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Telecompaper reports that the three state-owned Chinese mobile operators, which were granted 3G licences in January, propose to make CNY450 billion (US$66 billion) investment in 3G services in the next two-and-a-half to three years, according to comments from minister of industry and information technology, Li Yizhong.

Huawei today announced that it has been selected by Grameenphone, a subsidiary of Telenor, to deploy Bangladesh' s first solar-powered base stations.

The European Commission said today it plans to fund research into LTE Advanced technology, a future enhancement of the forthcoming LTE network standard.

Japan's second-largest operator KDDI today revealed further plans for its launch of LTE networks, announcing Motorola and NEC as suppliers of radio access (base station) kit and declaring commercial availability by December 2012.

Bloomberg notes that China’s Huawei has garnered a 10 percent market share in Europe and expects to gain more ground this year.

NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology have again pushed back the signing of a planned merger agreement, reports Telecompaper.

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.