CTIA Update: Day Two at CTIA

LAS VEGAS -- International CTIA WIRELESS 2010 -- It's Day Two of the big wireless industry event in the U.S. Here's our handy guide for what's been going on at the show and elsewhere:

• Sprint goes supersonic. Well, the headline says it all: Sprint Launches 3G/4G Android Phone. Sprint's new supersmart phone is officially the belle of the ball here at CTIA.
  
  
• Verizon preps LTE user trials. Verizon says it will start friendly user trials on its Long Term Evolution network in six markets this summer, reports Reuters.
  
  
• Mobile data surpasses voice traffic. In case you didn’t realize it, there's a veritable data deluge on mobile networks. Now, there is more data than voice traffic on wireless networks, according to Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC) research.
  
  
• WiMax beats 3G. Clearwire LLC (Nasdaq: CLWR) and Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S) talked up faster download speeds for iPhone and iPad users on their 4G networks with their new Clear Spot and Overdrive WiFi/WiMax routers.
  
  
• Deutsche Telekom plots iTunes rival. The German parent of T-Mobile is building a content store that would deliver any content to any device that would be available by the end of the year, according to a report in the Financial Times Deutschland.
  
  

Here are three things you should see at today's show:

• Deutsche Telekom's René Obermann keynote. CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT) is on deck for this morning's keynotes. Perhaps he'll reveal plans for the new content store. Also on stage are Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S) CEO Dan Hesse; Clearwire CEO William Morrow; and Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) CTO Padmasree Warrior. And if you're not in Vegas, then check out the live Webcasts of the keynotes here.
  
  
• Policy Control conference. Be sure to check out Light Reading's conference, Policy Control, DPI, and the Mobile Packet Core, today at the convention center in room N261.
  
  
• Voice-over-LTE demo. Nokia Networks and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea: SEC) are showing voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) calls using 700MHz spectrum.
  
  

Here's a sampling of all the other hot CTIA news so far:

• SaskTel Picks Huawei
• AT&T Puts iPhone to Work
• Qualcomm, ZTE Do CDMA2000 Femtos
• Amdocs Buys MX Telecom
• Mindspeed LTE Chips Go to Vegas
• AlcaLu Opens Up Mobile Wallet
• Tellabs Touts Smart GGSN
• Netgem Unveils IPTV iPhone App

— Michelle Donegan, European Editor, Light Reading Mobile