Just a year and a half ago, smartphones were nearly absent from South Korea’s wireless market, but a smartphone boom hit the country last year following Korea&nbsp

Did you attend MWC and not stop by the Backhaul Pavilion? Don’t worry if you missed it, since there was no such place at the Barcelona event!

Verizon Wireless has expanded the LTE network to cover more than 80 percent of the population in the metropolitan Detroit area.

As covered in 4G Digest’s October 13th issue, IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses – the basis for Internet as we know it today – are quickly running out.

Over the last several years Alvarion has succeeded in establishing a strong position in the WiMAX space.

MetroPCS Communications has commercially launched LTE enabled Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Indulge.

Alcatel-Lucent has announced lightRadio, a new system to end the mobile industry’s reliance on masts and base stations.

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I have always considered wireless backhaul to be evolving at a much slower pace than other wireless technologies, such as those targeting the access network.

LTE progress has slowed down in Russia and it appears that comercial LTE will be available only in 2014-2015.

Wireless has now evolved to a more common and overlapping set of technologies and markets such that former distinctions between wireless and wired, streams of standards

Latin America is the quietest region in terms of LTE deployments and operator commitments.

China has become the largest consumer of mobile phones and, on a voice usage basis, the largest service market in the world.

CEO Philipp Humm’s management team at T-Mobile USA intends to bring about a decisive improvement in the company’s operations and gain market share with its challenger s

The second half of 2010 in India was abuzz with discussion of several possiblities for BWA licensees regarding whether to deploy TD-LTE, WiMAX, or a hybrid-type network

Verizon Wireless and Apple today announced that the iPhone® 4 will be available on the Verizon Wireless network beginning on Thursday, February 10, ending year long speculation of possible iPhone…

Verizon Wireless is expected to officially announce on Tuesday that it will start to sell the popular iPhone.

Verizon Wireless plans to continue launching 4G LTE markets over the next 36 months aggressively and will cover two-thirds of the U.S.

Verizon Wireless and Motorola Mobility have unveiled DROID BIONIC, a powerful new Android smartphone.

Last month VivaCell-MTS launched 4G/LTE commercial test network in Armenia with a live demo conducted in Yerevan.

Before we offer predictions for the coming year, it is worthwhile to take a look at how our forecasts for the current year have worked out.  

Working on LTE lines, T-Mobile USA and Nokia Siemens Networks are pushing for Long Term HSPA Evolution to achive speeds of more than 650 Mbps.

LTE iPhone is rumored to be launched on Verizon LTE/CDMA networks right after Christmas.

The irruption of data hungry devices such as smartphones and USB dongles is challenging most mobile operators to such an extent that their networks are getting congested at some sites.

To meet LTE-Advanced requirements, support of wider transmission bandwidths is required than the 20 MHz bandwidth specified in 3GPP Release 8/9.

Over the week of  November 22nd I had the opportunity to speak at the “WiMAX Forum Southeast Asia Regional Focus 2010” in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

After much industry speculation Verizon Wireless finally commercially launched its LTE network on December 5th, 2010.

MetroPCS plans to release a Android-based LTE smartphone in the first quarter of 2011. Last month MetroPCS launched It’s first Android smartphone LG Optimus M(TM).

Vodafone Germany is launching comercial LTE on December 1 and is offering LTE surf sticks to it’s customers. The new Samsung LTE data stick are available nationwid

In Saudi Arabia the number of broadband subscribers has grown 43-fold from 64,000 in 2005 to over 2.75 million at the end of 2009, according to data released by The…