ZTE has announced that it completed the download test using carrier aggregation (CA) technology in a commercial environment in collaboration with Guangdong arm of China Mobile. The test took place in an outdoor TD-LTE network environment. 

Mobile service provider China Mobile transmitted a live video stream of the Xiamen International Marathon to TV centers of China Central TV and Xiamen TV for live broadcasting on its TD-LTE network earlier this month on January 5.

Sri Lanka’s telecom service provider, Dialog Broadband Networks (DBN) has launched Commercial 4G Services with TD-LTE technology in the city of Colombo. DBN is the fixed telecommunication Services arm of the Dialog Axiata Group. 

ZTE helped China Mobile Hong Kong (CMHK) to launch the commercial converged TD-LTE / FDD LTE network in Hong Kong. Ericsson was also a solution provider on the new China Mobile Hong Kong network.

China Mobile has launched TD-LTE trial network central and western regions, reports chinadaily. The TD-LTE trial network is based in Sichuan. 

Huawei has announced that it enabled circuit switch fall back (CSFB) voice call between a LTE TDD compatible network and a UMTS network. This CSFB voice call was made through Huawei's STREAM 201HW smartphone, now available through SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp in Japan.

U.S. broadband service provider, Clearwire has revised its LTE deployment plan. Company now plans to have 2,000 LTE sites on air by the end of June 2013 and expects to start receiving Sprint prepayment installments in June 2013.

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced that China Mobile has selected the company for the deployment of TD-LTE in three cities by the end of 2012. The deployment is part of China Mobile’s large-scale pre-commercial trial of its TD-LTE network.