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4G speed record smashed with 1.4 Gigabits-per-second mobile call #MWC12

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Nokia Siemens Networks

Arlington Heights, Illinois – February 27, 2012: Nokia Siemens Networks boosts data rate for LTE-Advanced on 100 MHz spectrum, using commercial Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station

Airspan Introduces LTE-Advanced Product Family at Mobile World Congress 2012

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Airspan

Barcelona, Spain, Mobile World Congress, February 27, 2012 – Airspan Networks Inc., a leading provider of 4G broadband wireless access networks, introduced today their newest LTE-Advanced product family to help carriers address the explosive growth in mobile broadband demand.

Huawei Announces World's First LTE-A Inter-Band Carrier Aggregation Solution

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Barcelona, Spain February 27, 2012: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced the launch of world's first LTE-A (LTE-Advanced) inter-band carrier aggregation (CA) solution at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona.

LTE LABT - a complete suite including link-level and system-level LTE/LTE-A simulators for Matlab

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Warsaw, Poland – 27 February, 2012. IS-Wireless, a Warsaw-based LTE/LTE-Advanced IPR provider, complements a well-established link-level simulator LTE PHY Lab, with the newly developed system-level simulator LTE MAC Lab.

ZTE Debuts LTE-A Inter-Band Dual-Carrier Commercial Base Station at MWC

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27 February 2012, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today debuted its LTE-A Inter-band Dual-Carrier commercial base station at the Mobile World Congress 2012 (MWC 2012) in Barcelona, Spain.
 

ITU Calls for Quick Deployment of IMT-Advanced Networks

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Dr Hamadoun Touré, ITU Secretary General

ITU wants mobile operators worldwide to quickly deploy IMT-Advanced based mobile broadband network. In addition it is also urging governments to slash or even abolish onerous taxes on ICT equipment and services that could stifle the future growth of the mobile sector.

Tensilica Lays the Foundation for Software Programmable LTE-Advanced User Equipment PHY (Layer 1) in Less than 200mW

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Santa Clara, CA - February 21, 2012 - After great success in the LTE (Long-Term Evolution) handset baseband market, Tensilica, Inc. today announced that it is driving the transition to LTE-Advanced and has already secured lead customers for its new product - the ConnX BBE32UE DSP (digital signal processor) IP core for baseband SOC (system-on-chip) designs.

RAN priorities during beyond Release 11

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An interview with Takehiro Nakamura, 3GPPi RAN Chairman, filmed December 2011.

-RAN priorities during early Release 11 work
-Workshop on Rel-12 and beyond, to Identify key requirements
-How does LTEi-Advanced change things ?

Spirent Selected to Test LTE-Advanced and TD-LTE in Asia

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Spirent

Sunnyvale, Calif.– February 14, 2012 — Spirent Communications, a leader in testing wireless networks, services and devices, today announced that several leading companies and government research organizations in the Asia Pacific region are using the Spirent VR5 HD Spatial Channel Emulator to test implementations of advanced MIMO beamforming.

3GPP Release 10 and Beyond - HSPA+, SAE/LTE and LTE-Advanced - Update

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This 4G Americas document is an updated version of the February 2011 white paper and includes a new Appendix A: Detailed Member Progress and Plans on Release 99 through Release 10 and updated deployment and subscriber information.

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IMT-Advanced Specifications Agreed at ITU Radio Assembly

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Specifications for next-generation mobile technologies – IMT-Advanced – have been agreed at the ITU Radiocommunication Assembly currently meeting in Geneva.

Tech Talk: LTE-Advanced (LTE release 10)

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Mikael Höök from Ericsson Research discusses the release of LTEi-Advanced (LTE release 10).

NTT DOCOMO to set up joint venture for LTE products

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NTT DOCOMO has reached a basic agreement with five companies to establish a fabless joint venture company by the end of March 2012 to develop and sell semiconductor pro

The Race To Deploy LTE-Advanced Networks

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Dec 9, 2011 - Now that the top three major networks in the United States carry the iPhone, the race to deploy full

Clearwire, Sprint Sign WiMAX, LTE Agreements

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Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have announced a deal that could give Clearwire up to $1.6 billion over the next four years in payments for WiMAX services, possible pre-pay