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  • Deutsche Telekom's first LTE base station operational

    Deutsche Telekom's first LTE base station is fully operational in Kyritz/Brandenburg, Germany. In Kyritz, 800 MHz spectrum is used to provide efficient broadband coverage of rural areas.

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  • TriQuint Announces New Filter Technology for 4G Mobile Hotspots and Smartphones

    TriQuint Semiconductor has released a family of new highly-selective WiFi / WiMAX RF bulk acoustic wave (BAW) 4G filters.

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  • 3.2 Million 4G Devices Active on Telstra Network

    Australian operator Telstra has announced that more than 3.2 million 4G devices are now operating on its 4G network. This includes more than 360,000 4G smartphones since June 30 this year, or more than 25,000 per week. Telstra launched 4G mobile network two years ago.

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  • SK Telecom and Ericsson Demonstrate Elastic Cell Technology

    SK Telecom and Ericsson have successfully demonstrated the Elastic Cell technology on July 21. According to SK Telecom, Elastic Cell is expected to become a key technology for 5G. Demonstrating data transfer rate improved by up to 50 percent at the cell-edge, SK Telecom aims to commercially launch the technology by 2016.

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  • Alcatel-Lucent and Etisalat complete LTE trial in UAE using lightRadio

    Alcatel-Lucent and UAE operator Etisalat have completed a technology trial with Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio portfolio over a working 4G LTE network. During the trial, Alcatel-Lucent showcased the capabilities of its new 9768 lightRadio Metro Radio Outdoor (MRO) at Etisalat’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi, over Etisalat’s commercial 4G LTE network.

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  • Telcel Launches Commercial LTE Network in Mexico

    Telcel, a subsidiary of Latin American wireless services provider America Movil has launched commercial LTE network in Mexico. Starting last week, Telcel LTE network has coverage in 30 areas of nine major cities: Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Queretaro, Puebla, Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Hermosillo and Merida.

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  • Middle East to Surpass Europe in LTE Early Adoption

    LTE penetration rate of Middle East LTE pioneers Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and UAE is expected to reach 11.8 percent, more than the projected Western European average of 7.7 percent by 2014, according

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  • FTC Sues AT&T Over Data Throttling on Some ‘Unlimited’ Data Plans

    The Federal Trade Commission filed a federal court complaint against AT&T Mobility, charging that the company has misled millions of its smartphone customers by charging them for “unlimited” data plans while reducing their data speeds, in some cases by nearly 90 percent.

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  • Alcatel-Lucent Conducts Trial of LTE Public Safety Network in Las Vegas

    Alcatel-Lucent and the Las Vegas Metro Police Department, along with the Nevada Department of Transportation and other first responders, conducted a six-month trial of a 4G LTE public safety network in a designated section of the city of Las Vegas in the United States.  

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  • Sequans and Expway Announce LTE Broadcast over Wi-Fi Solution

    LTE chipmaker Sequans Communications and LTE broadcast middleware provider, Expway, announced the availability of a new platform for the delivery of LTE broadcast service to an LTE-Wi-Fi router, enabling all devices in range of the Wi-Fi router to receive the LTE broadcast streams.  

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  • Singtel Launches Nationwide 450Mbps Mobile Data Network

    Singtel today launched a 450Mbps mobile network with the nationwide deployment of 4G LTE-Advanced service in Singapore. This speed enhancement is made possible by Singtel’s nationwide LTE network upgrade to support 256 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, or 256 QAM.

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  • Swisscom first to launch three carrier aggregation combining LTE FDD and TDD modes in Europe

    Swisscom is provided by Ericsson the Europe's first fully commercial LTE-Advanced three-carrier aggregation solution combining LTE in both FDD and TDD modes. The demonstration used three carriers in two bands in a radio access network and used commercial-grade chipsets.

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  • Nokia to Supply 5G Gears to NTT DOCOMO for Commercial 5G Service

    Nokia has signed an agreement with Japan's mobile operator NTT DOCOMO to supply 5G baseband equipments for aiming to deploy in a 5G mobile network planned to be in commercial service by 2020.

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  • Etisalat UAE Selects Alcatel-Lucent for LTE Network Expansion

    Middle East's telecommunications operator Etisalat has selected Alcatel-Lucent to extend its LTE coverage in the United Arab Emirates. The new network will address the challenge of increasing demand for high-speed mobile broadband fueled by video, gaming and other high-bandwidth applications.

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  • Globe Telecom Upgrades Network Capacity, Expands LTE TDD/FDD Footprint

    Philippines operator Globe Telecom is continuously upgrading its network and expanding its LTE TDD and LTE-FDD footprint to further strengthen mobile data infrastructure and deliver faster and more reliable wireless internet connectivity.

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