TD-LTE

The Huawei-China Mobile deal also stipulates the deployment of NFV technology China Mobile Hong Kong and Huawei Hong Kong have inked a strategic partnership for the deployment of a LTE-Advanced Pro network. Under the terms of the deal, the telco’s existing …

The cloud deal aims to connect over 3,500 sites across 37 markets British Telecom signed a contract with global human resources services provider Randstad Group to deploy a new global information technology infrastructure providing cloud connectivity to more than 3,500 sites across …

Network rollout to be completed in the first half of the year Finnish vendor Nokia and Swedish mobile telephony operator 3 Sweden announced plans to deploy TD-LTE-Advanced mobile broadband technology to improve the operator’s quality of service in the European …

TD-LTE Advanced small cell supports carrier aggregation Nokia Networks, in partnership with leading global carrier China Mobile, deployed a first-of-its-kind small cell this month for a sports event held in Shanghai. Nokia’s equipment supported China Mobile’s network for the three-day …

SK Telecom rolls out tri-band LTE-A service SK Telecom claims it has commercialized the first tri-band LTE-Advanced service. The company made the announcement Sunday, noting that the service is in an effort to develop so-called “5G” networks. The tri-band LTE-A …

An estimated one in eight LTE operators have commercially launched TD-LTE networks, changing the landscape of antennas. “They have 65-degree multiband, multibeam antennas. We see those progressing to higher and higher port count as part of the evolution of antennas on …

In a follow on to today’s earlier announcement, Nokia Networks continued with its pre-Super Mobility Week announcements. The latest focuses on WiMAX to TD-LTE Advanced migration. There are three topics addressed in this latest announcement. 3.5 GHz TD-LTE radio with …

LTE technology looks set to surge in customer acceptance, with Juniper Research forecasting one billion users in 2017, nearly doubling to 1.8 billion users by 2019. The research firm claims that growth will push LTE towards 22% of the global …

The Global Mobile Suppliers Association reported this week that there are now more than 1,500 LTE-enabled user devices available, confirming more than 90% annual growth. The GSA said that 742 new LTE devices were launched in the past year, and …

Nokia Solutions and Networks recently completed a series of test cases for Voice over LTE on China Mobile’s TD-LTE network, including the world’s first live video call over this kind of network.

For the last year the telecom industry has largely been in a holding pattern, with incremental developments slowly building toward a larger, mainstream transition to new technologies.

Apple finally reeled in the biggest fish, announcing over the weekend that it finally secured a deal with China Mobile to offer its iPhone products beginning next month. China Mobile is the world’s largest wireless carrier with more than 760 …

Apple and China Mobile may finally have a deal to offer the iPhone to the carrier’s 700 million-plus subscribers, but most of those people are unlikely to be able to use the iPhone as an LTE device anytime soon. According …

China’s Shanghai Daily is reporting that China Mobile will launch “4G” services on Dec. 18, bringing the latest wireless technology to the world’s largest mobile operator. The TD-LTE network will run across a total of 130 megahertz of spectrum that …

ZTE has tapped Freescale (FSL) to power LTE small cell base stations to be deployed throughout China and Japan. Freescale’s QorIQ Qonverge BSC9132 base station on a chip will provide embedded intelligence for a new line of TD-LTE femtocell products. …

Alcatel-Lucent scored a major win for its LightRadio platform as China Mobile selected the vendor to supply more than 20,000 TD-LTE base stations by the end of the year. Financial terms of the deal were not released. The win follows …

As has become a yearly occurrence, Apple today unveiled its latest iPhone iterations, though this time it changed up the plan a bit by announcing two separate models: the “entry-level” iPhone 5C and updated iPhone 5S. For wireless carriers, the …

Attempts to further global roaming abilities of the TD-LTE standard reportedly are progressing as the Global TD-LTE Initiative claimed that new testing had begun between operators in China, Hong Kong, the United States, Japan, Korea and India. The carriers involved …

In 2012, LTE finally went main stream. Sure, there had been plenty of talk around this popular “4G” network type before, but this past year was all about deployment, deployment, deployment.

Well, that didn’t take long. Having a weekend to sleep on it, Clearwire today announced it would accept Sprint Nextel’s offer to acquire the remaining 50% of the company it does not currently control for $2.97 per share, or approximately …