African telco expects to invest nearly $100M this year
African telecommunications operator Smile Communications expects to launch commercial LTE services in the Democratic Republic of Congo in January, the company’s COO Tom Allen told RCR Wireless News.
Allen said the LTE network will be initially available...
The carrier targeted customers with unlimited data plans, ended practice in June
Much was made of Verizon Wireless' plan (which wasn't put into practice) to throttle data speeds for 4G LTE customers with unlimited data plans. Perhaps not as widely publicized is Verizon Wireless' practice...
LTE stations accounted for over 50% of deployments
Russian mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems said it has deployed more than 9,160 base stations across the country, compared to 5,730 base stations installed during the same period last year.
The Russian telco said that approximately 53% of the base...
The telco aims to expand the new technology to other cities in Denmark this year
Danish mobile telephony operator TeliaSonera kicked off a test of LTE-Advanced technology in the country's capital of Copenhagen. The telco plans to expand the LTE-A trial to other cities across...
India will end 2015 with 5.8M LTE subscribers
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has launched its 4G LTE services in 296 towns and cities across India. Bharti Airtel had initially launched India's first 4G LTE network in Kolkata in April 2012, through spectrum in the 2300...
China Mobile LTEÂ expansion set to cover 60% of China's population and 100M 4G LTE subscribers
As China Mobile, the largest mobile carrier in the world, continues to expand its network, Ericsson has signed on as the radio equipment provider for a 14-province expansion of LTE...
Orange and SFR encouraged to cede part of the spectrum to rival operator Free Mobile
France’s telecom regulator Arcep authorized mobile operators Orange and SFR to reuse their 1800 MHz spectrum bands for the provision of LTE services beginning next year. The regulator said that...
Includes unlimited talk and text, plus 1 GB of free data, in Canada, Mexico and a dozen Latin American countries
An official reveal of the plan is expected on Aug. 7, but that didn’t stop one Reddit user from posting details of Sprint’s upcoming Open...
The operator paid almost $25M for spectrum in both 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands
Mobile operator Ooredoo has acquired additional 4G LTE spectrum in Oman in a move to boost 4G coverage across the Sultanate. The telco paid OMR 9.6 million ($24.9 million) for...
Telefónica Spanish business showing signs of recovery
Spanish telecom giant Telefónica reported revenue of 11.87 billion euro ($13.14 billion) in the second quarter of 2015, climbing 12.4% vs. the year-ago quarter. The company's net profits for the period reached 1.89 million euro, an increase of...
The telco’s LTE trial currently reaches 28% of local population
Telekom Austria’s Bulgarian subsidiary Mobiltel has acquired fixed-line operator Blizoo Bulgaria.
Blizoo Bulgaria is the second-largest fixed-line operator in the country with an 8% share in the fixed broadband market and an 11% share in the...
NTT DoCoMo Premium 4G service reaches 292 cities across Japan
Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo’s Premium 4G service is currently available in 292 cities and 41 prefectures across Japan, according to a company presentation. The service, which was launched in March, offers download speeds of...
The telco aims for LTE coverage to reach 90% of European population by end of fiscal 2015
U.K.-based telecom operator Vodafone has modernized 80,000 mobile sites and added a further 36,000 2G, 47,000 3G and 41,000 4G sites, and upgraded 71,000 sites to high-capacity backhaul...
The APAC region currently has half of the world’s mobile connections
SHANGHAI – The Asia-Pacific mobile industry contributes more than $1 trillion per year to the area economy, mainly due to the increasing penetration of mobile broadband and smartphones, according to a GSMA report.
The report...
Japanese mobile operator plans to use equipment from multiple vendors
SHANGHAI – Japanese mobile operator SoftBank expects to carry out a technical trial of "TDD+" in Tokyo by the end of this year, the company’s senior director for wireless city planning, Hidebumi Kitahara, said at...
Vodafone has deployed Radio Dot system at its offices in London
Vodafone is trialing the Ericsson Radio Dot small cell system inside its London offices representing a first-of-its-kind trial in the United Kingdom.
According to reports, the ideal is to trial the Ericsson small cell solution...
The new offering will enable the telco to improve quality of mobile service in the two markets
U.K.-based mobile operator Vodafone announced plans to deploy voice-over-LTE technology in Italy and Spain this month. The company said the technology will improve the quality of its mobile...
China Telecom expects its FDD-LTE technology to cover 95% of China’s population by year end
Chinese mobile telephony operator China Telecom aims to provide LTE coverage to 95% of the country's population by the end of the year, according to local press reports. To achieve...
Latin American mobile network operators spending big on 4G LTE rollouts
In support of the expansion of 4G LTE in Latin America, U.S.-based Ceragon Networks is working with a tier one operator to upgrade 3G backhaul networks to support 4G LTE.
Ceragon did not name the...
The Indian telco currently offers 3G in almost 10,000 towns and cities; 4G LTE also expanding
Indian telecommunications operator Bharti Airtel plans to invest $1 billion during fiscal year 2015, ending March 2016, to expand its 3G network infrastructure and coverage across the country, according...
Telco aims to launch LTE services in the Democratic Republic of Congo in late 2015
African telecommunications operator Smile Communications has signed an agreement with Swedish infrastructure provider Ericsson that will see the European company provide 4G LTE managed services across all Smile's operations in...
The operator aims to invest $400M in the next two to three years
South East Asia Telecom has partnered with Chinese infrastructure provider ZTE to deploy a FDD-LTE network in Cambodia.
Under the terms of the agreement, ZTE will be the exclusive provider of end-to-end 4G solutions and products, including...
Remaining three CDMA markets served by MetroPCS were decommissioned on June 21
T-Mobile US on Sunday shut down the legacy CDMA network that supported subsidiary MetroPCS; 190,000 MetroPCS customers were still using the network in three major metro markets, according to reports.
The remaining MetroPCS customers...
IDC estimates 5.8M 4G LTE subscribers in India by year-end 2015
Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio Infocomm expects to launch commercial 4G LTE services across India by December, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani said during the company's annual shareholders meeting.
Ambani said that the company expects to...
