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After repeated delays, China is set to award 3G licenses by beginning of 2009. China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Li Yizhong announced on December 12 that 3G network licenses will be issued by the beginning of next year and the country's three restructured telcos are expected to invest CNY 200 billion (US$29 billion).

After much talk, India's regulatory authorities and telcos are stepping up the pace with a deadline set to bid for 3G wireless licenses and trial services in place or due soon to facilitate the implementation of national networks.

The Indian Department of Telecoms (DoT) has published its official timetable for the award of its 3G licences across the country as well as a breakdown of how the relevant spectrum will be allocated across the telecoms circles.

For a country that receives international aid as it seems unable to feed its population and yet claims to be self-sufficient as a nation, North Korea, or officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has accepted inward investment of US$400 million from Orascom to build a 3G mobile network.

Partners again with Sprint for 3G service while moving towards LTE

Bosnia and Herzegovina's leading telecommunications provider, m:tel, deployed Alepo's Carrier WiFi solution to improve network capacity of its 3G and LTE networks by offloading traffic to WiFi. It also wanted to bolster its monetization capabilities with paid and sponsored WiFi services.

Good news for those wireless operators with business plans not based on WiMAX: The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), an ITU-based standards organization, has completed its latest round of work clarifying the specifications for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wireless.

Finally something to really get 4G WiMax going- the addition of Cisco as a partner to build the network hardware. Get ready for full-fledged cell phone video conferencing.

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