Wireless Communications semiconductor company Broadcom is set to acquire NetLogic Microsystems for $3.7 billion.

Indian mobile service provider Aircel has selected ZTE to deploy LTE network in India. In the first stage, the LTE deployment will be initiated in Chennai, Rest of Tamil Nadu (RoTN) and few other business critical circles, reports Hindu Business Line‎.

Canada’s service provider TELUS has started offering LTE service in Bowmanville and Cornwall. With this expansion, TELUS’ 4G LTE service now covers more than 70 per cent of the Canadian population across approximately 170 markets.

ZTE has won a USD85 million UMTS contract with pan-India mobile service provider Aircel to build and deploy an advanced SDR-based 3G network.

US carrier Clearwire has planned TDD-LTE Network for high demand "Hot Zones" in 31 Markets. New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle will be among the 31 cities where the company will launch its LTE network during the first half of 2013. The company will announce the additional cities where it will launch TDD-LTE service at a later date. 

Scartel, under the brand Yota, had announced to drop Wimax in favor of LTE last week. "LTE network is already being planned in Russia" said company CEO Denis Sverdlov.

Alcatel-Lucent has won a major contract to deploy a part of China Mobile’s new TD-LTE trial network rollout as it extends services to 10 cities. Following the new rollout as well as upgrades to three existing networks, China Mobile's trial TD-LTE network will cover a total of 13 cities.