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  Nvidia today confirmed that their Icera modem chipset has earned a validation on AT&T’s LTE network. This is good news for AT&T smartphone and tablet users as there’s a high possibility as Nvidia will integrate the Icera chipset with its Tegra 3 to deliver an all-round performance. The chipset that got certified is the [...]

  Bharti Airtel has announced that they’ve picked up a 49 percent stake in Qualcomm AP’s India entities that hold the BWA licenses. The deal means good news for Airtel consumers as the operator will soon launch its 4G LTE service in Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala, expanding its LTE service to a total of [...]

  Chinese phone maker, ZTE has confirmed to unveil two new handsets equipped with LTE at the upcoming Mobile World Congress. The PF200 and N910 will run the latest version of Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich and will come with 1.2GHz and 1.5GHz processors (apparently dual-cores). The PF200 features a 4.3-inch qHD display, 8MP [...]

  Verizon has confirmed the release date of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet with LTE. The tablet which was on pre-order will be released on July 28 in two variants — 16GB and 32GB for $529.99 and $629.99 respectively. Verizon will also sell the Wi-Fi-only variant for $499.99. Galaxy Tab 10.1 owners on Verizon will [...]

  Japanese mobile subscribers wanting to delve into the LTE goodness will be able to do so from 24th of next month. NTT DOCOMO will launch Xi (read as Crossy) that will become Japan’s first LTE service giving users a max. downlink of up to 75Mbps. DOCOMO will initially sell USB dongles, and LTE-compatible mobile [...]

  Samsung has finally unveiled MetroPCS’ first LTE phone – the Craft (SCH-r900). It’s the world’s first commercially available phone supporting LTE, multi-mode, CDMA networks. Samsung Craft goes for $299 after $50 instant rebate and features a 3.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3.2MP autofocus camera with panorama, mosaic shots support, Wi-Fi, GPS, [...]

  MetroPCS and Samsung haven’t really shared many details about their upcoming LTE device except its official name. Now thanks to a forum poster, we’ve got the first images of Samsung Craft (SCH-R900) aka MetroPCS’ first LTE phone. The poster who leaked the images apparently appears to be a tester and claims the phone will [...]

  Qualcomm today announced its initial shareholders that will take forward its LTE plans in India. Qualcomm who won the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum in four circles have announced that Global Holding Corp. and Tulip Telecom will be its joint shareholders for LTE business in India. Qualcomm will hold a 74 percent stake in [...]

  Samsung had started selling its first USB-based 4G-only modems for TeliaSonera in December last year and promised to launch 2G/3G supporting modem in first half of 2010. Well, they’ve delivered it with the launch of GT-B3730 that will give the same blistering speeds while connected to a 4G network or 2G/3G in case of [...]

  MetroPCS has roped in Samsung to deploy LTE network in various metropolitan cities across United States. Samsung will not only provide MetroPCS with its commercial infrastructure network products, they’ll also have a phone, the SCH-r900 during the 4G roll out in the second half of 2010. We don’t know how Samsung’s LTE device looks [...]

  LG has proudly announced that its LD100 LTE modem is the first LTE device to receive Telecom Engineering Center (TELEC) certification, which is required by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC). This approval not only means LG’s device adheres to Japanese Radio Law technical regulations but will also allow LG to field [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]