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Luke Collins, Communications Editor

Luke Collins

is the Communications section editor for E&T.

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  • Chinese fella playing Jenga

    Complex communications

    Faster data rates for mobile broadband are being made possible by piling one technology upon another, according to E&T.

Latest articles

  • Hush your mouth!

    There are plenty of ways of protecting data on laptops from falling into the wrong hands. But what do you do when the data you want to protect is a conversation from a mobile phone?

  • The magic of mobile phones?

    Mobile phones are good news for developing countries, according to the vendors – but the reality is more complicated than that, says E&T.

  • Turn green at the next corner

    Can satellite navigation systems, car-to-car and car-to-road communications help reduce carbon emissions?

  • Slow down to speed up

    Slowing down light could speed up telecommunications networks - E&T investigates.

  • Doing time

    Mobile operators are having to find new ways of synchronising their base station networks as they shift to packet-based backhaul connections. E&T explores their options.

  • IETtv Future Direction of the UK Milsatcom (Skynet 6)

    Presentation from military satellite communications systems

Features

[You write it!] Green Radio: Sustainable Wireless Networks

Will it be possible to keep increasing global mobile subscriber numbers without creating environmentally unfriendly energy demands?

[You write it!] Extending the cash runway for start-ups

Can rental services help start-ups manage their early cashflow?

[You write it!] - Ubiquitous low-data-rate devices

Are we missing a trick by not paying as much attention to low data-rate systems as we do to those with high data rates?

[You write it!] Performance management in unified communications

Building unified communications networks takes quality of experience management as well as quality of service guarantees.

[You write it!] Building a cellular network onboard ships

How do you provide cellular network coverage onboard a ship far out to sea?

[You write it!] Carrier Ethernet services with MPLS

The ins and outs of implementing Carrier Ethernet services with MPLS

[You write it!] Exploiting xDSL applications

As mobile networks evolve from being voice-only services towards handling multi-media content, the economics of the wireless infrastructure need to evolve as well.

[You write it!] Ultrawideband: not dead yet

Marty Colombatto, chief executive officer of wireless USB chip company Staccato Communications, says that the ultra-wideband based technology is just beginning to take off.

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