du has announced the completion of the first phase of its Optical Transport Network (OTN) expansion along with its own Backbone Infrastructure. With this, du is among the first few telecom service providers in the Middle East to establish OTN on a national scale across the country, converging all its services. The landmark venture is [...]

If you’re impressed with the current generation of LTE services, wait until you get a load of LTE Advanced. Ericsson announced today that it had conducted a demonstration of LTE Advanced technology in Sweden that saw speeds peak at just under 1Gbps. That marks a tenfold increase over the peak speeds of current LTE networks. [...]

Aerohive Networks has released new wireless LAN software, with new mobile device management and spectrum analysis features. The changes are being rolled out in the version 4.0 release of HiveOS, for the company’s 802.11n Wi-Fi access points, and of HiveManager, its network management applications.Aerohive, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is unique among WLAN vendors, creating intelligent access points [...]

Nokia unveiled Tuesday its new N9 smartphone that runs the MeeGo operating system, and is being marketed as a “pure touch screen” device without buttons. The N9 will launch later this year, and the company will release later the device’s pricing and availability in various markets, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said at a company event [...]

Informa Telecoms & Media today issued its latest femtocell market status report which revealed that there are now in excess of 2.3 million 3G femtocells globally compared to 1.6 million 3G macrocells, highlighting the growing popularity of the technology. There are now 31 commercial femtocell services worldwide which represents over 60% growth in deployments in [...]

AXIS, the Indonesian subsidiary of Saudi Telecom Company, has signed $1.2 billion financing deal with a tenor of 7.5 years with local and international financial institutions. The deal comprises three facilities: $450 million Murabaha commercial facility, arranged by Deutsche Bank and HSBC and underwritten by Deutsche Bank and Saudi British Bank (SABB); a $400 million [...]

du has successfully conducted and completed its first pilot on Long Term Evolution (LTE) on its mobile network supporting mobile broadband speeds upto 150 Mbps. The pilot was conducted in April 2011.  Commercial launch of LTE services is slated for the second half of 2011. This move follows closely on the heels of du’s launch [...]

Motorola Solutions Tuesday recast its enterprise WLAN product line with a new range of one- and two-radio 802.11n Wi-Fi access points, plus a large-scale controller that can handle 10,000 access points. The product refresh is intended to make large-scale, high-performance Wi-Fi networks more affordable and reliable. The new products incorporate Motorola’s Wireless Next Generation (WiNG) 5 [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola Solutions have jointly announced that Nokia Siemens Networks has completed its acquisition of Motorola Solutions’ Networks assets paying $975 million in cash. As of April 30 2011, responsibility for supporting customers of Motorola Solutions’ GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, WiMAX and LTE products and services transfers to Nokia Siemens Networks. “The people, [...]