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You may have heard that AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Discover and Barclay’s have formed a joint-venture called Isis to boost mobile payments through NFC technology but what does that really mean for you? Well, friends, we spoke with Isis today about how it could be different this time and about how your phone may finally become…
Never before in the history of man have companies paid so much for what amounts to absolutely nothing but thin air. Spectrum, the invisible gold of our time, is a precious and limited asset needed by mobile operators to beam their signals into your home, onto the streets, and alongside the roads you drive on,…
My lovely home town, Los Angeles, is going to be covered with Sprint WiMax goodness by December 1. So to all my friends and family back home, I say, “Awesome!” While most Angelenos are probably seeing pockets of WiMax coverage here and there already, the official launch should see more stable and perhaps wider coverage…
Amdocs, a company you’ve probably never heard that’s used throughout the world by top tier operators as their customer billing backend, surveyed 30 wireless operators and asked them how data usage is impacting their network. An astonishing 60% said that they’re experiencing data congestion, that is there are frankly too many bits in the air…
Analyst firm Juniper Research is predicting that with all the LTE networks launching around the world, revenues coming in from the new high speed cellular networking technology will reach $100 billion by the year 2014. They also say that a majority of that revenue will come from enterprise laptop and tablet users, and that consumer…
Japanese operator DOCOMO is set to launch their LTE service, dubbed “Xi”, on the 24th of December. It’s unusual because traditionally the small island nation has always been the first to adopt the latest in networking technologies, launching 3G when European and American mobile phones were only starting to get color screens. Now Sweden, Norway,…
Verizon Wireless is in final preparations to launch their LTE network by the end of this month. With speeds that are supposed to reach up to 12 Mbps on the download, as well as ultra low latency so websites pop up like magic, this is going to be the first major cellular network upgrade to…
Last night, T-Mobile taught us the difference between 4G the technology, and “4G” the marketing term. The former actually means something in mobile technology, and is clearly defined by the International Telecommunications Union. The latter is the term you use when you need to entice more users to flock to your network by offering negligible…
Operators all around the world are either testing LTE, rolling it out, or have it already running. Sweden was the first country in the world to get an LTE network, all the way back in December 2009, courtesy of local operator TeliaSonera. The new wireless technology promises speeds of around 100 Mbps and ultra low…
Nokia Siemens Networks has teamed up with Ciqual and is now offering a new service for operators using their infrastructure equipment called “Mobile Quality Analyzer (MQA) for Mobile Broadband“. It’s a simple application that people have to install on their computer and then the data on the performance of their connection, both in terms of…