Vodacom has launched its live LTE trial network in Midrand, first in Africa. Vodacom has fully integrated its LTE network with its current 3G/HSDPA network and uses the same spectrum.

Nokia Siemens Networks has integrated its microwave backhaul system with cell site and aggregation routers from Cisco to boost mobile backhaul capacity.

LTE-Advanced and IEEE 802.16m WiMAX have cleared the ITU 4G standard requirements, according to Korea Communications Commission.

Motorola is now offering WiMAX Evolution solution for operators to upgrade existing WiMAX 802.16e / 802.16e Enhanced networks to 802.16m or TD-LTE or to add LTE to their existing WiMAX networks.&nb

WiMAX equipment manufacturers, service providers and chip companies have reached a major milestone in advancing the speed of data and the efficiency of broadband wireless networks based on the 802.

Philippines service provider Globe Telecom has started testing the Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in collaboration with parent SingTel. 

Menatelecom has signed a expansion contract with Motorola to boost its WiMAX network capacity and coverage in Bahrain to handle 100,000 subscribers.

Verizon Wireless says that by 2013 the LTE coverage map will match it's current 3G coverage map.

Verizon Wireless has selected CETECOM as a laboratory to test devices for operation on the nationwide 4G LTE network that Verizon Wireless is building on the Upper 700 MHz C-Block spectrum. 

Motorola has added two new WiMAX devices, CPEi 800 and the CPEi 885.

Nokia Siemens Networks has launched its SON (Self Organizing Networks) offering for LTE at CommunicAsia 2010 in Singapore. The offering is part of the Nokia Siemens Networks SON suite. 

Acme Packet has added four new customers across southeastern Asia for its session border controllers (SBCs).

NetLogic Microsystems has announced that its families of multi-core, multi-threaded processors have been designed into multiple equipment, from eNodeB base stations to Gateways, that are deployed i

Alcatel-Lucent  expects return to growth in Asia, according to Rajeev Singh-Molares, president of Alcatel-Lucent’s Asia-Pacific operations, reports The Wall Street Journal.