Australia’s Telstra & Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) have achieved a peak download speed of 100Mbps and upload speed of 31Mbps over a 75km distance using LTE technology. 

According to a new report from Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) delays in the commercial launch of LTE will place increasing pressure on capacity and increase costs as operat

TeliaSonera has extensive LTE coverage planned throughout the year. A total of 25 locations in Sweden  to be expanded with 4G over the year.

TeliaSonera is ready to launch 4G LTE in Visby, Sweden on June 30 . It would become the third city in the world with commercial 4G network. 

Vodacom has launched its live LTE trial network in Midrand, first in Africa. Vodacom has fully integrated its LTE network with its current 3G/HSDPA network and uses the same spectrum.

Nokia Siemens Networks has integrated its microwave backhaul system with cell site and aggregation routers from Cisco to boost mobile backhaul capacity.

LTE-Advanced and IEEE 802.16m WiMAX have cleared the ITU 4G standard requirements, according to Korea Communications Commission.

This Qualcomm webinar was presented last month, it examines LTE Advanced and provides a high-level view into how it helps operators make the next performance leap. 

Motorola is now offering WiMAX Evolution solution for operators to upgrade existing WiMAX 802.16e / 802.16e Enhanced networks to 802.16m or TD-LTE or to add LTE to their existing WiMAX…

Philippines service provider Globe Telecom has started testing the Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in collaboration with parent SingTel. 

Verizon Wireless says that by 2013 the LTE coverage map will match it’s current 3G coverage map.

Verizon Wireless has selected CETECOM as a laboratory to test devices for operation on the nationwide 4G LTE network that Verizon Wireless is building on the Upper 700 MHz C-Block…

Nokia Siemens Networks has launched its SON (Self Organizing Networks) offering for LTE at CommunicAsia 2010 in Singapore. The offering is part of the Nokia Siemens Networks SON suite. 

NetLogic Microsystems has announced that its families of multi-core, multi-threaded processors have been designed into multiple equipment, from eNodeB base stations to Gateways, that are deployed i

Alcatel-Lucent  expects return to growth in Asia, according to Rajeev Singh-Molares, president of Alcatel-Lucent’s Asia-Pacific operations, reports The Wall Street Journal.

picoChip has announced that it has sold one million chips and is on track to achieve over 50% quarter-on-quarter sequential revenue growth this calendar quarter. 

Ericsson expects to hold 25 percent of all essential patents for LTE, making it the largest patent holder in the industry, according to company website. 

South African regulator ICASA (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa)  has extended the closing date for submissions of applications for spectrum in the 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz band

The main targets for 3GPP LTE evolution are increased data rates, improved spectrum efficiency, improved coverage, reduced latency and packet-optimized system that support multiple Radio Access Tec

Bahrain operator Batelco and Ericsson have inked a contract to enhance its mobile network.

After winning 4 circles in India’s BWA auction, Qualcomm is looking for 3G partners to deploy LTE.

The compact base station market opportunity for 3G/4G networks is expected to reach $13 billion by 2015 with initial deployments being set up in the 2011-12 timeframe, according to a…

Rubberduck Media Lab has confimed that it had been engaged in trials with Entel PCS in Chile for high speed mobile TV over LTE tests. 

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has announced today the acquisition  of Infotel Broadband Services (P) Ltd, which has emerged as a successful bidder in all the 22 circles of the auction…

UE class determines the speed at which data can be transferred in uplink and downlink directions. For GPRS & UMTS, most of us already are aware of it.

The MSF (MultiService Forum) has announced completion of the global Evolved Packet Core (EPC) interoperability event.

With the auction of BWA spectrum concluding today after 117 rounds over 16 days, the government is set to gain $8.6 billion.

Italian telecom operator Wind has selected Huawei for development of HSPA+, LTE mobile networks, core network and fibre optics for ultra-wideband.

Zinwave has announced that its True Wideband active Distributed Antenna System (DAS) solution is the first on the market to receive Long Term Evolution (LTE) certification across the full 700…

Taiwanese regulator National Communications Commission (NCC) has given postive signals to allow WiMAX opertaors to upgrade LTE using allocated spectrum.