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MTS, Ericsson and Qualcomm demo Rel-13 LAA

MTS has announced what it claims is the first commercial trial of License Assisted Access in Russia, in partnership with Ericsson and Qualcomm.

• 19 Jul 2017

Nokia has big plans for small cells

At a briefing in London Nokia’s small cells team detailed its current small cells activity and stressed it thinks the category is set to boom, at long last.

• 23 May 2017

FCC gives green light to controversial LTE-U

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has given telcos in the US the green-light to turn on LTE-U in their basestations, allowing devices to access the less-trafficked, unlicensed parts of the 5 GHz frequency band.

• 23 Feb 2017

MulteFire unveils wifi on steroids with release 1.0

Over a year after it was first announced MulteFire release 1.0 is completed, promising to bring LTE-like connectivity over unlicensed spectrum.

• 17 Jan 2017

Qualcomm and SK Telecom trial LAA on steroids

Just because Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) is still very much a work in progress, that’s no reason not to try and pimp it up a bit regardless.

• 29 Sep 2016

LTE-U coexistence harder than herding cats

A couple of recent announcements illustrate that achieving industry consensus over LTE-U makes herding cats looks like a walk in the park.

• 22 Sep 2016

Google, Intel, Nokia, Qualcomm and others form 3.5 GHz alliance

Some of the world’s biggest technology companies have decided to join forces in order to work out how best to exploit the 150 MHz of unlicensed spectrum that has been made available for commercial use.

• 24 Aug 2016

Nokia and STC partner to test MulteFire unlicensed LTE

Kit vendor Nokia has teamed up with Saudi telco STC to test MulteFire unlicensed LTE technology and demonstrate it can play nice with wifi.

• 12 May 2016

FCC gives Qualcomm LTE-U testing permission

Qualcomm has received permission from the FCC to test LTE-U use-cases in partnership with T-Mobile.

• 06 May 2016

Telefónica and Ericsson team up for live LTE-U demo

The growing momentum over the use of unlicensed spectrum for cellular communication has been boosted by the announcement that Telefónica and Ericsson combined to demonstrate live delivery of LTE-U.

• 31 Mar 2016

Samsung and Qualcomm announce LTE-U small cell collaboration

Electronics giant Samsung has announced it is collaborating with mobile chip leader Qualcomm to develop small cells designed to boost LTE via unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U).

• 17 Feb 2016

Verizon set to trial LTE-U via SpiderCloud small cells

Small cell provider SpiderCloud Wireless has announced that giant US operator Verizon will commence testing its LTE-U system to deliver in-building capacity.

• 11 Feb 2016

Telecoms.com Intelligence Annual Industry Survey 2016

Building on the success of our prestigious Annual Industry Survey, the 2016 edition is the largest undertaking we’ve embarked on to date. This year’s survey took in the thoughts and perspectives of more than 1,500 telecoms professionals with a staggering cumulative experience of 24,000 years. As usual we begin with our comprehensive sweep of the […]

• 11 Feb 2016

Qualcomm and Deutsche Telekom claim LAA first in coexistence trials

Qualcomm has added to the growing momentum behind Licence-Assisted Access (LAA) by claiming a world first over-the-air trial.

• 03 Feb 2016

MTS claims Russian 5G launch scheduled for 2018

It’s looking increasingly likely that 2018 will see major deployments of 5G across the world, as Russian incumbent MTS threw its hat into the ring with a predicted launch date.

• 21 Dec 2015

Qualcomm recruits allies for its MulteFire unlicensed LTE initiative

Having quietly launched its MulteFire take on the LTE-U concept back in the summer, Qualcomm has formalized it into an alliance that includes Nokia, Ericsson and Intel.

• 17 Dec 2015

Huawei and Docomo demonstrate unified LAA and wifi

Huawei says it has proved that Licensed-Assisted Access (LAA) and wifi are capable of coexistence as a unified channel in a dense small cell.

• 01 Dec 2015

Vodafone, Ericsson and Qualcomm demo commercial licensed/unlicensed LTE CA

Vodafone, Ericsson and Qualcomm claim they have successfully harmonised licensed and unlicensed spectrum for the first time via commercial LTE Carrier Aggregation (CA).

• 18 Nov 2015

Wi-Fi Alliance moves to defuse LTE-U tensions

The Wi-Fi Alliance is hosting a ‘Coexistence Test Workshop’ in a bid to defuse tensions between users of Wi-Fi and LTE, as their appetite for unlicensed spectrum threatens to bring them into contention.

• 04 Nov 2015

WBA and DSA sign unlicensed spectrum development pact

The scope for telecoms, networking and the Internet of Things (IoT) was widened yesterday as two of the technology industry’s most influential bodies formed a pact to jointly develop and regulate spectrum resources.

• 15 Oct 2015