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Huawei signs LTE deals with TELUS, Bell

Huawei has signed agreements with Canada’s service providers TELUS and Bell Mobility to provide LTE RAN equipments. Bell Mobility will use RAN equipments to continue expansion of the recently launched…

Sprint: Baltimore and Kansas City to get LTE in 2012

Baltimore and Kansas City will have 4G LTE and upgraded 3G service by mid-2012, Sprint said today. Sprint already have announced plans to offer LTE services in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston…

Bouygues Telecom selects Ericsson for 2G, 3G upgrade and LTE rollout

French service provider has selected Bouygues Telecom for upgrade of its 2G/3G radio networks and rollout of 4G LTE equipments. Operator plans to transform its existing 2G and 3G radio…

Hutchison Telecom wins 30MHz block in 2.3GHz Band

Hutchison Telephone Company has won bid for a block of 30MHz spectrum for a utilisation fee of HK$150 million in the auction of radio spectrum in the 2.3GHz band held…

Rogers to launch new LTE devices and price plans

Rogers plans to launch two new LTE devices to offer the faster speeds to its customers. In addition operator will offer more LTE plan options.  Operator will launch the Sierra…

Seventeen vendors adopt Femto Forum LTE small cell APIs

Seventeen manufacturers have so far adopted the Femto Forum APIs for their upcoming LTE products including Airvana, AirWalk Communications, Broadcom, Cisco, Freescale, ip.access, mimoOn , Mindspeed, Picochip, Radisys, Tata Elxsi,…

Moldtelecom Announces 4G LTE Readiness

Moldova’s operator Moldtelecom has announced LTE readiness in collaboration with Huawei and ZTE. Operator marked the introduction of next generation communication solutions, presenting live, the exhibition of local products.

America Movil picks Alcatel-Lucent for LTE infrastructure in Latin America

Latin American wireless services provider America Movil has selected Alcatel-Lucent to provide infrastructure for its 4G LTE network rollout in Latin America. The deployment will commence with America Movil’s operator…

Ericsson and Qualcomm Demonstrate SRVCC Voice Handover between LTE and WCDMA

Ericsson together with Qualcomm successfully performed a voice handover based on the 3GPP-standardized functionality Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) demonstrating users will experience seamless voice services when they move…

U.S. Cellular to launch LTE Network in March

U.S. Cellular is launching a 4G LTE network next month in conjunction with its partner, King Street Wireless. The LTE network will cover 25 percent of U.S. Cellular’s customers. The…

Vodafone Portugal ready to launch LTE network

Vodafone is prepared to launch LTE network very soon in Portugal. Vodafone will deploy 4G around the country, with the initial coverage available in thirteen district capitals – Braga, Porto,…

LTE spending to reach $24.3 billion in 2013

LTE is expected to claim the major share of wireless infrastructure capital spending next year as mobile carriers migrate towards it. Global capital spending on LTE technology is projected to…

Rogers to expand LTE to more than 25 Canadian cities this year

Canada’s wireless network operator, Rogers plans to expand to more than 25 additional cities this year.

DOCOMO Extends LTE Discount Offer

Japanese operator NTT DOCOMO has extended the discount for it’s LTE service Xi from May 1 to September 30, 2012.

Everything Everywhere and BT Wholesale extend LTE trial

UK’s Everything Everywhere and BT Wholesale have extended live multi-operator customer trial of LTE broadband.

Telstra launches first LTE smartphone in Australia

Telstra has launched Australia’s first 4G LTE smartphone HTC Velocity today.

KT signs LTE deployment deal with Nokia Siemens Networks

South Korean operator KT has selected Nokia Siemens Networks as one of its LTE mobile broadband infrastructure and services vendors.

Infonetics: Femtocell market set to double in 2012

Market research firm Infonetics Research expects global femtocell revenue nearly to double this year while unit shipments grow at nearly 140% compared to 2011.

IMT-Advanced Specifications Agreed at ITU Radio Assembly

Specifications for next-generation mobile technologies – IMT-Advanced – have been agreed at the ITU Radiocommunication Assembly currently meeting in Geneva.

China Mobile and Clearwire Agree on Joint IOT Plan for TD-LTE Devices

China Mobile and Clearwire has agreed on common test specifications and joint interoperability testing (IOT) for TD-LTE devices in the global band configurations, inclu

Omnitel expands LTE coverage in Lithuania

Omnitel, TeliaSonera’s subsidiary in Lithuania, has expanded its LTE network coverage to most of the territory of Kaunas and the capital of the northern and western dis

EMT to expand LTE coverage to 70% of population in Estonia

TeliaSonera’s subsidiary, the mobile operator EMT in Estonia,  plans to extend LTE coverage to 70 percent of the country’s population.

Nokia and AT&T announce LTE Lumia 900 at CES 2012

At the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Nokia and AT&T have introduced Nokia Lumia 900, the first of Nokia’s Windows Phone with LTE connectivity.

Sprint announces first LTE devices: Galaxy Nexus, LG Viper and Sierra Wireless Hotspot

After announcing LTE rollout plans last week, Sprint today announced the first set of devices for its 4G LTE network – Galaxy Nexus, LG Viper and Sierra Wireless Tri-Ne

Sprint to offer LTE services in 4 markets in first half of 2012

Sprint plans to offer 4G LTE and improved 3G coverage in Dallas, Atlanta, Houston and San Antonio markets in the first half of 2012.

AT&T adds 11 new LTE markets

AT&T has launched 4G LTE services in in 11 more markets. This addition makes AT&T LTE available in a total of 26 markets to 74 million consumers. 

Mindspeed to Acquire ‘Small Cells’ Maker Picochip

Mindspeed  Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire U.K.based Picochip Limited for a purchase price of approx $51.8 million, plus a potential earnout paymen

ABI Research: Half a Million TD-LTE Base Stations by 2016

According to ABI Research at least half a million base stations will be installed or upgraded for TD-LTE by the end of 2016.

Viva introduces LTE network in Bahrain

Viva Bahrain has launched its LTE network. The new technology was introduced in Bahrain City Centre on 01 January 2012.

T-Mobile launches the commercial LTE service in Hungary

T-Mobile (Magyar Telekom Group) has launched the 4G LTE based mobile internet service in Hungary.