13 July 2009| by David Manners: Approximately 400,000 WiMAX subscribers and 50 million new active 3G subscribers were added in Q1 2009, says Canadian telecoms analyst company Maravedis.

By Jonathan Browning| July 12 (Bloomberg) -- NTT DoCoMo Inc.

By Jungmin Hong| July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Ericsson AB, the world’s largest maker of wireless networks, plans to invest $1.5 billion in South Korea over the next five years.

The objective of this paper is to provide a basic overview of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial system operating in Bonn, Germany through cooperation between T-Mobile International and Nortel.

Wireless traffic volume is growing at a staggering pace, driven by new highspeed mobile services such as mobile video, multimedia messaging and web browsing.

Martin Sauter discusses about HSPA & LTE,

And here's my LTE thought of the day:

Regular readers of this blog probably remember that I'm a fan of Voice over LTE via GAN (VOLGA).

4G - an abbreviation for Fourth-Generation, is a term used to describe the next complete evolution in wireless communications .(also known as Beyond 3G)

07/10/2009|R. Colin Johnson|EE Times : PORTLAND, Ore. — Starting in about 2012, 4th generation (4G) long-term evolution (LTE) technologies promise to convert today's wireless mobile networks from dependence on traditional circuit switching to a flat, Internet Protocol (IP) networking architecture.

July 10, 2009| By Vivek Naik: An IT market research firm is reporting that wireless operators will spend about $3.3 billion on buying and building 142,000 Long Term Evolution base stations and related equipment throughout 2011.

Quietly last week the VoLGA Forum published its Stage 2 specifications.  Download it now from www.VoLGA-Forum.com.  

A mobile knowledge-based society in Europe can be created with more attractive 3G mobile services, which can also pave the way for LTE-based services. Excerpt from the 2009 Ludwig Erhard Lecture at the Lisbon Council in Brussels by European Telecoms and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding.

SHENZHEN, Jul 09, 2009 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- China has started testing its 4G telecoms technology TD-LTE. Six telecoms networking gear makers such as China Putian have taken part in the test. They all have the ability to research and develop the TD-LTE technologies on their own. read more

By Dusan Belic on July 9th, 2009: According to a new report from Juniper Research, the number of LTE subscribers will exceed 100 million by 2014.