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Sunday, July 31, 2011

LTE watch Weekly Summary [7/25~31, 2011]

Market

Verizon Introduces LTE Notebook (HP Pavilion dm1-3010nr) and Tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1)
Source: Verizon Wireless press release

Sprint Nextel and LightSquared Announce Spectrum Hosting and Network Services Agreement
Source: Sprint press release
LightSquared™ and Sprint Nextel announced today they have entered into a 15-year agreement that includes spectrum hosting and network services, 4G wholesale, and 3G roaming.

Status of the LTE Ecosystem report- 161 LTE User Devices launched by 45 manufacturers
Source: GSA

Analysis

NSN loses out as Lightsquared confirms Sprint tie-up
Source: telecoms.com
US wholesale player Lightsquared has confirmed that it has entered into a partnership with Sprint Nextel that will see Sprint deploy an LTE network on Lightsquared’s behalf. The deal has put a serious dent in the US ambitions of Nokia Siemens Networks, which was named as Lightsquared’s network deployment partner last year.

Infrastructure

IPWireless Launches LTE Product Portfolio for Public Safety Network in 700MHz
Source: IPWireless press release

Trial

Softbank Mobile and Ericsson demonstrate new LTE feature to improve cell-edge data rate
Source: Ericsson press release
SOFTBANK MOBILE and Ericsson have successfully demonstrated the benefits of a new feature, cooperative transmission control/coordinated scheduling in LTE radio base stations (Coordinated Multi Point, or CoMP in LTE Release 11), which significantly improves cell-edge user performance.

Tutorial

Free IEEE technical papers on LTE courtesy of IEEE ComSoc

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