Sequans Communications has licensed unique LTE IP from Dorfour Ltd. The IP enables performance at four times the efficiency in size and power consumption of competing solutions.  Sequans, supplier of WiMax semiconductor solutions, recently announced the launch of its LTE development program. It has been working on it for more than 2 years.
“Our cooperation with [...]

According to Trading Markets, in June 2010 China Mobile Ltd.  is set to launch the terminals compatible with its 4G TD-LTE services. The first products being data cards, according to Wang Jianzhou, president of  China Mobile.
Qualcomm Inc. also plans to offer TD-LTE chips and other companies are expected to take similar actions earlier, according to [...]

It seems that LTE is going to be the wireless broadband standard of choice for the U.S. and most developed markets.  Companies building silicon for wireless consumer devices are pushing out chips for the standard.
According to Eran Eshed, vice president of marketing and business development of Altair Semiconductor Ltd., they began sampling its  LTE, chips [...]

Verizon Wireless today announced it will host a webcast on Jan. 20, 2010, to review updated specifications for wireless devices that will run on the nationwide 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network it is building on the Upper 700 MHz C-Block spectrum. The updated specifications address:

network access
SMS requirements and data retry test plans
new [...]

O2 mobile broadband users in Slough, England have been given LTE dongles to test out the new high-speed mobile network.
“We are pleased to collaborate with Huawei [which made the dongle] on this LTE trial,” said Derek McManus, chief technology officer at O2. “It will allow us to better understand this emerging technology and prepare [...]

Bridgewater Systems announced yesterday that  MetroPCS Communications Inc has selected Bridgewater’s LTE product suite as part of its planned rollout of 4G LTE services in 2010.
MetroPCS will deploy the Bridgewater Home Subscriber Server (HSS), a master repository that contains subscriber and device profile and state information, and manages subscriber identities, service profiles, authentication, authorisation and [...]

TeliaSonera claims to have launched the first LTE network. The 4G service, which as of right now is limited to Stockholm, Sweden, Oslo, and Norway, gives mobile users speeds much faster than 3G and WiMax. It has been said that an LTE user can download at up to 100Mbps as opposed to 10Mbps, the speed [...]

9th Regional Turkey, Caspian, Black Sea and Russia Conference and Showcase of Telecommunications and IT technologies

Caspian Telecoms Conference & Showcase is the only event for the telecoms industry for Turkey, CIS, the Black Sea States and their neighbouring Caspian and Central Asian regions. The event has grown steadily over last years and has now become [...]

Software specialist Anite says the outlook for the LTE testing market continues to improve and the sales foundation is building strongly.
Anite and LG Electronics recently announced the successful verification of the industry’s first LTE protocol conformance test case, an important step in the delivery of 4G devices and networks. LG uses Anite’s LTE solution to [...]

According to RF Globalnet, Sequans Communications has been selected by China Mobile to provide chips and USB dongles for China Mobile’s TD-LTE  network. Sequans’ TD-LTE chip technology is powering the world’s first TD-LTE USB dongles that China Mobile will distribute to World Expo 2010 visitors to experience the power of LTE first hand.
Sequans [...]