Worldwide LTE network connections will pass 100 million this week, according to estimates by 4G Americas and Informa Telecoms and Media, with about 57 million of those coming from the United States and Canada.
4G Americas reported that there are now 172 operators in 70...
Terry McCabe, CTO of Mavenir Systems, says there are many bumps on the road to actually offering valuable services to subscribers over LTE. He also cautions that LTE networks can create opportunities for "over-the-top" competitors to offer new services to consumers if operators are...
Siemens Enterprise Communications, a premier provider of enterprise communications, has been appointed by Durham University as its strategic technology partner to implement a next generation communications system as part of a university-wide investment program to deliver world-class facilities for its 15,000 students and 3,000...
Cisco | August 15, 2011 | Press Release
SAN JOSE, Calif., August 15, 2011 – Cisco today announced that Scandinavian mobile operator 3, a division of Hutchison 3G, is deploying Cisco® ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers to deliver 4G and Long Term Evolution (LTE)...
Vodafone | July 29, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone Spain has been awarded a total of 60 MHz (2x30 MHz) of new spectrum in the Spanish government’s auction, enabling the Company to provide its customers with enhanced mobile internet services across the country, including in...
AsiaOne | June 21, 2011 |Â Kenny Chee
SINGAPOREANS can now enjoy faster online speeds on the go with fourth-generation (4G) mobile networks as compared to existing 3G networks.
M1 is the first Singapore telco to provide 4G services from today. It said in...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Despite having previously been late adopters of new mobile technologies, the United States has taken the lead...
TeleGeography | June 10, 2011
China’s Huawei Technologies has been awarded a contract to roll out 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network infrastructure for Hong Kong cellcos Hutchison (3) and PCCW via their 50/50 joint venture Genius Brand. Huawei revealed yesterday that the contract includes a turnkey...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Fourth-generation wireless mobile broadband technologies such as Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) and Long Term Evolution...
AT&T Mobility (T) plans to bring Long Term Evolution technology to its first five markets this summer. CTO John Donovan said Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and San Antonio would be first up for the carrier's new LTE network. All but Atlanta are in the...
TeleGeography | May 17, 2011
Hong Kong cellco CSL, which launched a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network for selected corporate users in November 2010, yesterday made its 4G mobile broadband services available to existing consumer subscribers to its high-end 1010 brand, though new customers will not...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week: Alcatel-Lucent Fiji: With the government of Fiji to unveil its government data center which marks the completion of its e-Government phase one project acquired from Alcatel-Lucent, resulting in increased efficiency that is reducing costs and...
Huawei | May 13, 2011 | Press Release
: M1 Limited (M1) - Singapore’s leading mobile, broadband and fixed communications service provider, today announces the deployment of South East Asia’s first commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Singapore.
LTE is capable of delivering downlink speed...
LTE is gaining momentum fast, according to a recent report by ABI Research, which claims there will be 16 million mobile LTE subscribers by the end of this year.LTE networks are currently running in a dozen countries, and as of March, 100 LTE-ready devices...
Smart Communications | April 16, 2011 | Press Release
- Cellular leader Smart Communications has introduced to the country what company officials describe as the world’s fastest mobile broadband technology.
Called Long Term Evolution (LTE), this is the latest stage in the development of mobile...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Mobile World Congress 2011 represented the debut for voice over long term evolution (VoLTE) technology among leading...
Business Times | April 8, 2011
PACKET One Networks Malaysia Sdn Bhd (P1), Malaysia’s leading fourth generation (4G) broadband provider, hopes to introduce the LTE (long-term evolution) technology in Malaysia by next year.
Its chief executive officer, Michael Lai, said P1 has submitted a detailed business...
The Nation | April 4, 2011 | Â Usanee Mongkolporn
Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo is interested in testing 4G wireless broadband technology in Thailand, said Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, chairman of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC).
He added that the company had expressed its interest to him.
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Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.The terrible human tragedy arising from the massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan could have been...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.I was sitting at my desk on Sunday, Mar. 20, working on my upcoming Wireless...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.I was sitting at my desk on Sunday, Mar. 20, working on my upcoming Wireless...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.I was sitting at my desk on Sunday, Mar. 20, working on my upcoming Wireless...
