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Sprint Adds LTE Network in Nine New Markets including San Juan, Puerto Rico

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U.S. operator Sprint has launched 4G LTE network in Altoona, Pa., Asheville, N.C., Columbus, Ind., Elkhart/Goshen, Ind., Hammond, La., La Crosse, Wis., San Juan, Puerto Rico, Statesville, N.C., and Temple, Texas. Operator has also expanded LTE service in San Germán, Yauco, Salinas and Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. 

Broadcom at Mobile World Congress 2013: Carrier Aggregation Demo for 4G LTE Networks

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Broadcom's Lars Johnsson, senior director of product marketing for mobile LTEi platforms in the Mobile and Wireless Group, talks about the carrier aggregation feature of Broadcom's 4G LTE modem at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Spain.

Dovado Announces Dovado GO portable 4G/LTE router

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Dubai Internet City, UAE / Kista, Sweden - March 4, 2013 - Dovado's, the supplier of mobile broadband routers and software to 4G/LTE and 3G operators and distributors, today announced that it has launched the Dovado GO, a fully portable 4G/LTE capable USB router.

Vodafone Launches 4G LTE in New Zealand

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Vodafone New Zealand has launched 4G LTE Network in 1800MHz frequency band. Vodafone's LTE network is live now in parts of Auckland and the network will expand to more suburbs in coming weeks.  LTE will be available in parts of Christchurch in May, and parts of Wellington in August/September 2013.

D2 Technologies’ vPort 4G+ Software to Provide VoLTE for NVIDIA LTE Modems

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Santa Barbara, CA – February 25, 2013 — D2 Technologies, the market leader in embedded IP communications software platforms, today announced its IR.92 VoLTE software will be used to enable carrier-grade Voice- and SMS-over-LTE capability on the NVIDIA Icera family of LTE multimedia data modem chipsets for mobile devices. <

Qualcomm Introduces RF360 For Single, Global LTE Smartphone Designs

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Qualcomm has announced RF360 Front End Solution that addresses cellular radio frequency band fragmentation and enables a single, global 4G LTE design for mobile devices. Band fragmentation is the biggest obstacle to designing today’s global LTE devices, with 40 cellular radio bands worldwide.

UK's 4G Spectrum Auction Winners Announced

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UK regulator Ofcom has announced the winners of the 4G mobile spectrum auction today. After more than 50 rounds of bidding, Everything Everywhere Ltd, Hutchison 3G UK Ltd, Niche Spectrum Ventures Ltd (a subsidiary of BT Group plc), Telefónica UK Ltd and Vodafone Ltd have all won spectrum.

Ground-breaking experimental 4G network will push the limits of application possibility

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14th February 2013 Clamart, France: OneAccess Networks, a global market leader in multi-service access routers and Carrier Ethernet access devices, has completed the successful integration of its powerful UDgateway optimization solution into the ground-breaking Com4Innov project in the Sophia Antipolis area of Southern France.

Astellia picks DigitalRoute for Expert Mediation in its Nova 4G monitoring solution

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Rennes, France, February 12th 2013 - Astellia, a leading provider of probe-based monitoring solutions for the optimization of mobile network QoS and QoE and DigitalRoute, a forerunner in mediation and data integration solutions for the communications industry, have jointly announced that Astellia is integrating DigitalRoute’s Mediatio

Maxis Introduces 4G LTE Smartphones

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Malaysia's communications service provider Maxis Berhad (Maxis) unveiled two 4G LTE smartphones today, the Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC One XL. These will be the first two smartphones to be activated on Maxis' LTE network. 

EE to Turn on LTE Network in 27 More Towns by June 2013

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UK's communications  company EE will switch LTE network in 27 additional towns across the country by June 2013, expanding  4G coverage to more than 65 UK towns and cities in total.

KPN Launches LTE Network in Amsterdam

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KPN has officially turned on 4G LTE network in Amsterdam. Operator expects to have covered approximately 50% of the Dutch population by mid-2013 and nationwide coverage in the second half of 2014.

Astellia to present its flagship Nova 4G monitoring solution at the Mobile World Congress

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Rennes, France, January 29th 2013 – Astellia will showcase Nova 4G, its new generation of monitoring solutions at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In the world of 4G monitoring Nova is taking a quantum leap with its leading edge technology coupled with Astellia’s accrued experience over the past ten years.

EE Launches LTE in Nine More Areas Across the UK

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UK's telecom operator, EE has made 4G LTE services available in nine new towns across the UK, bringing the total number of towns and cities covered by LTE to 27. EE switched on LTE today in Amersham, Bolton, Chelmsford, Hemel Hempstead, Southend-on-Sea, Stockport, Sunderland, Sutton Coldfield and Wolverhampton. 

SaskTel Launches Commercial 4G LTE Network in Regina and Saskatoon

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Canada's telecom service provider SaskTel will launch its 4G LTE network on January 31. At launch, LTE service will be available in Regina, Saskatoon, Clavet, Dundurn, Langham, Lumsden, Martensville, Osler, Pense, Vanscoy, Warman, and White City.