The 2011 Informa LTE Awards 2011 winners were announced Tuesday night at an gala dinner presentation at De Duif Amsterdam. The event was part of the LTE World Summit 2011 in Amsterdam.

Acme Packet has entered in to a partnership with ip.access, a provider of picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions.

UK Broadband (UKB) has announced that its 4G LTE service 'now Broadband' is now available in areas of Swindon, Southwark and Reading. Company’s fixed wireless LTE service offers broadband via a home router with no long-term contracts and provides users a flexible alternative to a fixed broadband connection.

MediaTek's first LTE System on Chip (SoC) is now commercial available in Europe. According to company, its quad-core LTE SoC delivers exceptional multitasking and multimedia capabilities as well as LTE download speeds.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has initiated steps to make additional spectrum available for new investment in mobile broadband networks.  

Broadcom has announced a turnkey reference platform designed to help OEMs rapidly develop a portfolio of affordable 4G LTE mobile devices. This new platform is targeted at the growing sub $300 LTE smartphone market.    

The E-Plus Group will launch a TD-LTE field trial in Germany in Q1 2011. The trial is based on 2.6 GHz spectrum that E-Plus acquired in the German spectrum auction.