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Alcatel-Lucent maintains CDMA lead, gets upgrade contract from China Telecom

According to Dell’Oro’s latest Mobility Infrastructure report, Alcatel-Lucent retains its leading position in CDMA space.

One million femtocell shipments in 2010

At least a million femtocells are expected to have been shipped by the end of 2010, says ABI Research. This forecast indicates that femtocell rollouts have more than doubled in the last year.

Nokia Siemens Networks to deploy LTE pilot network for O2 Germany

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced plans to start deployment of  Telefónica  O2’s pilot LTE network in Halle (East Germany) in September 2010 .

Uzbek Operator UCell Tests LTE

Uzbekistan mobile operator UCell has deployed LTE network using ZTE’s equipments. The network is able to achieve a downloading peak rate of up to 100 Mbps, announced ZTE. 

Infonetics: WiMAX service providers plan full mobility by 2012

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

LightSquared secures spectrum deal with Airspan

Broadband wireless access solution provider Airspan has been selected by LightSquared to market LightSquared’s 1.4 GHz wireless spectrum.

MegaFon and Rostelecom test LTE

MegaFon and Rostelecom have successfully tested their Fourth Generation LTE network close to the major Sochi 2014 site, Roza Khutor.

MetroPCS Reaffirms LTE Readiness as Q2 Profit Triples

MetroPCS has reported more than three times increase in second-quarter earnings also company saw record subscriber additions.Net income rose to $80 million from $26 million a year earlier.

Clearwire to start FDD/TDD LTE Trials

Clearwire has announced plans to test Test both FDD LTE and TDD LTE in US. In addition Clearwire  will test multiple coexistence scenarios between LTE and WiMAX as well.

Rostelecom to launch LTE test network in August

Russian operator Rostelecom plans to launch the LTE test network in Penza by the end of August.