Long Term Evolutionist

In October 2009 Long Term Evolutionist featured interoperability testing for Samsung GT-B3710 USB LTE modem on TeliaSonera’s LTE network in Stockholm.

In December, TeliaSonera became the first operator in the world to offer commercial 4G/LTE services, in the central parts of Stockholm and Oslo.The Stockholm 4G city network is supplied by Ericsson. The Oslo 4G city network is supplied by Huawei.

TeliaSonera has three nation wide 4G/LTE licenses in the 2.6 GHz frequency band; in Sweden, Norway and Finland. The agreement with Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks cover network roll out during 2010 and 2011.
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As Shenzhen Post reported that Ying Weimin, the president of Huawei LTE product line, said Huawei had got over 30% shares in the tertiary tender of China Mobile 3G network construction, being the largest share among all the manufacturers. He also professed optimism about the future growth of Huawei, and predicted that global commercial LTE would be first introduced in the developed countries such as Scandinavia and North America in the next second or third quarter.
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Samsung isn’t just prepping WiMAX release 2 ( 802.16m ) for 4G deployment but also develop its LTE USB modem.

It seems Samsung doesn’t want to let LG to become the dominant player in LTE devices industry. Recently LG unveiled its LTE USB modem at CommunicAsia 2009 and showed up another model at CEATEC JAPAN 2009.
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Verizon Wireless is not the only US-based company that operates LTE development center.
As a member of 3GPP, ZTE has edited three standards involving 3G radio access networks and terminal systems. The company is also a board member of the WiMAX Forum.But it is no accident that ZTE has established an LTE not a WiMAX test center at its U.S. headquarters in Richardson, Texas.
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Verizon Wireless expects to commercially launch its LTE 4G network in up to 30 markets in 2010, covering 100 million people. Verizon has promised full nationwide 4G coverage by 2013.
At the Mobile World Congress 2009 in February, according to Verizon CTO Dick Lynch,there will be a few handsets and laptop cards with LTE about a year after the 2010 LTE network launch, but he stressed that voice is going to be carried over the 3G network well into the next decade — LTE will be for devices. In the future, consumers will have 8-10 LTE-enabled devices that “the consumer won’t even know has broadband,” he said.
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It seems LTE carrier in Asia Pacific region especially in Japan showed their commitments in LTE deployment.Last time we saw LG unveiled its LTE USB modem at CommunicAsia 2009.

Recently KDDI demonstrated video streaming from HD Camcorder to Plasma TV  and online gaming through LTE network at CEATEC JAPAN 2009. You can see video  of KDDI LTE demo at the end of this post.

Apparently KDDI worked together with Motorola to deploy LTE in Japan.

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Based on document of list commitments (March 2009) from mobile operator there will be 120 variety of commitments levels intentions to trial, deploy, migrate of LTE around the world.
Telefonica is a Spanish telecommunication company which operates globally, it is one of the largest fixed-line and mobile telecommunications companies in the world.
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Recently LTEist shared document of list compiled from Informa Telecoms & Media and public announcements. It includes a variety of commitment levels including intentions to trial, deploy, migrate, etc.

There is another good LTE tutorial found in “3G Evolution, Second Edition: HSPA and LTE for Mobile Broadband”  which coverage on LTE in this edition includes 270 pages on LTE.

“Reading a specification requires some effort. After reading the spec, you would know WHAT to transmit, but not WHY and HOW. This is where our book becomes important. Not only does it provide an easy-to-read description of the signals, procedures, and mechanisms in LTE, it also tells you WHY a certain signal, channel or procedure is present and HOW it is used. After reading the book, you will have a good understanding on how LTE works and why it is designed the way it is.” - the authors (Erik Dahlman, Stefan Parkvall, Johan Skold, and Per Beming Author)

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TelecomAsia recently reported in Asia Pacific there were 55 LTE networks in these categories compared to 25 mobile WiMAX networks in 1Q09, although mobile WiMAX had the clear advantage of 12 networks in service compared to zero for LTE, according to Informa Telecoms & Media research. In addition, including fixed WiMAX there were 71 total WiMAX networks in Asia Pacific in these categories in 1Q09, with 40 of those in service.
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3G Americas shared LTE document of list compiled from Informa Telecoms & Media and public announcements. It includes a variety of commitment levels including intentions to trial, deploy, migrate, etc.

You can download LTE document (PDF) here.

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