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Telkom South Africa has launched a new mobile network dubbed “8ta” that currently has 800 HSPA cell towers up and running with plans to quadruple that number relatively soon. Now while many of our readers don’t come from South Africa, how operators charge for their services is a subject that has fascinated me for quite…
Clearwire has a ton of spectrum and is said to either be selling some of it or looking for equity partners. With the talk of spectrum auction, Verizon was named as a potential buyer, but the company is openly denying it. After all, it seems that Verizon already has big plans for its own LTE…
When it comes to naming all the various flavors of 3G technology, and knowing what they’re all capable of, you really need a pocket guide otherwise you’d go a little nuts. For the sake of shortness, let’s just say that the fastest speeds achievable by 3G today hovers around 42 Mbps. This uses a technology…
Nokia Siemens Networks has been getting a lot of heat for selling Iran hardware and software that enables the monitoring of people’s conversations. This type of technology is mandatory in many countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, but many don’t know that, so when they heard what NSN was doing … they…
Verizon’s not the only one talking up LTE today. Rogers has announced that they have been doing 4G LTE trials with Ericsson here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and will be moving to a technical trial “on both low and high band frequencies”. Speeds will go up to 150 Mbps, but of course that’s only the…
Last month I wrote about T-Mobile USA putting up their first solar powered cell tower. They did it to see how practical it would be to have one of these in the actual field, and to boost their image with Toyota Prius drivers who drink soya milk. The only problem, and I do mean only,…
LightSquared, the wireless broadband and satellite company, has just announced that it closed on $850 million of debt and brings its total equity to $2 billion. Now, LightSquared wants to build its own 4G or LTE network to sell wholesale. The plan is not to sell it average consumers like you and me, but to…
Japan’s UQ Communications is showing off a demo of Samsung’s WiMAX 2 technology at a local trade show and is achieving download speeds of roughly 330 Mbps. That’s bananas, but it also seems like a waste, much like Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), the standard that Qualcomm was developing as a competitor to LTE until they…
AT&T and T-Mobile are striking up a deal with Transit Wireless to get cell service in New York City subways as part of the city’s continuing effort to expand wireless connectivity. There is free Wi-Fi in places like Times Square, AT&T has been boosting its network strength, Wi-Fi is said to be coming to more…
MetroPCS, one of America’s smaller operators, and one who until now has been using CDMA technology, has launched LTE in the Dallas Forth Worth Texas area. It becomes the second market in the United States to get the next generation of mobile broadband, the first being Las Vegas. Now while LTE sounds cool, and trust…