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  • Telekom Austria Group has picked Ericsson for its multi-standard radio network upgarde and to supply LTE infrastructure. Ericsson will upgrade the 2G and 3G mobile networks and also provide the LTE technology for Telekom Austria Group's subsidiaries A1 in Austria and Vipnet in Croatia. Rollout has already started.

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  • Nokia Solutions and Networks has announced six enhancements for its Single RAN (radio access network) Advanced portfolio to help operators simplify their radio access networks and management functions.

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  • French mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile has launched LTE service over the SFR and Bouygues Telecom networks in France. Operator had signed agreements with mobile operator SFR and Bouygues Telecom last year and had announced intent to launch LTE service first half of 2014.

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  • UK’s mobile operator EE today switched on its LTE-Advanced network in central London. The EE 4G+ technology uses 2.6GHz spectrum, and is available in large parts of central London, including Shoreditch, Old Street, Southbank, Soho, Westminster and Kensington. 

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  • Hong Kong's CSL Limited is now set to deploy LTE Advanced at 300 Mbps, operator announced today. In the demonstration of this technology, 1O1O and one2free showcased theoretical peak download speeds of up to 300 Mbps.

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  • China Mobile has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio™  4G TD-LTE overlay - for the nationwide rollout of high-speed mobile broadband network. After the successful completion of China Mobile's 4G trial, this additional award to Alcatel-Lucent is 11% of CMCC’s strategic plan of Phase I 4G network.

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  • South Korea based service provider SK Telecom is reportedly in talks with Harbinger Capital Partners to invest about a US$100 million  in LightSquared.

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  • Personal and Ericsson have launched LTE trial in Argentina that includes wireless broadband internet with peak speeds of 50 Megabits per second.

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  • TeliaSonera Sweden (Telia) has launched commercial LTE services in Malmo, the fourth city to receive 4G coverage in Sweden.  There are now 228 locations in the Telia's deployment plan.

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  • TeliaSonera and Ericsson have announced testing of  Self-Organizing Network (SON) functionality in a live LTE network.

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  • Ericsson has introduced a new radio product, AIR 3246, for Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (Massive MIMO), which is a complement to Ericsson’s global 5G radio offering. AIR 3246 supports both 4G/LTE and 5G NR (New Radio) technologies and is Ericsson’s first 5G NR radio for frequency division duplex (FDD). 

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  • After having introduced 4G/LTE at the end of 2012 and LTE advanced in mid-2014, Swisscom is now testing 4G/LTE bandwidths of up to 450 Mbps. Operator expects to launch higher speeds from the end of 2015. It will also be possible to make phone calls via 4G/LTE from summer next year, too.

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  • Chile's regulator Subtel  has awarded LTE spectrum to country's three largest mobile operators in auctions that raised more than US$12 million.

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  • Australian operator Optus has launched LTE network in Wollongong. Optus has switched on LTE at five mobile sites in central Wollongong, kicking off a series of extensive network upgrades and expansions in the greater Illawarra area in the coming six months, which will also include upgrades to the Optus 3G network.

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  • Orange Business Services has accelerated its LTE-M strategy to support the development of internet of things (IoT) solutions for the enterprise market. This follows the announcement by Orange in February 2017 that the Group would be prioritizing LTE-M across its footprint in Europe, and today it announces significant progress.

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