At an investor conference in New York, Verizon’s CEO Ivan Seidenberg said that Verizon’s new data plans would be different from AT&T’s plans, but he didn’t provide details.

TeliaSonera has launched commercial LTE network  in Lund, Sweden which became the fifth city with 4G coverage. LTE is already available in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Visby.

MetroPCS has introduced first commercially available 4G LTE enabled handset, the Samsung Craft with it’s commercial LTE launch in Las Vegas.

Sprint & Clearwire have officially announced the launch of 4G WiMAX services in Orlando today. Orlando is the third city in Florida to receive 4G service.

Russian operators MegaFon and Rostelecom have successfully tested LTE network in Sochi.

South Korea based service provider SK Telecom is reportedly in talks with Harbinger Capital Partners to invest about a US$100 million  in LightSquared.

Several years ago backhaul was considered just an ancillary part of mobile base stations and did not get much attention from the industry.

The use of laptops and smartphones on mobile networks is a key driver for traffic growth.

Following up on last week’s article about the slate of activity that will take place around the launch of LTE before the end of 2010, a fresh barrage of news…

Denmark’s National IT and Telecom Agency (Telestyrelsen) has anounced the dates for holding the auction of spectrum in 900 MHz and 1800 MHz frequency bands.

T-Mobile USA has officialy launched the T-Mobile G2 with Google. G2, a successor to the T-Mobile G1, is first smartphone for it’s new HSPA+ network.

Most overseas vendors and industry forums are finding working in the Indian telecom sector to be no different from the screenplay of a complex Bollywood plot: unexpected twists and turns…

Clearwire has launched Rover, a pre paid mobile broadband service which works on company’s 4G WiMAX network. The Rover brand is mainly designed to attract young adults.

TeliaSonera’s Swedish subsidiary, Telia has commercially launched LTE services in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city.

Chile’s telecoms watchdog Subtel plans to launch auction for 4G LTE spectrum in the 2.6 GHz band inn December and expects to conclude it by mid-2011, reports bnamericas.

LightSquared, that wants to build a new nationwide 4G-LTE wireless broadband network integrated with satellite coverage, has initiated Phase 1 of a Cooperation Agreement between Inmarsat and LightS

India’s 3G enabled data subscriber base (notebooks, modems and dongles) will reach 40 million by 2015 and 4G subscriber base including 802.1e and TD-LTE adopters will reach 33 million subscribers…

MegaFon and Rostelecom have successfully tested their Fourth Generation LTE network close to the major Sochi 2014 site, Roza Khutor.

Clearwire has announced plans to test Test both FDD LTE and TDD LTE in US. In addition Clearwire  will test multiple coexistence scenarios between LTE and WiMAX as well.

Clearwire has introduced a new WiFi hotspot for Apple devices to provide 4G network speeds via WiFi connectivity.

Clearwire has announced the availability of it’s 4G wiMAX services in new markets in four states. 

Harris Corporation, a communications and information technology company, has launched Harris VIDA Broadband LTE, its new solution for broadband mission-critical communications for first responders.

picoChip has been selected by Rancore Technologies Ltd for the development of 4G base stations for rolling out next-generation wireless telecom networks in India.

Telefonica O2 Germany plans to launch two urban LTE networks in Munich and Halle by the end of 2010. Company is using 2.6 GHz spectrum in these areas.

Best Buy Connect & Clearwire have have entered in a partnership in which Best Buy will use Clearwire’s WiMAX network to offer mobile internet service to customers under the Best…

Mobile service provider Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) with services in Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) has announced the commercial launch of a 4G LTE network in Uzbekistan.

UK government has laid a statutory instrument (SI) before parliament requiring telecoms regulator Ofcom to launch a combined auction of frequencies in the 800MHz and 2100MHz band as soon as…

Clearwire has sold majority of its Irish WiMAX operations to Imagine Communications Group.

An analyst at Frost & Sullivan has claimed that Research In Motion (RIM) is working on 4G BlackBerry ‘Triton’  and it will be launched in December

America Movil plans to launch 4G mobile services (LTE likely) in Mexico with recently acquired wireless spectrum earlier this month.