Telefonica has announced it has begun trials of LTE. Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei, NEC, Nokia Siemens Network and ZTE will all provide their proposed hardware for the trials which will hopefully take the technology significantly closer to a 2010 mass roll-out. “At Telefónica we are working with the conviction that we can only offer our clients the [...]

Rumors have been circulating the internet stating that Apple and Verizon have been testing an iPhone on Verizon’s 4G LTE network. Analysts are reporting that AT&T’s exclusive iPhone deal is up in June 2010 and that Verizon will have LTE technology up and running in 20-30 markets in 2010. With the launch of a new [...]

ZTE Corporation, China’s telecom equipment and device manufacturer announced that they are  promoting LTE  with Vodafone’s German subsidiary. In order to cooperate with many of Europe’s telecommunication operators to promote LTE testing and construction, ZTE Corporation has established an LTE research center in Germany. The company has increased its investment in the development of LTE, and [...]

Information Week reports that Infineon is teaming with Nokia to create chips for the next generation of mobile broadband. Infineon already supplies Nokia with some chips, but they will be collaborating to ensure its transceiver chips will work with Nokia’s 4G modems that use Long-Term Evolution technology. The deal could also eventually lead to Infineon [...]

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo will launch commercial LTE service in December of next year. They will be skipping the interim upgrade to HSPA+  and delay the launch of LTE to when the devices are ready. The annoucement was made yesterday by NTT DoCoMo President and CEO Ryuji Yamada at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress. Yamada said [...]