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Say ZTE to anyone working in the mobile industry and those 3 letter conjure up images of Chinese spies building backdoors into their infrastructure equipment so they can gain access to confidential data, that or some really low end feature phone or smartphone that has questionable build quality, and yet competes with devices from other…
Sprint is one of the two major American operators to use CDMA technology to power their cellular network; the other is Verizon. There’s nothing wrong with CDMA since it does voice and SMS just fine, but now that high speed data networks are all the rage it’s time to explore some different options. Sprint decided…
With all four of America’s largest operators cranking the 4G marketing machine to 11, you’ve got to wonder who can actually deliver the goods and who is just throwing money away on ads that could be better spent on actually, you know, delivering 4G? The folks at PC World, in conjunction with Novarum, have performed…
TeliaSonera rocked the world in December 2009 when they became the first wireless operator to launch a commercial LTE network. Coverage was limited to central Stockholm and Oslo, but since going live their coverage map has greatly expanded. Initial benchmarks showed them delivering speeds at over 30 Mbps on average and peaking at around 80…
China Mobile, the largest operator in the world based on number on subscribers, something to the tune of 584 million people as of December of last year, has said that they’re planning to test TD-LTE in the cities of Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen and Beijing over the course of this year. They hope…
Building a wireless network isn’t easy. You need to purchase spectrum from the government, get a sizable loan from the bank, go to an infrastructure provider like Ericsson or Nokia Siemens networks and sign some contracts, and then you need to start all sorts of advertising campaigns and may even have to open up a…
When you were a child you probably played with Lego bricks and constructed small scale versions of cities you dreamed of visiting one day as an adult. Some of you also played SimCity and did the same thing. Whatever method you went about creating your fantasy metropolis, that urge to build, plan, and organize an…
Sprint is America’s third largest operator and one of the few who still uses CDMA technology for voice and data. Several years ago, when it came time to think up a 4G strategy, instead of waiting for the LTE standard to become finalized they decided to back WiMAX. Hindsight is 20/20 and we know now…
Irish internet service provider Imagine is suing Motorola for roughly 90 million Euros for failing their contractual obligations. Motorola was supposed to erect 234 WiMAX base stations by the end of 2010, yet today there are only 125 up and running. Motorola is saying that after they got bought out by Nokia Siemens Networks it…
If you pride yourself on being the nation’s largest and most reliable network, you’d think that connecting and sustaining emergency calls would be a no-brainer. However, Verizon dropped about 10,000 911 calls during a January 26 snow storm in Washington, D.C. The FCC now wants a detailed report from Verizon regarding the incident and why…