Nokia Siemens Networks, in conjunction with US mobile operator T-Mobile, has submitted a proposal for a new HSPA standard that would deliver downstream bandwidths up to 650Mbps. Although the LTE and LTE-Advanced standards provide a clear roadmap to 1Gbps, Nokia Siemens says it is important to maintain a migration path to higher bandwidths for HSPA.

3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the GSM family of technologies including LTE, has published what is says is a "highly anticipated resource report" on the evolution of mobile technologies to LTE and beyond and designed to be read by "interested members of the general public."

If Australia follows overseas trends mobile operators could soon start offering wireless broadband services with quality of service differentiators.

D-Link's latest IP security camera doesn't require a special application running on a PC. Instead, it can store footage directly to a file server or NAS device.

Ready for some acronyms? AT&T announced that it will upgrade its 3G network to HSPA a year or two ahead of rolling out LTE.

3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the GSM family of technologies, has published a new edition of the white paper that, it says "many have considered necessary reading for learning about the latest 3GPP standards."

Scandinavian telco, TeliaSonera has issued a press release claiming it has signed "the world's first 4G commercial contracts" and will be "First in the world with next generation's mobile broadband." Supplier Ericsson has jumped on the same bandwagon, but they are both wrong: this is 3G not 4G technology.

A new report from telecoms market analyst ABI Research predicts that the next generation of wireless broadband known as LTE (Long Term Evolution) could be deployed in some parts of the world as early as this year. What's more, LTE networks could be widespread over the next four years, with carriers around the world tipped to spend at least US$8.6 billion on deployments.

Prospects for 3G cellular networks delivering data at tens of megabits per second improved significantly this week when the global 3G standards body, 3GPP agreed to include specifications for long term evolution (the standard for data over cellular beyond the HSPA deployed in networks today) in the upcoming release 8 of the 3GPP standard.

If anybody tells you that WiMAX or HSPA is a 4G wireless technology, they're wrong: they are both 3G, but the roadmap from HSPA to 4G is much clearer than that from WiMAX, which could consign WiMAX to being a niche technology, according to IMS Research.