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With LTE launch already scheduled next month, U.S. Cellular announced the next markets today that will have 4G LTE services by year end. In the second half of 2012, more…

Clearwire plans to roll-out LTE next year. Operator intends to have its first wave of TD-LTE 5,000 cell sites up and running by June 2013, FierceWireless reported earlier. With TDD-LTE…

Telecom Italia is launching public LTE trial starting tomorrow in Turin, Italy. Turin people will be able to try out Telecom Italia’s LTE enabled ultra-broadband services at connection speeds of…

Advanced semiconductor solutions supplier, Renesas Mobile has introduced MP5232, a single-chip dual 1.5GHz core communications processor to enable OEMs to accelerate the creation and delivery of high volume LTE/HSPA+ capable…

Peoples Telephone Cooperative, a NetAmerica Alliance Member, has begun offering 4G LTE data service in rural Texas. Peoples replaced its fixed wireless WiMax offering with LTE running on their 700MHz…

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected as one of the vendors to deploy and upgrade GSM and HSPA networks of T-Mobile Poland and Orange Poland. This upgrade will enable radio…

TELUS LTE wireless service will be available to Torontonians and GTA residents on Friday, February 10. TELUS plans to continue rolling out its 4G LTE coverage to more regions across…

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…

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…

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 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 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 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,…

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.

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 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 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 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 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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

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

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.