BROWSING: TD-LTE

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 $2.2 billion. The final price...

Few companies can’t wait for “tomorrow” as much as Clearwire, which released third quarter results late yesterday highlighting the fact that come this time next year things should be better. Those better days will include the planned launch of TD-LTE services using the carrier’s...

Japanese wireless carrier and soon-to-be Sprint Nextel majority owner Softbank, noted late last week that its interest in the U.S. market may not be over. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Softbank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said the company would not rule...

Clearwire reported second quarter financial results highlighted by drastic cost-cutting measures as the carrier continues to de-emphasize its current WiMAX operations in favor of its planned roll out of TD-LTE services expected next year. These moves seemed to enthuse investors as Clearwire’s stock (CLWR)...

Ericsson snared a significant contract win from China Mobile to deploy TD-LTE equipment for the carrier in Hong Kong. China Mobile is currently the world’s largest wireless operator, having today said it ended the first half of the year with more than 683 million...

Clearwire continued closing ties with the world’s largest wireless operator around the TD-LTE standard, announcing today the signing of an agreement with China Mobile to provide for international TD-LTE roaming between China and the United States. The agreement, officially entitled a “non-binding memorandum of understanding,”...

BARCELONA, Spain – The move towards the TDD version of LTE gained serious steam last week when during the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, China Mobile President Li Yue laid out plans for the world’s largest operator to deploy more than 20,000...

Which would be more cost effective: to deploy TD-LTE or V-DSL in Brazil? Nokia Siemens Network found the total cost of ownership in different locations across the country can be ten-times less expensive using TD-LTE. “The of V-DSL is ten-times higher than TD-LTE and...

FreedomPop, the wireless broadband startup backed by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, says it will buy wholesale broadband service from Clearwire instead of from LightSquared. The Federal Communications Commission has decided that LightSquared cannot move forward with its effort to provide wholesale mobile broadband as...

The wireless industry has settled on a single interface for 4G networks, LTE. Gone are the holy wars, first pitting GSM against CDMA; then W-CDMA against EV-DO; and finally HSPA/LTE against WiMAX.

Mobile technologies in unpaired spectrum have always been a challenge for me. I’m not ignorant of the many local successes of WiMAX and other alternative wireless broadband technologies, but none have really become global movements in the way they would have liked.

We expect to see some traction on the TD-LTE front in India in the second half of 2012. Maravedis forecasts that the TD-LTE subscriber base in India will reach 2.25 million by the end of 2012. RIL, a pan-India license holder, is expected to lead the market in terms of the number of TD-LTE subscribers with a 62% market share in 2012.

Clearwire (CLWR) reported an agreement with China Mobile (CHL) and the Global TD-LTE initiative for common test specifications and joint interoperability testing for the technology across global band configurations, including the 2.3 GHz to 2.7 GHz bands. Clearwire is set to use its 2.5...

SK Telecom, a South Korean wireless telecommunications operator, announced the successful development of Heterogeneous Network Integration Solution, which enables simultaneous use of different types of networks including 3G, LTE and Wi-Fi to ensure high-speed data service of up to 100 Mbps.

ZTE Corp., a provider of telecommunications equipment of network solutions, recently announced that it has completed a series of world-first tests between TD-LTE and 2G/3G GSM/UMTS networks using circuit switching fallback (CSFB).

iTnews | August 4, 2011 | James Hutchinson NBN Co has started an education campaign to curb potential opposition to new phone towers required in communities that will receive fixed wireless services. Read the full article here via iTnews

Marbridge Consulting |  June 10, 2011 A source within ZTE's (0763.HK; 000063.SZ) securities department confirmed today that the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer has filed a patent suit against rival Huawei in Shenzhen, adding that the court has accepted the suit and has begun legal proceedings....

ZTE | April 20, 2011 | Press Release ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has successfully demonstrated the ability for WiMAX and TD-LTE to co-exist on the...

Nokia Siemens Networks | March 25, 2011 | Press Release Provides TD-LTE network, OSS, services for large-scale field trial in Hangzhou With the approval of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MIIT), Nokia Siemens Networks has become one of...

People's Daily | March 8, 2011 | Li Yancheng China Mobile has launched large-scale telecommunications technology testing of the fourth-generation (4G) of its Time Division-Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) in seven cities. Soon it will launch 4G net cards in the latter half of this year. The...

Companies to Jointly Participate in TD-LTE Field Trials in India and China BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 16, 2011 -- Mobile World Congress -- Altair Semiconductor, the world's leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, today announced that their TD-LTE solution,...

Sequans | February 15, 2011 | Press Release Companies to bring affordable TD-LTE solutions to the mass market Barcelona, February 15, 2011 – Sequans Communications today announced they are working with Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) to ready TD-LTE solutions in all frequency bands, to...

Bloomberg | January 26, 2011 | Young-Sam Cho China, the world’s largest mobile- phone market, may begin commercializing its TD-LTE technology standard for so-called fourth-generation mobile services next year. Trials for the standard have begun and should last for 18 months, Zhang Feng, director of the...

CENS | January 12, 2011 | Steve Chuang Taipei, Jan. 12, 2011 (CENS)--The 2011 Taipei WiMAX Summit, held by Taiwan`s Ministry of Economic Affair officials on Jan. 10 at Grand Hotel in conjunction with week-long IEEE Session and WiMAX Forum Global Operator Summit, have drawn...