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North America Adds 19M LTE Subscriptions in 12 Months

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Global LTE Connections - Q3 2012

LTE subscriptions in North America has soared to 22.3 million, a increase of almost 19 million in 12 months at the end of the 3Q 2012. This represents 51 percent of all 43.7 million LTE connections worldwide, reports 4G Americas. 128 commercial LTE networks have been launched in 58 countries to date.

GSA: Over 250 LTE Commercial Networks Worldwide

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251 commercial LTE networks

GSA, the Global mobile Suppliers Association, has announced that 251 LTE networks in 93 countries are now commercially launched. The number of countries with LTE service has grown 45% this year. 

With 72 commercial LTE networks so far, LTE set to enter mainstream in 2012

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GSA LTE Update May 2012

GSA has confirmed that 72 LTE operators have launched commercial LTE services, including 25 networks launched so far in 2012. Commercial LTE services are now available today in 37 countries.

Small Cell Forum: Public Access Small Cells Could Quickly Carry More Traffic than Macros

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Small Cell Forum

The Small Cell Forum says that public access small cells could play a key role in providing additional mobile coverage, capacity and new services in both urban and rural areas.

ZTE To Unveil Two Android LTE Phones At MWC

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ZTE PF200

China's ZTE has announced two new LTE handsets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich with 1.2GHz and 1.5GHz chipsets. Company plans to showcase them at the forthcoming Mobile World Congress telecoms industry show in Barcelona.

How Operators Can Compensate For Falling Roaming Rates

in Blog, OpenCloud, 4G, LTE

Competition is fierce as operators look to sign up consumers to their new superfast 4G networks and make a return on their spectrum auction investment. A reason for this is that operators aren’t offering consumers anything beyond commodity services, such as 4G roaming bundles.

German Spectrum Auction Day 23: Bids Reach EUR3.25 Billion

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German mobile spectrum auction bids totaled EUR3.25 billion on day 23. It is up from EUR3.19 billion the day before.

Use SON for LTE Success ?

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Recently I read alot about SON in various blogs.

IHS iSuppli: new iPad costs more to produce than iPad 2

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iPad 3

According to IHS iSuppli, the new iPad is more expensive to produce than the iPad 2 at the time of product launch, even though the retail price points are the same. The 32GB LTE model’s bill of materials (BOM) is nearly 9 percent higher than an iPad 2 equipped with 32GB and 3G wireless, which carried a cost of approximately $335 at the time of product launch.

LTE flat rate or pay for what you use

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Speaking at the LTE World Summit in Amsterdam Ken Wirth, president LTE and 4G networks at Alcatel-Lucent, warned that Services and applications need to be launched in conjunction with LTE infrastru

Sprint Announces HD Voice-capable The HTC EVO 4G LTE

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HTC

Sprint has announced the next evolution of the HTC EVO family: HTC EVO 4G LTE. It will be available in the second quarter for $199.99. The availability date will be announced later.

Alvarion to offer TD-LTE support

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Alvarion one of the global leader in the WiMax market, with most extensive customer base with hundreds of commercial WiMAX deployments, has stated that it will add support for TD-Long Term Evolutio