While India's Telecom Industry was recently in news due to recent 3G & BWA auctions and expected TD-LTE deployments from winners Qualcomm & RIL (Infotel), another giant step by TELECOM REGU

TeliaSonera has extensive LTE coverage planned throughout the year. A total of 25 locations in Sweden  to be expanded with 4G over the year.

This Qualcomm webinar was presented last month, it examines LTE Advanced and provides a high-level view into how it helps operators make the next performance leap. 

The main targets for 3GPP LTE evolution are increased data rates, improved spectrum efficiency, improved coverage, reduced latency and packet-optimized system that support multiple Radio Access Tec

UE class determines the speed at which data can be transferred in uplink and downlink directions. For GPRS & UMTS, most of us already are aware of it.

As of now 80 operators have made firm commitments to deploy LTE networks in 33 countries according to a recent GSA report.

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs today unveiled the "iPhone 4," at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. 

LteMaps has been updated with recent LTE deployments & commitments. Up to 22 LTE networks are expected to be in service by end of 2010. 

It has been a long wait for another commercial LTE launch after last year's TeliaSonera launch.

3GPP has already started work on Release 11. See objectives of features & study items from 3GPP Work Items below.

As Sprint launches America's first 4G phone today (see my prvious blog What to expect from Sprint HTC Evo 4G?

In an interview with Beet.TV, John Johnson, a Verizon Wireless spokesperson, said that Verizon has no plans on supporting Apple devices in the near future. 

Yesterday I read an interesting article on Massive MIMO. The next generation network beyond 4G could be built with big arrays of tiny antennas, according to Bell Labs scientist Tom Marzetta.

Only few days to go, HTC EVOTM 4G is set to debut on June 4, packed with features including video chat, simultaneous voice and data and HD video capture.