Huawei successfully completed an interoperability test (IOT) for an Ultra-Flash Circuit-switched fallback (CSFB) solution with Huawei infrastructure and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. chipsets at Huawei’s Shanghai R&D facility.

Colombia’s Avantel has selected Nokia Solutions and Networks to supply the complete infrastructure for its LTE network. As part of deal, NSN will provide the complete suite of radio and core network equipments.

South Korea's SK Telecom has unveiled “LTE-Advanced 3 Band Carrier Aggregation (CA)” technology that aggregates 3 bands 20MHz+10MHz +10MHz. This technology will support speeds of up to 300Mbps. LTE-Advanced 3 band CA is expected to become commercialized by the end of 2014.

MTN Zambia has commercially launched LTE network in the country. First phase of LTE launch covers Lusaka, Kitwe, Ndola and Livingstone.

Russian operator VimpelCom has chosen Nokia Solutions and Networks as vendor for its LTE radio access networks in the central region of Russia, Siberia, South and most of the Volga and Ural regions. Under the five-year agreement, NSN will deliver, install and integrate LTE radio access equipment.

Malaysian mobile service provider Maxis Berhad (Maxis) has announced the launch of Hotlink 4G, enabling prepaid LTE service for its customers.

French carrier Bouygues Telecom is now offering 4G LTE router dedicated to companies in France. Huawei B593 router can connect up to 32 devices (computers, tablets ...) via WiFi or on a local computer network using an Ethernet cable.

ZTE has announced that company helped China Mobile deploy voice over LTE (VoLTE) services on the operator’s commercial TD-LTE network in Guangzhou.

Slovak Telekom has acquired 2 x 10 MHz spectrum in 800 MHz, 2 x 40 MHz spectrum in 2 600 MHz FDD and 50 MHz spectrum in 2600 MHz TDD. For acquired spectrum Slovak Telekom has paid altogether 60 846 000 EUR. 

U.S. Operator AT&T has announced that it now covers more than 270 million people with 4G LTE. AT&T 4G LTE build expected to be substantially complete by summer 2014.

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.

U.S. carrier Sprint announced the availability of Sprint Spark in six new markets. The newly added markets are Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Lauderdale. Sprint Spark is designed to accommodate all of Sprint’s spectrum bands on a single device.