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TeliaSonera Opens Comercial LTE Network in Visby, Sweden

TeliaSonera has opened the 4G LTE network in Visby for its customers, with this launch Visby has become 3rd city with comercial LTE network after Stockholm and Oslo.

Ericsson Completes Acquisition of Nortel’s stake of LG-Nortel

Ericsson has completed the acquisition of Nortel’s majority shareholding in LG-Nortel, the joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel Networks.

TeliaSonera Launches 2G, 3G & 4G combined Modem

From 30th June, TeliaSonera is offering Samsung’s modem that works with 2G, 3G and 4G LTE networks. Modem is available for sales in Telia stores in central Stockholm and Visby. 

S.Korea’s SK Telecom invests $100m in Malaysian market

S.Korea’s mobile service provider SK Telecom has announced a strategic alliance with Malaysia’s Packet One Networks.

Mobilkom demonstrates LTE in Austria

Mobilkom & Telekom Austria have conducted a live LTE demonstration on the A1 network.

Docomo to lease LTE services

Japanese operator NTT Docomo will lease access to its new high-speed mobile LTE network to companies when it begins operation in December, Nikkei reported.

Alcatel-Lucent acquires Web 2.0 API repository ProgrammableWeb

In a surprise move, Alcatel-Lucent has acquired ProgrammableWeb, terms of the acquisition has not been disclosed.

Verizon Supports New Spectrum Initiative

Verizon Wireless has announced the support for President Obama’s Spectrum Effort.

Clearwire brings WiMAX to new markets

Clearwire has announced the availability of 4G WiMAX services Richmond, Virginia. Clearwire also launched 4G services in St. Louis, Mo. and Salt Lake City, the Wasatch Front, Utah.

Shaw Selects Nokia Siemens Networks to provide 3G/LTE Network

Canadian cable operator Shaw Communications has selected Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to provide the radio access network and core equipment for Shaw’s next generation wireless network. 

NEC launches backhaul solution for HSPA+ and LTE

NEC has launched  a ultra-high capacity backhaul solution “ePASOLINK”.

GSMA Seeks More Spectrum Allocations in India

Recently awarded 3G and Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) licences in India will help accelerate the much-needed deployment of Mobile Broadband networks and services across the country, however addit

TeliaSonera opens LTE network in Malmo & Gothenburg

Earlier this week TeliaSonera opened LTE network in Malmo & Gothenburg, Sweden.

Malaysian Operator Maxis Conducts LTE Trial

Malaysian mobile communications service provider Maxis Berhad has successfuly conducted the 4G LTE trial and has demonstrated dowload speeds of up to 104 Mbps.

Worldmax decides to close down Amsterdam WiMAX network

WiMAX Service Provider Worldmax has now decided to close down its network per August 1st 2010. Worldmax had deployed a  Metropolitan WiMAX 16e network in 2009 under th

Ericsson shows off LTE Voice & 100 Mbps data call

Ericsson has demonstrated LTE with a speed of 100 Mbps alongwith Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call  at their local offices in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Femto Forum announces Femtocell Industry Awards winners

The Femto Forum has announced the winners of the Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2010. The awards recognize outstanding achievement within, and contributions to, the femtocell industry.

Australia to auction LTE spectrum in second half of 2012

Australian Government has decided to release 126 Megahertz of broadcasting spectrum as a digital dividend.This spectrum will become available as a result of the switch to digital-only television br

Poland’s LTE tender by end of 2010

Polish telecom regulator Office of Electronic Communications (UKE), intends to launch a tender for LTE radio spectrums this year. 

Qualcomm Sampling Femtocell Chipsets

Qualcomm has started sampling its Femtocell Station Modem FSM9xxx-series chipsets.

Femto Forum announces interoperability testing event

Femto Forum has announced its second plugfest interoperability testing event which will focus on the Broadband Forum’s femtocell management standard. 

ZTE LTE Trial For Etisalat Complete

ZTE and UAE-based operator Etisalat have completed LTE Trials. The project was conducted in the Etisalat headquarters in Abu Dhabi’s according to c114.net.

TeliaSonera gearing up for LTE launch in Gothenburg, Sweden

TeliaSonera is preparing for commercial launch of 4G/LTE in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city soon.

Alcatel-Lucent demonstrates LTE Connected Car at G-8/G-20 Summits’ International Media Center

Alcatel-Lucent is demonstrating the LTE Connected Car concept in the ‘Experience Canada’ pavilion at the International Media Center for the G-8 and G-20 Summits during June 23 – 25, 2010. 

NTT DOCOMO plans LTE femtocell launch in 2011

NTT DoCoMo plans to launch commercial LTE femtocells between 2011 and 2012.

AT&T, Verizon join Wireless Broadband Alliance

AT&T and Verizon have joined Wireless Broadband Alliance (“WBA”), a group dedicated to global Wireless Broadband roaming for public Wi-Fi networks.

ip.access & Kineto Wireless complete femtocell IOT

ip.access and Kineto Wireless have completed interoperability testing (IOT) between ip.access’ Oyster 3G femtocell Access Point and Kineto’s Multi-Service Access Gateway (MSA-GW).

Indian Operator Aircel may choose both WiMAX & TD-LTE

India’s GSM service provider Aircel has indicated that it may choose WiMAX or TD-LTE for 2.3GHz spectrum deployments or it can roll out both. 

Verizon Wireless launches LTE user trials in 5 cities

Verizon Wireless is moving to “friendly user trials” of LTE in five unnamed cities.

Ericsson to showcase LTE in South Africa

Ericsson has planned to demonstrate LTE with a speed of 150 Mbps and HSPA Evolution with up to 84 Mbps at their local offices in Johannesburg, South Africa from 21 June…