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According to a recent annual report by Open Vista, Ericsson and Huawei are top LTE vendors.

Etisalat and Huawei have announced the signing of a commercial LTE contract to commence deployment of the LTE network in the UAE. Mr.

Picochip has announced that its picoArray(tm) technology has been selected to implement LTE and other wireless processing in Airspan’s new multi-standard ‘small cell’ b

The E-Plus Group will launch a TD-LTE field trial in Germany in Q1 2011. The trial is based on 2.6 GHz spectrum that E-Plus acquired in the German spectrum auction.

Etisalat has inked an agreement with Alcatel-Lucent for a planned deployment of the LTE network in the UAE.

Telstra plans to upgrade its Next G network with 4G LTE technology later this year.

Qualcomm has announced its next mobile processor architecture for the Snapdragon family.

RIM has announced plans to launch two additional BlackBerry 4G PlayBook tablets during the second half of 2011, featuring support for LTE and HSPA+ high speed wide area

Manufacturers of user devices are responding positively to this trend and a robust support ecosystem for LTE is rapidly establishing.

Verizon Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone has confirmed that the company’s technologists placed a live, IMS-based VoLTE (Voice over LTE) call over its commercial net

Nokia Siemens Networks has demonstrated LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation on the company’s Flexi Multiradio Base Station. 

Last week Picochip held public demonstration of a commercial LTE femtocell eNodeB basestation working with terminals.

NTT DOCOMO has been pre-licensed by the Kanto Bureau of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications for field experiments of LTE-Advanced,

Australia’s wireless broadband provider, vividwireless, has announced the results of TD-LTE Trial with Huawei .

Nokia Siemens Networks is introducing Single RAN Advanced, an evolution of its Single RAN solution to support four radio technologies with the same equipment.

Canadian wireless carrier WIND Mobile has announced successful 4G live trial and introduction of High Definition Voice Calling (HD Voice) to the North American marketpl

The Femto Forum has successfully completed its second plugfest which focused on femtocell management. The series of plugfests aim to cultivate an effective ecosystem of standardised femtocells.

Ubiquisys and the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) are working together to develop open source product-oriented LTE network simulator.

Huawei has announced a successful trial of LTE with Optimus. The trial achieved downlink speeds of 150 Mbps per user, and uplink speed of 60 Mbps. 

Qualcomm’s MDM9200 LTE/3G multi-mode chipset solution is being used by NTT DOCOMO for Japan’s first LTE service Xi.

UK operator Telefónica O2 to has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to modernize its radio network, expanding capacity, coverage and performance.

Wholesale wireless broadband and satellite network provider, LightSquared has delivered notice to Inmarsat for the triggering of Phase 2 the Cooperation Agreement betw

ZTE has formed a partnership with ChinaTel to promote the process of broadband access solutions and services worldwide.

Ubiquisys has announced a personal femtocell – attocell.

The Federal Communications Commission has adopted LTE for nationwide interoperable Public Safety Networks.

SK Telecom has selected Samsung Electronics, LG-Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks as key equipment suppliers for its 4G LTE network.

MetroPCS has expanded its LTE service into the Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami and Orlando metropolitan areas.

UAE’s  telecommunications operator du is in the process of choosing the provider of its next-generation LTE network by the end of the first quarter, says the head

NTT DOCOMO has established a broad-based business tie-up with China’s largest mobile operator, China Mobile Communication Corporation, and leading South Korean telecom

NEC has teamed with Chinese vendor Wuhan Research Institute of Post and Telecommunications (WRI) to collaborate in the development, manufacturing, sales and field suppo