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Chinese infrastructure firm Huawei is looking to give the city of London a wireless network worth $80 million that’s to be installed in the Underground Tube system just in time for the 2012 olympics. According to the Sunday Times Huawei views this as a gift from one olympic country to the other, and that they…
Verizon has just announced that they’ve launched LTE in Detroit Rock City. This is an important announcement because it’s the first time Verizon has officially said anything about coverage expanding on their brand spanking new 4G LTE wireless network. “Our advanced technology is changing the way we all work and play. Today, it gives us…
Make no mistake about it, when Clearwire launched their WiMAX network in America they took a huge gamble at adopting a technology that many in the industry thought wasn’t going to go anywhere, all for the sake of wanting to label themselves as having a “4G” network. Sadly, more like inevitably really, WiMAX is beginning…
After setting up plans over the summer, Telus has announced that their dual-cell HSPA+ network will be launching in March and offering speeds up to 42 Mbps. They’re pulling a T-Mobile by calling HSPA+ 4G, and if they reserved it solely for the network at 42 Mbps, I could have let it slide, but Telus…
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo have announced that they’ve received permission from the Kanto Bureau of Telecommunications and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to start testing LTE Advanced in a real world environment and will be doing so in the cities of Yokosuka and Sagamihara. They’ve already hit download speeds as high as 1…
Canadian service provider Wind Mobile announced that they’re on their way to 4G after finishing their first LTE trial, and to put some icing on the cake, they’ll be busting out HD Voice like they’ve got in the UK. Wind Mobile’s LTE trials averaged speeds of 50-60 Mbps, which isn’t bad at all, while HD…
Infrastructure partner Ericsson has announced that with the help of Singapore service provider, SingTel, they’ve hit data speeds of 168 Mbps downlink and 24 Mbps uplink on a multi-carrier HSPA network. While that might be a ways off to any commercial deployment, Ericsson also completed dual-carrier HSPA, striking speeds up to 84 Mbps (a speed…
With all the major carriers beating their chests about their respective 4G networks, let’s not forget that MetroPCS has a super high speed broadband network of its own. Today, MetroPCS announced that it has added 4G LTE coverage in four new cities: Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami and Orlando. All you folks in the big cities down…
When T-Mobile USA decided to label their 21 Mbps HSPA+ network as “4G”, we were a little disappointed. At the time the International Telecommunications Union, the ITU, said that 4G was defined as a network technology that could pump 100 Mbps down to your handset. At least T-Mobile was somewhat closer to that elusive goal…
In another sign that the mobile space is going to be the future of reporting, Reuters is reporting AMD CEO Dirk Meyer is departing because the board wasn’t happy with his vision for the chip maker in the increasingly-competitive mobile segments. AMD CEO Dirk Meyer resigned a few days ago and reports are surfacing that…