Agri-Valley Communications, a rural internet service provider in the US, will soon offer high-speed wireless broadband in certain rural areas of Michigan.

A1 Telekom Austria’s LTE network is operational now  in the capital Vienna, Austria. Earlier in June this year Telekom Austria had conducted a live LTE demonstration on the A1 network.

Broadcom Corporation has announced acquisition of Percello Ltd, a semiconductor company that offers digital baseband processors for WCDMA and LTE Femtocells.  

Alcatel-Lucent is partnering with KaR-Tel as its sole equipment supplier for the launch of the 700MHz LTE market pilot in Kazakhstan, according to a company announcement.

Bridgewater Systems has announced that Yota has selected the Bridgewater Service Controller (AAA) to support the rollout of its new national WiMAX service in Nicaragua. The  WiMAX network

Alcatel-Lucent has gone live at LTE emergency communications demonstration network in Boulder, CO, which is being managed by the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program.

Telefonica O2 Germany is starting the next stage of LTE deployments in rural areas.

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected by Deutsche Telekom for immediate roll-out of LTE in 800 MHz band. Deutsche Telekom AG will launch LTE later this year in Germany.

ITU has completed the assessment of six candidate submissions for the global 4G mobile wireless broadband technology, otherwise known as IMT-Advanced. 

Alcatel-Lucent has announced that it will cooperate with Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories (CHT-TL) to conduct an end-to-end Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial, using both the 2.6 GHz and 700 MHz bands.

MetroPCS has begun commercial 4G LTE services in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit is the third U.S. city where MetroPCS is offering commercial 4G LTE service.

Nokia Siemens Networks has successfully demonstrated the TD-LTE using broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum in India.

Aptilo Networks has announced plans to add LTE to its portfolio of service management and policy control solutions for operators.

Cellcom, a provider of communications services throughout Wisconsin and Michiga,  has selected the Bridgewater to deliver IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) femtocell services and for its LTE netwo

Femto Forum has published a set of APIs to enable LTE femtocell semiconductors and protocol software stacks from different vendors to interoperate. 

Motorola and Nokia have entered into a 4G license agreement that extends the companies’ existing intellectual property licensing agreement to include 4G cellular technologies, such as LTE, WiMAX an

Colombian telecoms operator UNE EPM has planned to launch LTE services in three or four large cities during the second half of next year.

Tata Elxsi has announced the availability of its optimized LTE Femto/Pico eNodeB solution compliant to 3GPP Release 8 and Femto Forum specifications.

Femtocells appeal to the majority of US broadband householders with mobile phones according to Femto Forum, an independent industry and operator association .

Broadcom Corporation has announced acquisition of Beceem Communications, a privately-held company that is a provider of 4G wireless platform solutions.

Shanghai Bell has announced the launch of the new TD- LTE concept car during the P&T/EXPO COMM CHINA 2010 on Monday. 

IPWireless has announced that Public Service Wireless (PSW) is deploying a high speed wireless Internet network utilizing IPWireless LTE platform.

ZTE has demonstrated its high-speed LTE-advanced system with 1Gbit/second when it debuted at the P&T/Expo Comm China in Beijing, according to a company statement.

Alvarion and Canada’s rural broadband internet provider Barrett Xplore have announced plans to deploy the 4G WiMAX network in Canada.

Qualcomm is integrating L-Band LTE technology in its mainstream chipset roadmap according to a statment from LightSquared.

Switzerland’s telecom service provider Swisscom is currently testing the LTE in Grenchen.

Canada’s service provider Rogers Communications has announced the launch of LTE network technical trial with Ericsson Canada in the Ottawa area.

Verizon has announced rapid deployment of the a large-scale LTE network today from the CTIA Enterprise & Applications 2010 conference.

Verizon Wireless will hold a news conference on 6 October during CTIA Enterprise & Applications 2010, in San Francisco according to the company press release. 

Samsung Electronics and Japan’s UQ Communications are demonstrating WiMAX 2 based on IEEE 802.16m with a speed of 330Mbps.