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Monday, November 7, 2011

LTE watch Weekly Summary [10/31~11/6, 2011]

Market

Ecrio and Pantech Join Forces to Launch IMS Smartphone on 4G/LTE Networks
Source: Ecrio press release
Ecrio and Pantech announced the release of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (“IMS”) compliant Pantech 4G/LTE Smartphone in North America.

DoCoMo targets 30m LTE subs by 2015
Source: Telecom Asia
Japan's NTT DoCoMo has laid out is expansion plans for the next few years, including reaching 30 million LTE subscribers by 2015.

India's two Reliance firms to share towers for 4G
Source: Rethink Wireless
One of India's most bitter corporate feuds, between the Ambani brothers who control the two Reliance companies, may be ending, as the firms look to share infrastructure.

Trial

SK Telecom trials LTE Smart Cloud Basestation
Source: Korea News Wire
Article in Korean.

Analysis

The 4G Dichotomy
Source: Light Reading
With the advent of much faster 3G and Long Term Evolution (LTE) devices that have capped data plans, it gets easier to blow through the 2GB or 5GB limit on your contract.

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