Editing Wireless Valley

'''''Wireless Valley''''' is a term that was coined by Professor [[Theodore Rappaport|Ted Rappaport]] in 1990 when he was a faculty member at [[Virginia Tech]], and was used to describe the [[Roanoke, Virginia|Roanoke]]/[[Blacksburg, Virginia]] region and the potential of research to create spin-out companies. In 1990 he and his students founded [[TSR Technologies]], a company that made software-defined cellular and paging intercept and drive test equipment that was sold to Allen Telecom in 1993, and in 1995 Wireless Valley Communications, a company that pioneered the creation of computer-aided [[wireless network]] prediction and management software that was sold to [[Motorola]] in late 2005. This term was later used as nickname to describe several regional clusters of companies in the [[information technology]] sector, in analogy to [[California|California's]] [[Silicon Valley]]:

* One such cluster is located in northern [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]].{{citation needed|date=July 2012}} This also included a number of companies that saw themselves as belonging to the new information based [[Economics|economy]]. [[Ericsson]], the [[telecommunications]] supplier, has one of its main design centers in the Stockholm suburb of [[Kista]].
* [[Finland]] also has a high-tech area in [[Espoo]], sometimes called "Wireless Valley", based on [[Nokia]] and [[Nokia Siemens Networks]].{{citation needed|date=July 2012}} There is a secondary hub located in [[Oulu]] which is the base for other wireless specialist companies too.
* A third such cluster consists of the telecommunications formed in [[San Diego]],<ref>Markoff, John, “‘Wireless Valley’ Growing in San Diego Area,” New York Times, March 24. 1997, URL: https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE4D7133BF937A15750C0A961958260</ref> based on [[Qualcomm]]
* A new high-tech program has been initialed in Nanjing, China, called 'China Wireless valley'.{{citation needed|date=July 2012}} It is based on two national key laboratories of Southeast University.

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