Poland's mobile broadband operator Aero2 has awarded Huawei a frame contract to deploy commercial LTE TDD network for Aero2.

Huawei expects to double the 4G commercial networks it is building in 2011.

Poland has become the fourth country in the world to have a commercial LTE network. Polish operators CenterNet and Mobyland have collaborated to launch LTE services in the 1.8GHz band.

Telecom Italia has announced begining of second phase of LTE tests using two 20 MHz blocks in the 2500-2690 MHz frequency band, allowing data transmission speeds of up to 140 Mbit/s per cell.

Mobile service provider Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) with services in Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) has announced the commercial launch of a 4G LTE network in Uzbekistan.

After acquiring majority of Motorola’s wireless network infrastructure assets for US $1.2 billion, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is said to be terminating a joint venture of TD-LTE development with

Vodafone Germany has named Huawei and Ericsson as a technology partner for LTE development.

Australia's Telstra and Huawei are conducting LTE trials using 1800MHz spectrum in Victoria. 

Malaysian mobile communications service provider Maxis Berhad has successfuly conducted the 4G LTE trial and has demonstrated dowload speeds of up to 104 Mbps.

Ericsson expects to hold 25 percent of all essential patents for LTE, making it the largest patent holder in the industry, according to company website. 

The MSF (MultiService Forum) has announced completion of the global Evolved Packet Core (EPC) interoperability event.