GSA publishes new Market Update - facts and stats on GSM, EDGE, WCDMA-HSPA, HSPA+, LTEⁱ, spectrum. Following are the highlights of this report.

• Fast Facts
• Vote on the next mobile broadband baseline
• Mobile subscribers update - closing in on 4 billion GSM, WCDMA-HSPA subscriptions(Q2 09)
• Market and technology updates and forecasts

September 9, 2009 | New Evolved Packet Core, Device and IP Backhaul Software Frameworks Combined with Existing eNodeB Offering Provide End to End LTE Systems Development Solution

July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Diana ben-Aaron | Ericsson AB, the world’s largest maker of wireless phone networks, submitted a bid for Nortel Networks Corp.’s wireless assets, which may help bolster sales of services in North America.

August 13, 2009 | Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Ken Wirth has been appointed as President of Alcatel-Lucent’s 4G/LTE Wireless Networks.

July 28, 2009 | SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Although competing 4G technologies will come to the fore in other countries, LTE will be the only route to 4G wireless service in China, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). TD-LTE, one of the two flavors of LTE, will receive much more support than LTE-FDD in China.

August 16, 2009 | 3G and 4G Wireless Blog - Verizon Wireless said Friday afternoon that it has completed "successful data calls" at its Long Term Evolution (LTE) test sites in Boston and Seattle.

The Motorola "LTE Drive" demo in Stockholm shows how the next generation of wireless broadband technology delivers true personal media experiences.