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Network infrastructure firm Ericsson is trying to let everyone know that this whole mobile thing is a big deal. So big in fact that the number of mobile broadband connections, which at the end of 2010 measured roughly 400 million, is set to double to over 1 billion by the end of 2011. Around 400…
America’s four largest operators have started claiming that they each have a 4G network, but do Americans actually know what that even means? Nielsen surveyed over 2,131 adults to find out if they could break beyond the hype, and the results are surprisingly not too shabby. Of all the people surveyed around 83% have heard…
Hot off the news that Clearwire is losing a chairman, we’re hearing that Sprint may pour in another $200 million to assume the WiMax company’s debt. According to Forbes, the move will allow Sprint to maintain its 50% stake in the company. If you don’t know, Clearwire provides the WiMax infrastructure that powers the Sprint…
Like it or not, HSPA+ can now officially be called a 4G technology after the International Telecommunications Union decided that the advanced 3G technology, along with LTE and WiMAX, can use the catchy marketing term when describing modern networks. Nokia Siemens Networks, one of the largest providers of infrastructure equipment next to Ericsson and Huawei,…
Sprint has lit up a good chunk of the country with WiMax, so it seems like the huge tech hub that is the San Francisco Bay Area is well behind when it comes to the official launch of the 4G network. But in a few days, that will all change. While a great deal of…
A few months ago Qualcomm’s foray into mobile TV was axed, and now they’re offloading spectrum in the lower 700 MHz range that they were using for Flo TV to AT&T for a cool $1.9 billion. What does AT&T plan to do with it? 4G, of course. Apparently this spectrum has the capability to cover…
With Verizon Wireless having officially turned on their brand spanking new LTE network, analyst firms are starting to predict just how much money the bleeding edge high speed mobile broadband technology is going to make operators. ABI Research estimates that by 2015 revenues from LTE will exceed $15 billion. That’s a terribly small number compared…
Juniper Research has released a new report that states operators are in a position to score over $200 billion in revenues from LTE services by 2015. If that sounds familiar to you then you’re an avid reader of our website, because a little over a month ago I published information about an earlier Juniper Research…
Broadcom has just introduced a new dual-core processor for mobile phones which it promises will deliver high-end experiences to low-cost Android phones. The Broadcom BCM2157 dual-core baseband processor promises to be more affordable than other chips in this class and it should come in at 500 MHz. This will also include support for 3G HSDPA…
The Federal Communications Commission has just released a report about the U.S. broadband market and it found that an astounding 68% of these offerings don’t even meet governmental agency’s description of what “broadband” is. Could 4G networks help solve this problem? In an 87-page report, the FCC said more than 2/3 of the services labeled…