely in a record time of four months, involved the manufacture, installation, and certification of over 300,000 meters of cable and 150,000 connectors and adapters.
The installed solution was specifically designed and customized for CaixaBank.

The company Ezentis, in a consortium in which it holds a 20% stake, has won a tender to install fiber optics in Argentina for an amount of 48.5 million euros, according to the National Securities Market Commission.

The project will last a year and a half, tendered by the Argentine Satellite Solutions Company, for the execution and commissioning of 8,100 kilometers of fiber optic cable in the provinces of Formosa, Chico, Salta and Jujuy, which will be part of the Federal Fiber Optic Network of the Argentine Republic.

GSMA's Wireless Intelligence service has produced a report indicating that global adoption of LTE services risks being hampered by interoperability issues between devices, unless harmonised spectrum band plans can be achieved.

Frost & Sullivan has awarded Anritsu the 2011 Global Customer Improvement Award in passive intermodulation (PIM) testing.

Green Hills Software, a leading independent provider of embedded software solutions, has announced that its compilers,