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Indian telecom operators contemplating to skip 3G, go for 4G
When operators were willing to spend an arm and leg for 3G spectrum, the government was struggling to fix a base price and when government is ready, operators are thinking to give it a miss. An article in Business Line says that cellular operators are contemplating to skip 3G and instead go for 4G deployment [...]
Commercial 4G/LTE network goes live in Stockholm (Update: and Oslo)
UPDATE: The network’s live in Oslo, Norway.
TeliaSonera has become the first operator in the world to commercially launch the 4G or LTE services in Stockholm, Sweden. It is touted as the largest deployment till date and is 10 times faster than HSDPA, giving about 100Mbps down speed.
LTE or Long Term Evolution is the next-gen [...]
Samsung will provide TeliaSonera world’s first to sell 4G/LTE USB modems
TeliaSonera have struck a deal with Samsung that will mostly make the European operator, the first ones to sell 4G/LTE modems. The modem (GT-B3710) is USB-based and will be available commercially in Sweden and Norway in 2010 with a promise of up to 10 times higher speed than available today.
The chip inside the LTE [...]
LG readies world’s first LTE modem chip for mobile phones
LG’s visionary approach has resulted in a development of mobile phone’s 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) modem chip . The theoretic speeds suggest 100Mbps for downloading and 50Mbps for uploading but a demonstration by LG showed actual download speeds reaching 60Mbps and upload speeds of 20Mbps, which still surpassed the current HSDPA download speed of [...]