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  • AT&T to Acquire Leap Wireless in $1.2 Billion

    AT&T and Leap Wireless have entered into an agreement for AT&T to acquire Leap in $1.2 billion. Leap's network covers approximately 96 million people in 35 U.S. states. Under the Cricket brand, Leap currently operates a 3G CDMA network, as well as a 4G LTE network covering 21 million people in these areas.

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  • KT to Invest $4.3 Billion to Upgrade Network

    South Korea's KT Corp plans to spend 5.1 trillion won (4.3 billion dollars) over five years upgrading its network to meet demand from smartphones and other digital devices.

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  • Verizon Wireless to Complete LTE Rollout by Mid-2013

    Verizon Wireless is aiming to complete its 4G LTE network rollout by mid-2013, announced Fran Shammo, Verizon's EVP & CFO, at Wells Fargo Technology Media & Telecom Conference last week. Verizon Wireless had earlier said that by 2013 the LTE coverage map will match it's current 3G coverage map.

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  • Broadcom to acquire NetLogic Microsystems for $3.7 billion

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

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  • Zain Saudi Arabia and Motorola Sign Contract for the First LTE Network Deployment in Saudi Arabia

    February 15, 2010 - The Networks business of Motorola, Inc.

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  • Sprint to Acquire Spectrum, Customers in Midwest from U.S. Cellular

    Sprint has agreed to acquire PCS spectrum and customers from U.S. Cellular for $480 million. The deal includes parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio including the Chicago and St. Louis markets. 

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  • LTE Backhaul Decision-Difficult choices lie ahead for network operators

    According to a major new report from Heavy Reading mobile operators must begin planning now to support backhaul of Long Term Evolution (LTE) services, but a marked lack of an industry consensus aro

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  • GSM Kazakhstan/Kcell demonstrates LTE

    Mobile operator GSM Kazakhstan/Kcell has announced installation of LTE base station for demonstration. 

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  • China Mobile Selects Alcatel-Lucent for TD-LTE Trial Network Deployment

    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.

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  • Ericsson Announces Softbank LTE Contract

    Ericsson announced today that SOFTBANK MOBILE has selected it to build an LTE RAN in Japan's major cities,. Ericsson is the second big vendor to report LTE network contract this week, yesterday Nokia Siemens Networks 
    announced the LTE win to supply, deploy and integrate operator's 4G, FDD LTE network.

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  • ZTE wins USD 85M 3G contract with India's Aircel

    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.

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  • Magyar Telekom, Ericsson Demonstrate LTE-Advanced in Hungary

    Hungary’s telecommunication service provider Magyar Telekom demonstrated LTE-Advanced technology, jointly with Ericsson, on its test network in Budapest. Operator tested today at Telekom’s headquarters in Budapest the bandwidth that can be implemented by the LTE-Advanced.

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  • Clearwire TDD-LTE Initial Market Launches Scheduled for Early 2013

    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. 

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  • Verizon Wireless: 4G LTE trials showing 50 to 60 Mbps download rates

    Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that it is testing 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) service with the aim of launching commercial service in 2010.

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  • Smile Selects Alcatel-Lucent to Expand LTE in Tanzania, Uganda

    African wireless service provider Smile has signed Alcatel-Lucent to introduce 4G mobile broadband services to several more sites in Tanzania, and Uganda, extending the agreement signed earlier this year between the companies for the provision of LTE services in Tanzania.

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