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The GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) has published a series of documents (registration required; it’s free!) detailing the HSPA and HSPA+ networks that are either deployed or are in the process of being deployed around the world, and the numbers are truly stagering. There are nearly 400 HSPA networks that are fully operational, 123 of…
Analysts at Ovum are taking a bold stand and declaring Long Term Evolution, or LTE in industry parlance, as an overhyped technology. “Only 11 percent of mobile broadband subscribers are going to be on LTE networks by 2015. Besides, LTE may not generate revenue growth,” said Matt Walker, an Ovum Analyst, at a recent press…
When WiMAX was first unveiled to the world it sounded absolutely extraordinary. It was going to be just like the WiFi we were all using in our laptops at the time, but with an insane amount of range and even faster data speeds. Intel was championing the technology and pitching it as a replacement to…
Sprint is expected to sign network-sharing deals with both LightSquared and Clearwire this month according to a Credit Suisse analyst. It’ll be an interesting move, especially with the prior tensions between Sprint and Clearwire, and of course it will spark more rumors for Sprint possibly ditching WiMax for LTE (though I highly doubt it). IB…
At the end of the first quarter of this year there were only 320,000 people using 4G LTE according to analysts at Maravedis. That number is going to swell to 305 million by 2016, and while it’s a bit reckless to make a prediction that goes 5 years into the future, we…
Chinese infrastructure firm Huawei has been getting a lot of heat from lawmakers in the US because of some paranoid delusions that there’s a plot by the Chinese military to spy on the communications of the American people. Back in 2008 Huawei lost a huge contract to Sprint for those reasons. It’s 2011 now and…
Not to beat a dead horse here, but the fact that AT&T is selling two 4G phones – or as Dan Hesse likes to call these phones and networks, “Faux-G” – without the actual benefits of a 4G network is maddening. Many are upset that their devices, the Motorola Atrix and HTC Inspire, are being…
This week at CTIA 2011 in Orlando, Verizon decided to give a handful of journalists a tour of its super switch facility – a hurricane-proof communications center that can survive a category five hurricane. The facility is 43,000 square feet and handles voice and data traffic in central Florida, but it can probably handle a…
The engineers at Nokia Siemens Networks have done something quite amazing. They squeezed 200 megabits per second (Mbps) out of an HSPA+ connection, something that was previously thought impossible. The HSPA+ standard, as it stands today, can only go up to 84 Mbps, and anything that goes faster has strictly been done in a laboratory…
AT&T made headlines today by announcing its acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom – a deal worth $39 billion. It was surprising because, for years, we’d all been hearing talk about Sprint either merging with or acquiring T-Mobile. Instead, AT&T picked up the nation’s fourth largest carrier along with a ton of spectrum and…