The Belgian Institute for Post and Telecommunications granted a license to Telenet to begin LTE testing. Telenet will conduct these tests between May and September. The network will be located over the city of Mechelen and the highway that cuts between Mechelen North and Mechelen South.
“‘3G is nice, but if you are a serious company [...]

Telefonica, o2, Nokia Siemens Networks will all team to test LTE in Slovakia. The test will occur in the Banska Bystrica region on the 2.6 GHz band.
Telefonica O2 will test LTE technology in Slovakia in cooperation with Nokia Siemens Networks. The tests will be performed in 2010 in the region of Banska Bystrica based on [...]

The signing of a contract with Telenor Denmark for the rollout of a mobile backhaul commercial network was announced by Chinese telecoms vendor Huawei Technologies.
Huawei and Telenor Denmark have already begun deployment with hopes of completion later in 2010. Deployment of the IEEE 1588v2 standard should allow for Telenor to modernize the network to LTE [...]

Verizon Wireless has constructed a $50 million Mobile Telephone Switching Office in South Florida. It will strengthen wireless coverage and advance services for customers throughout the region.
It will serve as Verizon’s main processing hub for South Florida, serving Key West through all of Miami-Dade and Broward counties. The facility will be able to handle tens [...]

MTS Ukraine awarded a backhaul solution contract to Alcatel-Lucent. The mobile operator will integrate end-to-end management across multiple technology domains. It allows MTS Ukraine to simplify operations and reduce operating expenditures.
It allows for MTS to evolve from it’s current 3G CDMA-450 EV-DO platform to an all-IP platform, that will eventually be able to support LTE.
“Moving [...]

Samsung showcased its first LTE netbook at the MWC in Barcelona. Samsung uses it own LTE Kalmia chipset to power the N150. The 10.1-inch computer comes with a Livecam, internal microphone and headphone-out connection for video-conferencing, live messaging and VoIP.  The netbook has 8.5 hours of battery life through processing performance and enhanced battery life [...]

Kyocera announced yesterday that it plans to unveil the first LTE micro base station at Mobile World Congress (MWC), taking place in Barcelona, Spain on February 15-18.
The world’s smallest, lightest, and most efficient LTE micro base station stands out with its compact, all-in-one design. It is the ideal tool to compliment existing networks by enhancing [...]

Fourteen LTE patent owners from eight countries met in San Francisco last week to create the framework for a patent pool to endorse the adoption of the LTE standard worldwide.

“With LTE deployment now an operator reality, the economic logic of moving development cycles ahead to commercialization through patent pools is stronger than ever before,” said [...]

LG just announced that the Japanese government has certified its first LTE modem. This will be the first step in the country’s launch of an LTE network.
The modem builds on current 3G cell technology that improves data transmission up to 100Mbps. NTT DoCoMo plans to use the modem to test LTE, hoping to launch data [...]

NEC Corporation announced yesterday that it will be demonstrating their LTE concept terminal at Mobile World Congress 2010, February 15-18 in Barcelona, Spain.
The concept terminal shows the transmission of high resolution through its “LTE-PF” equipped communications platform and highlights the advantages of high-speed LTE communications.
The exhibition will feature dynamic live-action demonstrations featuring high-speed streaming of [...]