CTIA Update: Day Three at CTIA

LAS VEGAS -- International CTIA WIRELESS 2010 -- It's Day Three at CTIA. If you've made it this far and you're brain isn't completely fried from all of the week's revelations and revelries, here's what's been going on in wireless in the last 24 hours:

• Verizon adds LTE suppliers. Verizon has invited some new suppliers to dine at its LTE table for policy control and backhaul. (See CTIA 2010: Verizon Picks AlcaLu for LTE Backhaul.)
  
  
• Sprint bangs the drum for WiMax. In yesterday's keynote action, Sprint's CEO said mobile WiMax is still the right choice for the carrier, while Clearwire chief said all operators will be using the same 4G tech in the future. (See CTIA 2010: Hesse – LTE Will Be Bigger But We Are First.)
• Samsung's shows first LTE handset. Samsung says the SCH-r900 will be the first commercially available dualmode CDMA/LTE handset in the United States when MetroPCS launches it in the second half of this year. (See Samsung Unveils LTE Handset.)
  
  

Here is just one more thing you should see at today's show before you leave town:

• Femto Super Session. If you want to know more about AT&T's femtocell plans, then stop by this conference session that starts at 11:00 in the convention center, where Gordon Mansfield, AT&T's executive director for radio access network delivery, will be speaking.

With a lighter day of activities, we hope you'll find the time to catch up on all the other news that has broken in the mobile space during the past 24 hours:

• CTIA 2010: AT&T Femtos Go Commercial in April
• CTIA 2010: Adtran Stresses Backhaul Flexibility
• CTIA 2010: Verizon LTE Gets Friendly
• Verizon Backhauls With Fiber
• LR Survey Shows EPC Knowledge Gap
• Qwest Pulls Fiber to VZ LTE Sites
• OpenPeak, AT&T Team on Tablet
• AT&T Launches Mobile Music
• T-Mobile Ups 3G Stakes
• Airvana Claims 3G Faster on Femto

— Michelle Donegan, European Editor, Light Reading Mobile