Ericsson has completed the acquisition of Nortel’s majority shareholding in LG-Nortel, the joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel Networks.

Another interesting story from BoyGeniusReport, BGR reports that Verizon Wireless will begin rolling out its LTE network starting on November 15th this year. 

From 30th June, TeliaSonera is offering Samsung’s modem that works with 2G, 3G and 4G LTE networks. Modem is available for sales in Telia stores in central Stockholm and Visby. 

Mobilkom & Telekom Austria have conducted a live LTE demonstration on the A1 network.

Japanese operator NTT Docomo will lease access to its new high-speed mobile LTE network to companies when it begins operation in December, Nikkei reported.

In a surprise move, Alcatel-Lucent has acquired ProgrammableWeb, terms of the acquisition has not been disclosed.

Verizon Wireless has announced the support for President Obama’s Spectrum Effort.

For LTE, Rumors do not seems to die, Initially it has been about iPhone & Android but now BlackBerry Storm 3 has got every ones attention.

Canadian cable operator Shaw Communications has selected Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to provide the radio access network and core equipment for Shaw’s next generation wireless network. 

NEC has launched  a ultra-high capacity backhaul solution “ePASOLINK”.

Recently awarded 3G and Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) licences in India will help accelerate the much-needed deployment of Mobile Broadband networks and services across the country, however addit

Earlier this week TeliaSonera opened LTE network in Malmo & Gothenburg, Sweden.

Malaysian mobile communications service provider Maxis Berhad has successfuly conducted the 4G LTE trial and has demonstrated dowload speeds of up to 104 Mbps.

GSMA recently hosted joint Latin America and North America Conference in Miami, USA. Key activities included a 3GPP Seminar aimed at the Latin American Operator community

Ericsson has demonstrated LTE with a speed of 100 Mbps alongwith Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call  at their local offices in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Australian Government has decided to release 126 Megahertz of broadcasting spectrum as a digital dividend.This spectrum will become available as a result of the switch to digital-only television br

Polish telecom regulator Office of Electronic Communications (UKE), intends to launch a tender for LTE radio spectrums this year. 

ZTE and UAE-based operator Etisalat have completed LTE Trials. The project was conducted in the Etisalat headquarters in Abu Dhabi’s according to c114.net.

TeliaSonera is preparing for commercial launch of 4G/LTE in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city soon.

Alcatel-Lucent is demonstrating the LTE Connected Car concept in the ‘Experience Canada’ pavilion at the International Media Center for the G-8 and G-20 Summits during June 23 – 25, 2010. 

NTT DoCoMo plans to launch commercial LTE femtocells between 2011 and 2012.

AT&T and Verizon have joined Wireless Broadband Alliance (“WBA”), a group dedicated to global Wireless Broadband roaming for public Wi-Fi networks.

India’s GSM service provider Aircel has indicated that it may choose WiMAX or TD-LTE for 2.3GHz spectrum deployments or it can roll out both. 

Verizon Wireless is moving to “friendly user trials” of LTE in five unnamed cities.

Ericsson has planned to demonstrate LTE with a speed of 150 Mbps and HSPA Evolution with up to 84 Mbps at their local offices in Johannesburg, South Africa from 21 June…

Australia’s Telstra has signed non-binding deal valued at $11 billion  with NBN Co, in this deal Telstra has agreed to migrate its copper and cable broadband networks to Government-owned NBN…

Baseband modem integration into mobile devices will reach 2 billion by 2014 despite market and technical hurdles, according to a recent report by In-Stat. 

Alcatel-Lucent has decided to shift the focus of its R&D unit in Chennai, India from WiMAX to LTE, according to Mr Vivek Mohan, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s global services business and…

Verizon Wireless may not offer unlimited data plans for LTE services, instead it can switch to tiered pricing, according to chief financial officer of Verizon Communications Inc., John Killian.

Cognovo has launced Software Defined Modem (SDM) platform designed to significantly reduce cost, size and design complexity for developers of cellular handsets and other wireless enabled consumer e