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Ofcom, think of them as the British version of the FCC, recently commissioned a study to find out what advantages 4G LTE offered compared to earlier 3G networks. Higher speed and lower latencies are something TeliaSonera users in Scandinavia and Verizon customers in America already know a thing or two about, with many going so…
Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei has been trying to enter the US market for ages, but America’s fear of the People’s Republic of China has kept them out of the market and has driven business to their main competitors: Nokia Siemens Networks, Alcatel Lucent, and the biggest of them all, Ericsson. No one has any issues…
With all the AT&T and T-Mobile hullabaloo, it’s easy to forget that the former is still planning on launching its LTE network this year. More specifically, the carrier plans on launching its 4G LTE network this summer – you know, the real 4G and none of this we-want-to-pretend-HSPA-plus-is-4G stuff. Hopefully we AT&T customers will start…
One of Canada’s young up-and-coming wireless service providers, Mobilicity, has recently expanded their network to include Calgary, Alberta. To kick things off, Mobilicity is offering the Nokia E73 and a the Samsung G-Touch (a TouchWiz messenger phone) for $149.99 and $139.99 off-contract. The Nokia E73 is a respectable handset for business types, especially for those…
Rogers, one of Canada’s “Big Three” carriers, today announced that their network would expand to LTE in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Montreal before the end of 2011, and expand to the rest of the country throughout another 21 markets in 2012. Rogers began technical trials back in October, and though Bell and Telus are going…
Last month, we learned that AT&T was sending messages to users who were tethering their devices using MyWi, an application that can allow the iPhone to be used as a mobile hotspot when the device is jailbroken, advising them to stop or adjust their data plans. It doesn’t seem like too many users were deterred…
Selling infrastructure gear is no easy task. Operators get to pick and choose who they want to build out their networks, and often go with different vendors for different parts of the network just so they can save some money. Fierce competition from the Far East players, we’re looking at you Huawei and ZTE, has…
The European Commission has ruled that EU countries must allow operators to use the spectrum they already own in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands to roll out 4G networks, in this case LTE or WiMAX. This is a fairly significant decision for multiple reasons. First, the LTE networks that are already live in…
As operators all around the light up their LTE networks we like to take note of just how fast they are and how much you have to pay to ride the high speed pony express. In Finland TeliaSonera launched an LTE network in November 2010. They price it at 46 Euros per month, no data…
Motorola and Huawei have been embroiled in a dispute over trade secrets and intellectual property that was spurred by Nokia Siemens Networks agreeing to buy out Motorola’s networking division. Huawei didn’t want NSN to gain access to all the work that they’ve done in collaboration with Motorola over the past 10+ years, which is understandable.…