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 [...]