• Tyco Electronics has agreed to sell its wireless systems business to government contractor Harris Corporation for $675 million in cash, the Associated Press reports. The Bermuda-based maker of electronic components and undersea telecom systems said the sale will help it focus on its core connectivity business.
• UTStarcom says it has been selected as the technology supplier for the first mobile TV system across Hainan province, driven by China Telecom's Hainan branch. It’s the first large-scale mobile TV system in China to adopt UTStarcom's end-to-end RollingStream platform. The deployment is scheduled to go live on May 17 as an extension of the existing IPTV service that Hainan Telecom and UTStarcom have been delivering since 2006.
• Networks In Motion (NIM) and MERA Networks announced they have signed a long-term agreement in which MERA will provide dedicated resources to expand NIM's customer delivery abilities in Europe and provide NIM greater flexibly in meeting customers' needs there.