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China and Korea crack down on device subsidies

High end smartphone makers could suffer as China demands lower subsidies, and Korea mandates discounts for low end plans By Caroline Gabriel Handset subsidies are one of the most contentious...

Ericsson pushes HSPA to 63Mbps

Turkcell uses tri-carrier 3G+ technology to boost speeds even where it is not yet upgrading to LTE By Caroline Gabriel Not all the efforts to drive up mobile network speeds...

Chinese trio get FDD trial licences, no 700MHz

All three operators now have paired and unpaired spectrum, but will wait until 2015 for commercial FDD, and 2020 for sub-1GHz By Caroline Gabriel China Mobile suffered from being the...

Taiwan gets world's first LTE service in APT700...

Asia's band plan for 700MHz could be basis for near-global harmony, though EMEA will only follow after 2020 By Caroline Gabriel There are high hopes that the 700MHz band could...

FON model taking wireless world by storm

Telstra and KT are the latest carriers to sign partnerships with homespot pioneer, as its coverage goes global By Caroline Gabriel  FON, the pioneer of the WiFi homespot model, is...

Chinese cellcos to get FDD LTE spectrum this mo...

If Unicom and Telecom get FDD licences this month, China Mobile's 4G headstart would be severely reduced By Caroline Gabriel  China Mobile appeared to have played a blinder when it...