Huawei

Shares in mobile kit vendor Alcatel-Lucent jumped as much as 16 percent amid speculation that the firm could be bought by a Chinese rival, reports Reuters.

T-Mobile and Huawei have teamed up to offer what is being dubbed as the world's first pay-as-you-go (prepay) Android smartphone.

Dow Jones Newswires reports that Huawei has said it isn’t in talks with Franco-US telecommunications equipment company Alcatel-Lucent to form an alliance.

LG - the world's third-largest mobile manufacturer - has become the latest major handset vendor to unveil an Android-powered smartphone.

Cellular News notes that Huawei claims to have shipped over 60 million mobile broadband units worldwide, including data cards, dongles and embedded modules, across more than 133 countries.

Industry group the VoLGA (Voice over LTE via Generic Access) Forum today published its first complete set of approved specifications aimed at delivering mobile voice and SMS services over future LTE networks. The move is important as there is currently no single agreed way of providing voice and SMS capability on next-generation LTE networks.

Chinese equipment vendor Huawei is to commercially launch a new HSPA+ solution next year offering theoretical download speeds of up to 56Mb/s.