MegaFon and Rostelecom have successfully tested their Fourth Generation LTE network close to the major Sochi 2014 site, Roza Khutor.

MetroPCS has reported more than three times increase in second-quarter earnings also company saw record subscriber additions.Net income rose to $80 million from $26 million a year earlier.

Clearwire has announced plans to test Test both FDD LTE and TDD LTE in US. In addition Clearwire  will test multiple coexistence scenarios between LTE and WiMAX as well.

Russian operator Rostelecom plans to launch the LTE test network in Penza by the end of August.

Harris Corporation, a communications and information technology company, has launched Harris VIDA Broadband LTE, its new solution for broadband mission-critical communications for first responders.

Japanese mobile-phone operator NTT DoCoMo will pay $111.6 million to buy the rest of shares of wireless software company PacketVideo.

Intomobile reports that this year Atlanta and Athens, GA will go live with Verizon’s LTE network along with Dallas, Denton, Fort Worth and Weatherford, TX.

Russian regulator Roskomnadzor has revoked permission to use some of the frequencies issued to Scartel (brand Yota) to build LTE network reportedly due to violation of the law, according to…

AT&T has chosen Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, and Juniper Networks as its Domain Suppliers for IP/MPLS/Ethernet/Evolved Packet Core equipment needed for its IP-based network.  

picoChip has been selected by Rancore Technologies Ltd for the development of 4G base stations for rolling out next-generation wireless telecom networks in India.

Samsung SCH-r900 with LTE capabilities in 1700 / 1900 radio bands has been approved by FCC. The phone will be launched by MetroPCS.

Qualcomm has sold 26 per cent stake in its TD-LTE venture in India to Tulip Telecom and Global Holdings.

Earlier this month FCC had approved a new LTE USB modem from LG. Now BGR has released images of this modem.

Telefonica O2 Germany plans to launch two urban LTE networks in Munich and Halle by the end of 2010. Company is using 2.6 GHz spectrum in these areas.

Public Safety Agencies have selected Motorola to build 700 MHz LTE Network in San Francisco Bay Area.

Mobile operator GSM Kazakhstan/Kcell has announced installation of LTE base station for demonstration. 

NTT DOCOMO has announced the brand name and logo of its forthcoming LTE service for the Japanese market, which is scheduled to launch in December.

The open source mobile cloud sync company, Funambol has introduced Funambol DM Carrier Edition, a commercial open source device management solution for WiMAX. 

Mobile service provider Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) with services in Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) has announced the commercial launch of a 4G LTE network in Uzbekistan.

UK government has laid a statutory instrument (SI) before parliament requiring telecoms regulator Ofcom to launch a combined auction of frequencies in the 800MHz and 2100MHz band as soon as…

Altair Semiconductor has commercialy launched a new TD-LTE terminal reference design for use in a range of products, including USB dongles, data cards, CPEs and handheld devices. 

Alcatel-Lucent claims to host first LTE & LAN Party at their campus in Stuttgart, Germany, on July 17th and 18th.

South Korea’s KT Corp plans to spend 5.1 trillion won (4.3 billion dollars) over five years upgrading its network to meet demand from smartphones and other digital devices.

NTT DOCOMO & Taiwanese chip-maker MediaTek has entered into a LTE-PF,  a mobile-terminal platform based on LTE, licensing agreement with NTT DOCOMO.

An analyst at Frost & Sullivan has claimed that Research In Motion (RIM) is working on 4G BlackBerry ‘Triton’  and it will be launched in December

America Movil plans to launch 4G mobile services (LTE likely) in Mexico with recently acquired wireless spectrum earlier this month.

After acquiring majority of Motorola’s wireless network infrastructure assets for US $1.2 billion, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is said to be terminating a joint venture of TD-LTE development with

This week Ericsson declared second quarter 2010 financial results showing increase in operating expenses.

T-Mobile, USA is offering HSPA+ services in almost 50 major metropolitan areas now (claiming 4G speeds) and its first HSPA+ smartphone is planned for this summer (rumored Android device from…

Telstra’s subsidiary, Hong Kong’s mobile network operator CSL and ZTE plan to deploy commercial 1800 MHz/2600 MHz dual-band LTE network.