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Ericsson: mobile data traffic triples in a year

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Global mobile data has nearly tripled in the last year, growing more than 10 times faster than voice, says Ericsson.

Nokia Siemens Networks completes TD-LTE trial in the 2.3GHz band at the MIIT lab in Beijing

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Nokia Siemens Networks has successfully completed the TD-LTE trial in the 2.3GHz band at the MIIT lab in Beijing, China. NSN has met the complete TD-LTE test specifications defined by China’s

Ericsson delivers one million radio base stations in 3 years

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Ericsson has delivered 2 million radio base stations so far, It took Ericsson some 20 years to install one million radio base stations as announced in 2007, but it took only three years to deliver

Telecom Italia launches second phase of LTE tests

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Telecom Italia has announced begining of second phase of LTE tests using two 20 MHz blocks in the 2500-2690 MHz frequency band, allowing data transmission speeds of up to 140 Mbit/s per cell.

India's 3G, 4G Broadband Subscriber Base to reach 73 Million by 2015

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India's 3G enabled data subscriber base (notebooks, modems and dongles) will reach 40 million by 2015 and 4G subscriber base including 802.1e and TD-LTE adopters will reach 33 million subscribers i

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

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

One million femtocell shipments in 2010

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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

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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

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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

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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.

LightSquared secures spectrum deal with Airspan

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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

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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

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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

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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

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