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  • Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile have successfully completed the first call over a trial TD-LTE network deployed in the city of Shanghai, China.

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  • Orange France has started a LTE pilot in Marseille and plans to offer 4G in Lyon and Nantes by the end of the year. Operator will add 12 other cities by summer 2013. Orange will provide 4G equipments to 2,500 testers including Group employees and mass market and business customers to discover 4G services in Marseille, Lyon and Nantes.

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  • Slovak Telekom has launched a 4G LTE network in five cities in Slovakia, more locations will follow soon. According to Ericsson, it is the sole vendor for the LTE radio network, which is based on the multi-standard RBS 6000 base station. 

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  • Singapore's telecom service provider M1 has launched nationwide LTE-Advanced network, doubling download speeds for customers to up to 300Mbps. All existing and new mobile customers with devices that support the LTE-A technology will be able to access faster download speeds.

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  • Space Data Corporation and Lemko Corporation have announced the successful deployment of the a satellite-based commercial LTE network. The network was deployed in Atqasuk, Alaska and offers subscribers mobile broadband data speeds of over 70Mbps. LTE over satellite is enabled by Lemko's patented DiMoWiNe™ (Distributed Mobile Wireless Network) software solution.

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  • Philippines’ wireless services provider Smart Communications is launching commercial LTE services on August 25. The announcement comes after a year of LTE test deployments conducted by PLDT’s wireless subsidiary in various parts of the country.

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  • Qualcomm has introduced fifth generation Gobi embedded data connectivity reference platform for mobile devices. Based on Gobi LTE wireless baseband modems, the MDM9615 and MDM9215 support fast LTE connectivity on FDD and TDD networks with backwards compatibility to both HSPA+ and EV-DO networks.

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  • Two-thirds of the service providers intend to use WiMAX for mobility-based services by 2012 according to a Infonetics Research survey.

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  • At the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Nokia and AT&T have introduced Nokia Lumia 900, the first of Nokia's Windows Phone with LTE connectivity.

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  • Canada's Rogers Communications will introduce LTE in 44 markets this spring and intends to reach a total of 95 markets in 2013. Rogers will also be making its 2600 MHz LTE spectrum band available in all markets. Among the 44 LTE markets launching this spring will be Saint John, New Brunswick; Medicine Hat, Alberta; Sault Ste.

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  • Vodafone New Zealand has signed more than 300,000 Kiwis onto its 4G-enabled plans since launching LTE service one year ago today. Operator reports 177% increase in 4G customers over the last six months and significant growth in 4G prepay base, over 30,000 since plans launched about 8 weeks back.

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  • Canadian operator TELUS  has announced Wi-Xi squad that will visit various popular public places throughout the summer to give Montrealers free access to operator’s 4G LTE network.

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  • Huawei has announced that it has successfully conducted the LTE-A uplink coordinated multi-point (CoMP) trial on several commercial LTE networks in Europe and Asia. 

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  • MIPS Technologies and SySDSoft have announced the LTE protocol stack ported to the Android(TM) platform.

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  • ZTE has unveiled MF820S2 and MF91S, the new multi-standard USB modem and uFi that supports LTE FDD/LTE TDD/TD-SCDMA / EDGE. According to the company, its multi-mode wireless devices represent the next chapter in LTE terminal product development, breaking down regional standard barriers and constraints at user end points.

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