© Vagamundos Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson this week announced an agreement to limit royalty rates on patents related to Long Term...

ABI Research this week released a report entitled Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) Might Be Dead on Arrival But Qualcomm Wins with OFDMA and MIMO Anyway, which suggests that the prospects for widespread...

Verizon Wireless today announced plans to develop a 4G wireless network using LTE (Long Term Evolution), the 3GPP's 4G technology. Trials will begin in 2008. CNET News' Tom Krazit notes that...

In-Stat today released a new report entitled The Road to 4G: Will LTE, UMB and WiMAX Just Be Stops Along the Way?, which says 4G technology won't really roll out until the 2010 to 2012 timeframe....

InternetNews' Roy Mark reports that former FCC chairman Reed Hundt is using the popularity of the iPhone to talk up the need for a nationwide 4G wireless network. Hundt says AT&T's...

WirelessWeek's Joni Morse reports that AT&T Wireless may skip the WiMax technology that Sprint and others are counting on, and move straight on to high-speed 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution)...

India's Financial Express reports today that the Government of West Bengal has announced plans to invest approximately Rs 15 crore in the Danish wireless tech company Wireless Innovation Platform...

According to Electronic News' Colleen Taylor, a new report from ABI Research entitled Mobile Handset Royalties states that while just 12 companies own 80 percent of the essential WCDMA...

Reuters reports today that China, where 3G is not yet largely available, has announced the launch of the "world's first fourth-generation standard." According to the China Daily, a...

ZDNet Asia's Lynn Tan reports today on an analyst briefing by Samsung's Kang Hoon Lee regarding the relationship between WiBro and future 4G networks. "WiBro is a necessary intermediate...

T3's Mike Cooper reports from Tokyo, where he visited the headquarters of NTT DoCoMo to experience a prototype 4G phone, intended for release in... 2015. The handset, which runs over a 1 Gbps...

Telecommunications Magazine's Ken Wieland reports that Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski said last week at a press conference that his company will take a leadership role in 4G wireless tech, largely by...

TMCnet's Mae Kowalke reports today that U.K.-based Truphone has declared itself the world's first 4G network operator. Truphone's software infrastructure lets users place calls and send...

DailyTech's Samad Khan says Sprint is expected to announce its 4G plans soon. "While most major US mobile phone carriers struggle to implement 3G wireless networks, Sprint has already made...

ElectricNews.net's Maxim Kelly reports today that Ireland's TGT Mobile is "gearing up for a three-pronged assault on the telecoms market with a combined landline, broadband, and mobile...

According to IDG's Stephen Lawson, Sprint COO Len Lauer said last week that his company plans to select a 4G technology by the end of August and start deploying the system in 2008. "The...

TelecomWeb reports that NTT DoCoMo today claimed that it had demonstrated a successful 2.5 Gbps downlink packet transmission while moving at 20 kilometers per hour in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture in...

India's NewKarala.com suggests today that India is a major market for WiMax and future 4G technologies, the argument being that such wireless solutions are the only viable way to meet the...