LG Electronics (LG) has sold five million LTE smartphones globaly to date, company announced today. After reaching sales of four million LTE smartphones last month, an additional one million smartphones were sold in the month of July, company revealed.

Optus has switched on its first 4G LTE sites for customers in Gold Coast and in the Brisbane CBD. Operator has enabled 4G services at four sites in Surfers Paradise, in readiness for the growing number of holidaymakers travelling with new 4G tablet and handset devices. Optus will also activate additional 4G sites at Surfers Paradise in December.

Switzerland's Federal Communications Commission (ComCom) has announced plans to award the new frequencies before mid 2011.

Communications services provider Batelco and Huawei have successfully showcased LTE technology at Batelco`s Hamala Headquarters on March 22nd. During the trial speeds of 150Mbps were achieved.

Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Lazus - telecommunications operator working under the model carrier to carriers in Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica - to deploy ‘metro’ networks in nine cities in Colombia.

ZTE is supporting CSL Limited in expanding 4G LTE network coverage of Hong Kong’s MTR rail and subway system to provide an enhanced high-speed mobile experience for subscribers. CSL users will now have enhanced 4G experience on the MTR East Rail Line, West Rail Line, and Ma On Shan Line.

Sprint has unveiled its Network Vision blueprint to deploy a cost-effective, innovative network plan to further enhance voice quality and data speeds for customers acro