The E-Plus Group will launch a TD-LTE field trial in Germany in Q1 2011. The trial is based on 2.6 GHz spectrum that E-Plus acquired in the German spectrum auction.

Etisalat has inked an agreement with Alcatel-Lucent for a planned deployment of the LTE network in the UAE.

Telstra plans to upgrade its Next G network with 4G LTE technology later this year.

Qualcomm has announced its next mobile processor architecture for the Snapdragon family.

RIM has announced plans to launch two additional BlackBerry 4G PlayBook tablets during the second half of 2011, featuring support for LTE and HSPA+ high speed wide area

Manufacturers of user devices are responding positively to this trend and a robust support ecosystem for LTE is rapidly establishing.

Verizon Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone has confirmed that the company’s technologists placed a live, IMS-based VoLTE (Voice over LTE) call over its commercial net

Nokia Siemens Networks has demonstrated LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation on the company’s Flexi Multiradio Base Station. 

Last week Picochip held public demonstration of a commercial LTE femtocell eNodeB basestation working with terminals.

NTT DOCOMO has been pre-licensed by the Kanto Bureau of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications for field experiments of LTE-Advanced,

Australia’s wireless broadband provider, vividwireless, has announced the results of TD-LTE Trial with Huawei .

Nokia Siemens Networks is introducing Single RAN Advanced, an evolution of its Single RAN solution to support four radio technologies with the same equipment.

Canadian wireless carrier WIND Mobile has announced successful 4G live trial and introduction of High Definition Voice Calling (HD Voice) to the North American marketpl

The Femto Forum has successfully completed its second plugfest which focused on femtocell management. The series of plugfests aim to cultivate an effective ecosystem of standardised femtocells.