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According to Informa Telecoms & Media a historial moment has been reached in the wireless space with femtocells outnumbering macrocells for the first time in the United States. Now what exactly does that mean? The word macrocell is just a fancy way of saying cell tower. Conservative estimates put the number of cell towers in…
WiMAX, the red headed stepchild of the wireless industry, scored some “major” wins today in two of the most unexpected place. First win: New Jersey, where the traffic authority has decided to roll out 100 WiMAX towers using the 4.9 GHz spectrum over 360 miles of highway that will be used for things like sending…
Strategy Analytics, an analyst firm that keeps a running tally of how everyone is doing in the mobile industry in terms of unit shipments, took out their abacus, punched some numbers, and found that 77 million smartphones shipped during the third quarter of this year. That’s up 78% compared to last year. The biggest “winner”…
Google Voice Search, one of the best features built into every Android phone running version 2.0 or higher, has solely been the domain of English, French and Chinese speaking users for quite a while. There may be one or two more languages it can handle, but I’m not too sure. Anyway, today Google is happy…
Scientists have recently been looking at human communication patterns to see if they can identify trends that speak to how society is adopting technology. Often people think that a new social network or other such service is going to change human behavior, but soon reality sets in that people simply use new methods of contacting…
Two press releases were issued right after Nokia published their Q3 2010 financial results, and there’s some good and bad news. Let’s start with the bad. Around 1,800 jobs will be eliminated, mainly from the teams working on Symbian smartphones and the folks working on Ovi services. It’s not mentioned how many will be cut…
A survey commissioned by dotMobi, the people who are trying to push the world to register URLs that end in .mobi so that users know that a specific site is going to work properly on their mobile phone, has found that the amount of mobile websites has increased from 150,000 in 2008 to 3.01 million…
Nokia has just posted their Q3 2010 financial results and while they’re not as bad as people thought they’d be, they’re still a little bit full of hurt. On 10.3 billion EUR worth of revenue, up 5% compared to last year, the company made 403 million EUR, which is fantastic considering the same quarter last…
In a report published by Openwave, they analyzed the data usage on an unnamed operator that is the 2nd largest provider in the country they’re in and has over 30 million subscribers. With little surprise, they discovered that roughly 2.5% of those 30 million people generator about 70% of the traffic buzzing through the sky.…
AT&T Senior Vice President of Architecture and Planning Kris Rinne recently shed some light on the operator’s LTE plans at the “4G World” conference currently taking place in Chicago. First thing to note is that AT&T will be using both the 700 MHz frequency and AWS bands to deploy their next generation network. That’s a…