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  • Leap Wireless, T-Mobile to Exchange Spectrum

    Leap Wireless International has entered into license exchange agreements with T-Mobile USA (T-Mobile), Cook Inlet/VS GSM VII PCS LLC, a joint venture between T-Mobile and Cook Inlet, and Leap's non-controlled, majority-owned venture Savary Island Wireless, LLC (Savary Island) to exchange wireless spectrum in various markets.
  • Bharti Airtel Appoints ZTE to Supply, Manage 4G Network in Kolkata

    5 April 2012, Shenzhen, China– Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa has selected ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions to plan, design, supply and deploy its 4G network in Kolkata.  The forthcoming launch of 4G

  • US Cellular Launches First 4G LTE Smartphone: Samsung Galaxy S Aviator

    CHICAGO (April 5, 2012) – U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the U.S.1, have announced that the Samsung Galaxy S® Aviator™ is available today, both in stores and online at uscellular.com.
  • EMT Outlines 4G Progress, LTE Build-Out on Track

    The mobile operator EMT has built 130 4G base stations covering almost 35 percent of the country’s population since it launched the LTE network in Estonia on December 16, 2010. During 2012, EMT will build additional 200 4G base stations. LTE will be available throughout the whole country by the end of 2014, company announced.
  • Airtel Likely to Launch 4G in Kolkata This Month

    Indian telecom service provider Bharti Airtel is set to launch 4G services in Kolkata this month. "It will be launched this month in Kolkata," Bharti Airtel CEO Sanjay Kapoor said when asked about launch of 4G services by the company on sidelines of GSMA event here, reports Financial Express.
  • Oceus Networks Expands Xiphos 4G LTE Broadband Solution Suite

    RESTON, Va. (April 2, 2012) – Oceus Networks, a leading provider of broadband solutions to government and industry, today announced the availability of its new expanded fourth-generation (4G) Long Term Evolution (LTE) family of fully interoperable solutions that enable secure high-speed, high-capacity, voice, video and data transmissions.
  • NTT DOCOMO to Dissolve Communication Platform Planning Co., Ltd.

    TOKYO, JAPAN, April 2, 2012 --- NTT DOCOMO, INC., announced today that it has terminated an agreement concerning the establishment of a joint venture company to develop and sell semiconductor products for mobile devices, which the company signed with Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited, NEC Corporation, Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.
  • Rogers Extends LTE Network to Calgary and Halifax

    Rogers Communications has launched LTE network in Calgary and Halifax, Canada. With this further expansion, Rogers brings LTE to nearly 12 million Canadians, says the company. Operator further plans to cover almost 60 per cent of the population by the end of the year.
  • Signalion Removes Need for Remote Radio Head in Development, Trial and Prototyping

    Dresden/Germany, March 30, 2012 – Signalion’s successful radio frequency (RF) module in AMC form factor AMC-SRRM replaces Remote Radio Heads (RRH) in development, trial and prototyping environments.
  • LG Uplus Builds Nationwide LTE Network

    South Korean carrier LG Uplus completed and launched a nationwide LTE network yesterday, reports cstimes. The operator has spent over 1.25 trillion won ($1.1 billion) on the network. The cellular service will be available in 86 cities around the country. 
  • LTE Small Cell to Surpass Macro BTS Shipments in 2014

    Cellular base station architectures are shifting from traditional macrocells to distributed base stations and toward the growing use of small cell base stations. Number of LTE small cells shipments will surpass the number of LTE macrocells as early as 2014, predicts ABI Research. Company estimates that  127,000 LTE small cells would be sold against 113,000 by 2014.
  • New Mexico and Texas to get superfast 4G LTE services for the first time thanks to PVT supported by Alcatel-Lucent

    Artesia, N.M. and Paris, France March 29, 2012 – Many people living in the southwestern U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas are for the first time to be offered high-speed Internet access, thanks to the launch of a new 4G LTE service by Peñasco Valley Telecommunications (PVT) and supported by Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU).
  • Sprocket Wireless to bring high-speed mobile broadband services to rural Oklahoma with the help of 4G LTE technology from Alcatel-Lucent

    Warner, Okla. and Paris, March 29, 2012 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU), is helping Cross Wireless, doing business under the Sprocket Wireless brand, to bring superfast mobile broadband services to its customers in parts of eastern and southeastern Oklahoma in the United States.
  • Tecore Networks Announces Low Cost LTE Start-Up & License-Saver Systems for Regional Carriers

    Columbia, MD, March 28, 2012 – Tecore Networks® announced today the availability of a scalable LTE network ‘starter kit’ that includes the iCore LTE Core Network targeting operators with an initial deployment of up to ten thousand subscribers.
  • Huawei Conducts 4x4 MIMO Trial on Commercial LTE Network

    Huawei has successfully executed LTE 4×4 MIMO field trial in the network of Deutsche Telekom. According to Huawei, this field trial showed download data rates of up to 250Mbps. MIMO offers improved network performance in terms of coverage, spectral efficiency and throughput. The LTE 4×4 MIMO field trial utilized Huawei's SingleRAN LTE solution.

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