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Update – January 4, 2010: In a report leaked to the media today, Merrill Lynch International analyst Cynthia Meng said; “China Unicom and Apple are likely to reach a for more than a two-year exclusive iPhone distribution agreement.” According to a China Unicom spokesperson, the two sides (Apple and China Unicom) are negotiating for an extended iPhone agreement. [...]

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Nortel issues a PR to pump up TDD LTE Here’s a short excerpt: 2/16/09 BEIJING, China – Nortel* [NRTLQ] has successfully completed the first end-to-end video streaming session using a Time Division Duplex (TDD)-based Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, working with commercial grade LTE Base Station and device prototypes in China. This is an important [...]

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When will we see an LTE iPhone 4G?  2010 or sooner? iPhonAsia comment: LongTerm Evolution (LTE) 4G technology in a new iPhone could mean insanely fast speeds … as high as 150Mbps download and upload speeds as high as 50Mbps … about 100x more bandwidth (much faster) than most 3G networks.  LTE networks are not that [...]

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           Alcatel-Lucent and NEC to cooperate on 4G technology     Alcatel-Lucent and NEC will form a joint venture that will focus on Long Term Evolution, a major 4G technology, and the former plans to set up a research center in Shanghai for the 4G technology that will be compatible with China’s own 3G [...]

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            Message Board Thread re China Mobile announcing support for Long Term Evolution (LTE) 4G protocol and forthcoming iPhone launch in China. [idannyb reply] Re: Maybe there never will be a 3G phone…. << An iPhone launch in China in “early 09″ would be another example of Apple’s failed international rollout. Very disappointing!!!!!! [...]

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