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The European Union, like the United States, is taking spectrum that was once allocated for television broadcasts and letting operators use it to deploy advanced wireless networks. The US already had their 700 MHz auction almost 2.5 years ago, with Verizon declared the victor, but the EU is a bit more complicated with each nation…
Chinese firm ZTE has announced that it has signed agreements with five major American technology companies (Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Freescale, ALTERA, and Broadcom) that total roughly $3 billion over the next three years. This commitment to American companies is one way the Chinese are trying to penetrate the market and ease concerns that some government…
According to Informa Telecoms & Media a historial moment has been reached in the wireless space with femtocells outnumbering macrocells for the first time in the United States. Now what exactly does that mean? The word macrocell is just a fancy way of saying cell tower. Conservative estimates put the number of cell towers in…
WiMAX, the red headed stepchild of the wireless industry, scored some “major” wins today in two of the most unexpected place. First win: New Jersey, where the traffic authority has decided to roll out 100 WiMAX towers using the 4.9 GHz spectrum over 360 miles of highway that will be used for things like sending…
AT&T is really looking to beef up its network and is getting ready for LTE. Of course, before that happens, it still has a bit of work to do in terms of deploying HSPA+ and getting its promised 250 million pops covered before the year’s end. There are plenty of areas that still don’t see…
No-contract service provider Mobilicity has been hiding out in Toronto since it launched last spring, but it looks like next month they’re about to pounce. After talking with them today, their regional network will spread here to Ottawa with 20 points of distribution in November, as well as Vancouver and Edmonton later in the month.…
In a report published by Openwave, they analyzed the data usage on an unnamed operator that is the 2nd largest provider in the country they’re in and has over 30 million subscribers. With little surprise, they discovered that roughly 2.5% of those 30 million people generator about 70% of the traffic buzzing through the sky.…
AT&T Senior Vice President of Architecture and Planning Kris Rinne recently shed some light on the operator’s LTE plans at the “4G World” conference currently taking place in Chicago. First thing to note is that AT&T will be using both the 700 MHz frequency and AWS bands to deploy their next generation network. That’s a…
Clearwire has reached some pretty astonishing download speeds in its most recent LTE tests. The service company hit 90Mbps download speeds in Phoenix, which leaves me wondering what the future of WiMax, or even WiMax 2 will be. Right now, Clearwire offers WiMax which usually averages around 3-6Mbps with peaks of up to around 9Mbps…
Nokia Siemens Networks, who supplies infrastructure equipment to operators around the world, but is sadly not the number one vendor, and Qualcomm, who makes chips that enable hardware manufacturers to make devices ranging from cheap feature phones to some of the most advanced smartphones on the planet, are teaming together to show the wireless industry…