Gerucht: iPhone zal ook 4g in Nederland ondersteunen

On 3 March 2009, Lithuania's LRTC announcing the first operational "4G" mobile WiMAX network in Baltic states.[44]
In December 2009, Sprint began advertising "4G" service in selected cities in the United States, despite average download speeds of only 3–6 Mbit/s with peak speeds of 10 Mbit/s (not available in all markets).[45]
On 14 December 2009, the first commercial LTE deployment was in the Scandinavian capitals Stockholm and Oslo by the Swedish-Finnish network operator TeliaSonera and its Norwegian brandname NetCom (Norway). TeliaSonera branded the network "4G". The modem devices on offer were manufactured by Samsung (dongle GT-B3710), and the network infrastructure created by Huawei (in Oslo) and Ericsson (in Stockholm). TeliaSonera plans to roll out nationwide LTE across Sweden, Norway and Finland.[46][47] TeliaSonera used spectral bandwidth of 10 MHz, and single-in-single-out, which should provide physical layer net bitrates of up to 50 Mbit/s downlink and 25 Mbit/s in the uplink. Introductory tests showed a TCP throughput of 42.8 Mbit/s downlink and 5.3 Mbit/s uplink in Stockholm.[48]
On 25 February 2010, Estonia's EMT opened LTE "4G" network working in test regime.[49]
On 4 June 2010, Sprint Nextel released the first WiMAX smartphone in the US, the HTC Evo 4G.[50]
In July 2010, Uzbekistan's MTS deployed LTE in Tashkent.[51]
On 25 August 2010, Latvia's LMT opened LTE "4G" network working in test regime 50% of territory.
On 6 December 2010, at the ITU World Radiocommunication Seminar 2010, the ITU stated that LTE, WiMax and similar "evolved 3G technologies" could be considered "4G".[2]
On 12 December 2010, VivaCell-MTS launches in Armenia 4G/LTE commercial test network with a live demo conducted in Yerevan.[52]
On 28 April 2011, Lithuania's Omnitel opened LTE "4G" network working in 5 biggest cities.[53]
In September 2011, All three Saudi telecom companies STC, Mobily and Zain announced that they will offer 4G LTE for high speed USB sticks for mobile computers, with further development for telephones by 2013.[54]
In 2011, Argentina´s Claro launch 4G HSPA+ network in the country.
In 2011, Thailand's Truemove-H launch 4G HSPA+ network with nation-wide availability.
On February 10, 2011, the Samsung galaxy indulge offered by MetroPCS is the first commercially available LTE smartphone[55][56]
On March 17, 2011, HTC ThunderBolt offered by Verizon in the U.S. was the second LTE smartphone to be sold commercially.[57][58]
On 31 January 2012, Thailand's AIS and its subsidiaries DPC under co-operative with CAT Telecom for 1800 MHz frequency band and TOT for 2300 MHz frequency band launch the first field trial LTE in Thailand by authorization from NBTC[59]
In February 2012, Ericsson demonstrated mobile-TV over LTE, utilizing the new eMBMS service (enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service).[60]
On 10 April 2012, Bharti Airtel launched 4G [LTE] in Kolkata, first in India which resulted India to be one of the first countries in the world to deploy the cutting edge technology commercially.[61]
On 20 May 2012, Azerbaijan's biggest mobile operator Azercell launched 4G [LTE].[62]

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