Breaking news, information, and analysis on the latest mobile phones and mobile technology
When we first heard about LightSquared back in September 2010 it seemed a bit too good to be true. Was a hedge fund, tired of the state of the American wireless market, really going to rock the boat by building a high speed 4G LTE network that they would then resell to companies? Initial tests…
LightSquared, the wholesale operator run by a hedge fund who has yet to even turn on their 4G LTE network, has signed a 15 year deal with Sprint whereby “LightSquared and Sprint will jointly develop, deploy and operate LightSquared’s 4G LTE network” according to Harbinger Capital Partners, adding “Sprint will become a significant customer of…
Verizon Wireless, America’s largest operator, has just announced that they’ll be turning on 4G LTE coverage in 19 additional markets, including Dayton, Fresno, Hartford, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, and Spokane, starting tomorrow. That’s going to bring the total number of cities covered with 4G LTE up to 74. Verizon Wireless Chief Technology Officer…
You might have a Verizon 4G LTE smartphone in your pocket right now, or you may be rocking on T-Mobile’s 42 Mbps HSPA+ network, but for most folks around the world, roughly 4 billion of them, they’re still stuck using 2G technologies. Luckily for them Nokia Siemens Networks just conducted their first pre-commercial test call…
When people think of Nokia they think of a company that makes mobile phones, but they forget about Nokia Siemens Networks, the division of Nokia that is responsible for building the equipment that powers the wireless networks that mobile phones need to connect to so they can actually be useful. Nokia Siemens Networks has some…
Lightyear has just announced a five-year agreement with Sprint wherein it will provide service as an MVNO, or mobile virtual network operator. The upside for Lightyear is that it will have Sprint’s reliable network backing it, and access to a lot of the handsets that Sprint has to offer. The downside is that it will…
AT&T has just announced that it will launch LTE in five U.S. cities this summer: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. The announcement was made by AT&T Business Solutions President and CEO John Stankey during the Barclays Capital Global Communications, Media and Technology Conference. Finally, AT&T will have a true 4G network – none…
Everything Everywhere, the name of the combined networks of T-Mobile and Orange, has announced that they’re going to begin testing LTE in conjunction with British Telecom starting this September. One would think that it would be the major cities that are the first to get coverage, but that isn’t the case here. Trials will take…
There’s a term in the mobile industry called “hollow operator” that’s used to describe what happens when an operator agrees to let an infrastructure supplier build and manage their network. The operator still calls the shots in terms of dictating which markets get coverage and what sort of performance they should be offering to customers,…
Unlike 3G networks in America, with each operator opting to build out a network running on a different frequency, and in the case of Verizon and Sprint a different technology all together, in Europe the entire continent is blanketed with 2100 MHz high speed mobile broadband goodness. With new LTE networks rolling out however, that’s…