The mobile provider with the most subscribers will test LTE in May 2010. Telstra will use Ericsson technology to trial LTE on the 1800MHz and 2600MHz band. Telstra will use it to upgrade its current 3G networks and look into the possibility of expanding mobile broadband services. It’s just a test network in Australia. The company [...]

Sequans has unveiled its first LTE chip. The SQN3010 will be provided to China Mobile first. They will demonstrate TD-LTE network at the World Expo 2010 using Sequans. “Our new LTE chip will enable the first TD-LTE network deployments and we are very proud to deliver it,” said Georges Karam, Sequans CEO. “TD-LTE technology is very [...]

According to the the Financial Times (UK), the threat of legal action could delay plans for the LTE spectrum auction. The legal action comes from two mobile network producers, Vodafone and O2 and the dominant land line provider, BT. UK regulators planned to auction off LTE spectrum space in the first half of 2011, but legal action [...]

As European operators get ready to rollout LTE networks, they are supposedly fighting to retain fees for connecting calls to other mobile operators. This being said, some observers believe that the move to LTE could see the go ahead in Europe for American style flat rate calling plans to all networks instead. J. Scott Marcus, an [...]

  If the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) receives the broadband stimulus dollars that they are hoping for, a LTE network will be deployed across 15,120 square miles of desert in the American Southwest.   The NTUA asked for a $46 million grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and is hoping to soon find out [...]