Vendor and MNO claim world first for product

50 UK cell sites already live ahead of a national rollout

Unipart Logistics CCO Claire Walters predicts increased demand in wearables and quad play as well as a more personalised customer service

5G fixed wireless connections could be an alternative to wired fibre offerings Samsung will partner with Arqiva to develop the first field trial of 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technology in the UK, as an alternative to fixed line broadband. 5G FWA connections can potentially overtake fibre broadband connections and boasts many benefits, including faster set up times

UTL managing director Claire Walters, tells Mobile News her thoughts on what might happen this year, including how vital a fast turnaround from high street retailers will be to networks 

BT estimates the new service will prevent up to 30 million nuisance calls a week

PRS Telecom has bought voice and data specialist DS Chiltern for an unspecified sum, marking its first ever acquisition in its 12-year history

Telecoms provider continues  its corporate acquisition strategy with Alternative Networks being its latest target

The E3 will be available from September, whilst the G4 Play has been given a release date of August

The high-speed service will be rolled out across the entire Chilterns Railways network by December 2016

Tributes pour in for Mobile Phone Xchange MD, who was also one of the first dealers in the market

Service provider provides trading update ahead of full year results, reporting a 13 per cent increase in mobile subscriptions

B2B provider’s half-yearly financial results show slight drop in turnover but rise in profits and mobile subscriber base

France Telecom-Orange tells EU it will have rolled out LTE technology across its markets by 2015 but says “a great deal” must still be done

Dealers given the whole day to pitch business ideas and opportunities to Daisy Distribution’s network partners at its forthcoming deal clinic next month

Plymouth firm provides 70 connections for disaster relief charity Shelterbox, delivering enough savings to pay to help 50 families

Alternative Networks’ profit up by 25 per cent as share in subscribers and revenues in mobile and fixed line increases

US operator debuts LTE services with USB dongles and claims a mid-2011 launch of compatible handsets is realistic

Operator Vodafone is first German carrier to introduce LTE in the country, offering 7Mbps, 21Mbps and 50Mbps download speeds

Regulator sets Summer 2011 date for ‘4G’ Long Term Evolution bandwidth auction, with operators Orange, Sunrise, Swisscom and In&Phone to bid

Hong Kong operator CSL is first Asian provider to debut full commercial LTE services with ZTE infrastructure, having run HSPA for 12 months

Sweden is the first market with competing 4G LTE offers from network operators, as Tele2 and Telenor go head-to-head with global market original Telia Sonera

Asia Pacific builds LTE momentum with new launches by NTT DoCoMo in Japana and CSL in Hong Kong

Smartphone sales help Alternative Networks claim revenue growth in the full-year 2009/10, with £7.5m purchase of Scaleable Comms giving it lead in Mitel sales

China’s ZTE and Hong Kong operator CSL are deploying what they claim is the world’s first commercial 1800MHz/2.6GHz dual-band LTE network

Chinese telecoms firm completes LTE network trials for Middle East provider in UAE

Italian network operator TIMcompletes Turin LTE trial

Hutchison 3G Austria joins with Nokia Siemens Networks to upgrade to LTE technology