Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
In a decision that has been eagerly awaited by the global cellular industry, US mobile operator Verizon Wireless (a JV between Verizon and Vodafone) has announced plans to upgrade its network to 3G Long Term Evolution and has named Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent as its initial vendors'
Details of the plans were unveiled by Dick Lynch, Verizon executive vice president and chief technology officer, in his keynote address to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. If implemented on schedule they will make Verizon Wireless the first telco to offer commercial LTE-based service in the United States, starting in 2010.
The company has not detailed how its demand for LTE technology and expertise will be divided up between the two vendors, or given any indication of the scale of its contracts with the two suppliers. However, it claimed that its decision would "jump-start deployment of LTE networks globally."
Verizon Wireless also announced that in addition to Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent, Starent Networks had been selected to supply the packet core network underlying the LTE radio access network and that Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent had been selected as key suppliers for the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network, which will enable rich multimedia applications regardless of access technology. Verizon says it plans to offer IMS-based IP converged applications and services on its wireless and landline broadband networks.
Verizon Wireless also intends to create an LTE Innovation Center, in the suburban Boston community of Waltham, Massachusetts with support from Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent.
Lynch said the mission of the centre would be to act as the catalyst for early development of non-traditional products for use on LTE networks and that it would be solely focused on helping Verizon Wireless technology partners quickly develop and bring to market new and innovative LTE-based solutions within the consumer electronics, machine-to-machine, and business products segments.
Verizon Wireless intends to use its recently acquired 700MHz spectrum for LTE deployment
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