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picoChip sells one million chips, sees revenue growth

picoChip has announced that it has sold one million chips and is on track to achieve over 50% quarter-on-quarter sequential revenue growth this calendar quarter. 

Ericsson refutes Informa study on LTE patents

Ericsson expects to hold 25 percent of all essential patents for LTE, making it the largest patent holder in the industry, according to company website. 

South African regulator ICASA extends spectrum application deadline

South African regulator ICASA (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa)  has extended the closing date for submissions of applications for spectrum in the 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz band

Batelco and Ericsson ink deal for network upgrade

Bahrain operator Batelco and Ericsson have inked a contract to enhance its mobile network.

Qualcomm looking for 3G partners to deploy LTE

After winning 4 circles in India’s BWA auction, Qualcomm is looking for 3G partners to deploy LTE.

Compact 3G/4G BTS Market Expected to Reach $13 Billion by 2015

The compact base station market opportunity for 3G/4G networks is expected to reach $13 billion by 2015 with initial deployments being set up in the 2011-12 timeframe, according to a…

Rubberduck partners Entel for LTE mobile TV trial in Chile

Rubberduck Media Lab has confimed that it had been engaged in trials with Entel PCS in Chile for high speed mobile TV over LTE tests. 

RIL acquires Infotel, may opt for TD-LTE

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has announced today the acquisition  of Infotel Broadband Services (P) Ltd, which has emerged as a successful bidder in all the 22 circles of the auction…

MultiService Forum Completes IOT of 3GPP EPC

The MSF (MultiService Forum) has announced completion of the global Evolved Packet Core (EPC) interoperability event.

BWA auction ends, Infotel wins big, Qualcomm gains

With the auction of BWA spectrum concluding today after 117 rounds over 16 days, the government is set to gain $8.6 billion.

Italian operator Wind selects Huawei for LTE/HSPA+

Italian telecom operator Wind has selected Huawei for development of HSPA+, LTE mobile networks, core network and fibre optics for ultra-wideband.

Zinwave Receivs FCC Certification for full LTE 700 MHz Spectrum

Zinwave has announced that its True Wideband active Distributed Antenna System (DAS) solution is the first on the market to receive Long Term Evolution (LTE) certification across the full 700…

Taiwanese regulator NCC allows upgrade to LTE from WiMAX

Taiwanese regulator National Communications Commission (NCC) has given postive signals to allow WiMAX opertaors to upgrade LTE using allocated spectrum.

SINOPEC Deploys Aperto’s WiMAX Products

Sinopec (China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation) has deployed Aperto’s PacketMAX WiMAX products to build a region-wide wireless broadband network in the Sichuan province of China.

Thailand plans WiMAX & LTE spectrum auction

Thailand’s telecoms regulator National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) plans to auction WiMAX, 3.9G (LTE) licences in September.

Alcatel-Lucent and Telefonica complete LTE calls in Latin America using 700 MHz band

Alcatel-Lucent and Telefonica have announced that they have successfully performed the first LTE call in Latin America using the 700 MHz frequency band “ which is particularly well suited to…

Alcatel-Lucent to Open LTE IOT Center in Taiwan

Alcatel-Lucent plans to open LTE IOT center in Taiwan at Yearend by the end of this year according to Alain Biston, Alcatel-Lucent’s president for North and South Asia operations.

ZTE and CSL win LTE Infrastructure Innovation award

ZTE and CSL have been awarded the LTE Infrastructure Innovation award as part of the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards 2010. 

Kineto and Bravo Tech Demo TD-SCDMA Femtocell Solution in Shanghai

Kineto Wireless and Bravo Tech Inc today announced that the companies are demonstrating an end-to-end TD-SCDMA-based femtocell solution at a facility in Shanghai.

BWA Auction Update Day 13: Pan-India Bid reaches $2.45B

On the 13th day of the auction the Pan-India bidding price has reached Rs 11,517.9 crore (approx US$2.45 billion), more than six times the reserve price of Rs 1,750 crore.

Play and Orange to bid together for LTE

Polish mobile service providers PTK Centertel (the operator of Orange network) and P4 (network operator, Play) plan to create a joint venture for the upcoming LTE spectrum rights in 2.6 G

Russian operator Rostelecom plans to build LTE network

Russian long-distance operator Rostelecom has applied to the State Commission for Radio Frequencies for construction of LTE networks in Sochi, reports Vedomosti. 

DOCOMO tests LTE network for commercial launch

NTT DOCOMO has started verifying its new commercial mobile network system based on the LTE in the Tokyo area, prior to the full-scale launch of extra-high-speed LTE commercial service in…

HTC EVO 4G Breaks Sales Records Says Sprint

Sprint claims that friday sales of HTC EVO 4G marked the largest quantity of a single phone sold in one day ever for Sprint.

ZTE Launches Commercial TD-LTE Base Stations

ZTE has announced that it has launched the industry’s first commercial TD-LTE base stations: BBU- B8300 and RRU- R8962. 

Ericsson & ComReg conduct TD-LTE trial in Ireland

Ireland’s Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) has confirmed that Ericsson, using a test licence issued by ComReg, has done successful LTE trails in Ireland. 

LTE to be only 11% of installed base stations by the end of 2015

By the end of 2010 while up to 20 LTE networks are expected to be live, but LTE will only make up 11% of installed base stations by the end…

BWA Auction Update Day 11: Pan-India Bid Crosses $2B

At 11th day of the auction the Pan-India bidding price has reportedly crossed Rs 98.37 billion (US$2.0 billion).

picoChip 3G femtocell to support up to 400 smartphones

picoChip announced that it has enhanced its picoXcellâ„¢ platform to address the need to support large numbers of smartphones on a femtocell.

Huawei Recognized BY CDG For Network Technology Innovation

Huawei has won the 2010 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Award for Network Technology Innovation presented by the CDMA Development Group (CDG) at the second annual CDMA World Forum in Shanghai.