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There are 300 commercial LTE networks now in 107 countries and 350 commercial LTE networks are anticipated by the end of 2014, reports 4G Americas. Additionally, LTE-Advanced is now commercially…

ZTE has completed a successful demonstration of the 40 MHz uplink Carrier Aggregation (CA) over a TD-LTE network, in partnership with Marvell Technology Group.

Qualcomm has introduced the Qualcomm FSM90xx system-on-chip (SoC) for neighborhood and small and medium business (SMB) small cells. The FSM90xx has been designed and optimized to meet the cost targets…

Real-world deployments, applications and advanced planning and analytics took centre stage at last night’s Small Cell Forum Awards 2014. The Small Cell Forum awards, which take place annually as part…

Nokia and SK Telecom have reached a throughput speed of 3.78 Gbps by aggregating 10 spectrum frequencies allocated for both LTE variants for a 200 MHz of bandwidth. Earlier Nokia…

Swisscom is now offering 4G LTE roaming in further ten countries. Nine of those countries are in Europe including Italy, Spain and Greece. In addition operator has also started LTE…

Wireless infrastructure solution provider Radisys and AirHop Communications, a developer of advanced RAN intelligence software, have integrated AirHop’s eSON software with Radisys’ Trillium LTE TOTALeNodeB solution and Broadcom Corporation’s BCM617xx…

Huawei and South Korea’s mobile operator LG Uplus have jointly completed a commercial network field trail of 3 different band Carrier Aggregation (3CC CA). LG Uplus currently has 7.5 million…

4G Americas reports that LTE connections in North America grew to 115 million subscriptions, representing 30 percent of the 387 million total mobile subscriptions in the region at the end…

Syniverse has signed an agreement with NewCore Wireless for solutions that will facilitate the launch of a new LTE network to serve NewCore Wireless’ operator customers. NewCore Wireless is a…

Ericsson has won a deal providing an integrated Policy and Charging solution to Taiwan Mobile. Taiwan Mobile is one of the largest operators in Taiwan, offering mobile, fixed line, cable…

Taiwan’s telecom service provider Chunghwa Telecom has launched commercial 4G LTE network in the country. Operator is currently offering over 30 LTE-compatible devices and plans to increase it to over…

Claro Peru has launched commercial LTE network in the country. Operator is using its existing 1,900 MHz band spectrum for the 4G service. Claro  did not acquire spectrum in the…

NTT DOCOMO announced that it has completed proof-of-concept (PoC) trials verifying the feasibility of network functions virtualization (NFV) while working separately with Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and NEC. The company has been…

Alcatel-Lucent and Mobily Saudi Arabia have announced the deployment of virtualized radio access network (RAN) software from Alcatel-Lucent’s Network Function Virtualization (NFV) portfolio launched during Mobile World Congress 2014.  

U.S. carrier T-Mobile has launched Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service in the Seattle area. Operator is initially offering VoLTE service over existing LG G Flex and Samsung Galaxy Note 3…

ZTE has announced that the company, as one of the main solution providers for Algérie Télécom’s FDD-LTE network, is responsible for the infrastructure in 14 provinces, including the capital city…

French mobile service provider Bouygues Telecom has chosen Ericsson to launch VoLTE services to its live, commercial 4G/LTE network in France. The service will provide HD (high definition) voice conversations…

Nokia has deployed commercial LTE network in Algeria for the state-owned operator, Algérie Télécom. Under the contract, Nokia provided its Single RAN Advanced solution based on its Flexi Multiradio 10…

Alcatel-Lucent and Telenor Group have signed a global frame agreement making Alcatel-Lucent a candidate provider for 4G LTE networks to the subsidiaries in 13 countries in Europe and Asia.

Singapore’s mobile operator SingTel has unveiled 4G ClearVoice, a commercial full-featured Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service, in collaboration with Samsung and Ericsson. Operator’s VoLTE service offers full suite of telephony…

Cable & Wireless Communications (trading as LIME) has completed the roll-out of its new 4G LTE network in Cayman Islands. The network was installed by Ericsson as sole supplier, covering…

Communications solutions provider Globecomm has announced that Adams NetWorks, Inc. (Adams) and Chariton Valley have commercially launched 4G LTE services to their customers leveraging Globecomm’s Hosted LTE solutions.

US carrier AT&T plans to introduce High Definition (HD) Voice on an all-IP, Voice Over LTE (VoLTE) network in select markets beginning May 23.  Initially, HD Voice from AT&T will…

Australian mobile operator Telstra has announced successful live demonstration of 450Mbps network speed using LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation across a trial combination of 1800MHz and 2600MHz bands.

Japanese mobile carrier NTT DOCOMO plans to launch high-quality voice and video calls using Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) technology on its LTE network, beginning late June.

Russia’s telecommunications operator MTS has completed the Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call on a telco cloud infrastructure using Nokia’s technology. The end-to-end testing was successfully conducted in the operator’s live…

China Mobile has fully tested and certified Ericsson’s M7450 5-mode modem chipset for use in China Mobile’s network. Ericsson’s M7450 covers five access technologies: TD-LTE, LTE FDD, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA and…

Kyrgyzstan’s mobile operator O! has launched LTE network in the country. According to operator, LTE service is available with data rates up to 75 Mbps in all areas of capital…

Japanese carrier NTT DOCOMO plans to conduct experimental trials of emerging 5G mobile communications technologies with six mobile technology vendors: Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia and Samsung.