4G Americas Elects Cisco to Its Board of Governors

4G Americas Elects Cisco to Its Board of Governors

BELLEVUE, WA — (Marketwired) — 05/20/13 — 4G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the 3GPP family of technologies, today announced the election of to its Board of Governors. Cisco joins the Board — currently comprised of 18 leading operators and manufacturers — to work together to promote, facilitate and advocate for the deployment and adoption of 3GPP mobile broadband technologies throughout the Americas.Chris Pearson, President of 4G Americas, welcomed Cisco-s el

4G Americas Elects Mavenir Systems to Its Board of Governors

4G Americas Elects Mavenir Systems to Its Board of Governors

BELLEVUE, WA — (Marketwire) — 03/27/13 — 4G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the 3GPP family of technologies, today announced the election of Mavenir Systems, a leading provider of software-based networking solutions, to its Board of Governors. Mavenir joins the 17 operators and manufacturers currently on the Board to work together to promote, facilitate and advocate for the deployment and adoption of 3GPP mobile broadband technologies throughout the Americas.Chri

Year-End 2012: 50 Percent Growth in Mobile Broadband in the Americas

Year-End 2012: 50 Percent Growth in Mobile Broadband in the Americas

BELLEVUE, WA — (Marketwire) — 03/07/13 — 4G Americas, a wireless trade association representing the 3GPP family of technologies, today announced that subscriptions to 3GPP mobile broadband technologies (HSPA and LTE) grew to 274 million connections in one year ending December 2012, based on data from Informa Telecoms & Media."3GPP mobile broadband subscriptions grew 50 percent year-over-year to end-2012 and now account for 32 percent of all 3GPP subscriptions in the Americas,"

LTE and HSPA+ Boosting Mobile Broadband Adoption in Latin America

LTE and HSPA+ Boosting Mobile Broadband Adoption in Latin America

BELLEVUE, WA — (Marketwire) — 02/21/13 — "While the first four commercial LTE deployments in Latin America and the Caribbean took place at the end of 2011, there are 14 commercial LTE networks in nine countries today," said Erasmo Rojas, Director of Latin America and the Caribbean at industry association 4G Americas. "These LTE networks, coupled with 51 commercial HSPA+ mobile broadband networks in the region, reflect hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in the econom