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Hong Kong’s regulator allocated additional spectrum for the provision of public mobile services, a move it said would put the market at the forefront of adoption of advanced technologies including Licensed Assisted Access (LAA).

Verizon became the second US operator to confirm a shift in its unlicensed spectrum focus to Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) technology despite earlier pursuit of LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U).

Swedish equipment vendor Ericsson and US chipmaker Qualcomm combined licensed and unlicensed LTE spectrum to deliver a theoretical peak throughput rate of 300Mb/s in a demo in Beijing.

Japan’s NTT Docomo and China’s Huawei said today they have demonstrated that LTE can be deployed over unlicensed 5GHz spectrum — a breakthrough that could ultimately give operators complementary access to LTE bands to increase data speeds and cell capacity.