April 27, 2010 - Sony Corporation of America and IPWireless today announced that the two companies have signed an agreement to jointly research and develop wireless technologies for 4G and beyond.

Verizon Wireless plans to add two Motorola Android smartphones in July, reports Wall Street Journal.

Ericsson, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, and SK Telecom plan to conduct interoperability testing and over-the-air field trials based on 5G New Radio (NR) standards being developed based on specifications in 3GPP.

TeliaSonera's 4G LTE services are now available in 161 cities around Sweden. Last week, Telia opened 4G network in eight new locations.

Qatar Telecom (Qtel) has announced the launch of a new LTE program to deliver 4G network in Qatar.

Telecom New Zealand will begin 4G LTE trial in parts of Wellington and Auckland from Friday this week. The Auckland trial will take place in parts of the North Shore on the 2600MHz spectrum and will be conducted by Huawei. Alcatel-Lucent will run the trial in the Lower Hutt area of Wellington, also on the 2600MHz spectrum.

WiMAX Service Provider Worldmax has now decided to close down its network per August 1st 2010. Worldmax had deployed a  Metropolitan WiMAX 16e network in 2009 under th