August 16, 2009 | 3G and 4G Wireless Blog - Verizon Wireless said Friday afternoon that it has completed "successful data calls" at its Long Term Evolution (LTE) test sites in Boston and Seattle.

August 14, 2009 | LTE standards are in matured state now with release 8 frozen. While LTE Advanced is still under works. Often the LTE standard is seen as 4G standard which is not true. 3.9G is more acceptable for LTE. So why it is not 4G? Answer is quite simple - LTE does not fulfill all requirements of ITU 4G definition.

August 14, 2009 | Trials Include First Field-Level Tests Integrating Network Vendors’ 4G Technology Over 700 MHz Spectrum.

August 14, 2009 | Taiwan-based carrier Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) is currently experimenting with LTE technology and planning to build a long term evolution (LTE) network in 2011, DigiTimes reports, citing company chairman Shyue-Ching Lu.

August 13, 2009 | Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Ken Wirth has been appointed as President of Alcatel-Lucent’s 4G/LTE Wireless Networks.

This newsletter provides some slides about Nomor's initial thoughts on LTE Advanced or 3GPP Release 10.
The slides cover the followings:

August 13, 2009 | Ericsson CTO Hakan Eriksson doesn’t much care for WiMAX according to GigaOM. He doesn’t even think of it as a real 4G wireless technology

GSA publishes new Market Update - facts and stats on GSM, EDGE, WCDMA-HSPA, HSPA+, LTEⁱ, spectrum. Following are the highlights of this report.

• Fast Facts
• Vote on the next mobile broadband baseline
• Mobile subscribers update - closing in on 4 billion GSM, WCDMA-HSPA subscriptions(Q2 09)
• Market and technology updates and forecasts