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In a move that’s unheard of in the developed world, T-Mobile USA has launched their first solar powered cell tower in Chalfont, Pennsylvania. Details are scant, but what we do know is that it’s powered by 12 solar panels and is completely self sufficient. When network demand isn’t that strong it even feeds power back…
Verizon announced today that it was going to adopt tiered pricing plans within the next four to six months. Earlier this year, AT&T did the same with its new DataPlus and DataPro plans, limit data usage to either 250MB or 2GB depending on the package. Finally, yesterday, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said that while there…
The video above shows Huawei, one of the world’s leading infrastructure providers, delivering over 20 megabit per second speeds over LTE technology while on a train going over 250 miles per hour. It can be done, and it’s something that we’re desperately waiting for here in Europe and I’m sure in the United States as…
South Korean operator SK Telecom, who used to have a presence in the United States back when the Helio brand still existed, has confirmed to Reuters that they’re in talks with Harbinger Capital Partners to possibly invest in their upcoming LTE network known today as “LightSquared“. Philip Falcone, the head of Harbinger, is looking to…
Bernie McMonagle, a Verizon Senior Federal Sales Executive, was giving a talk in Bethesda, Maryland and of course the topic of LTE was brought up. Much of what he said isn’t new, but it’s nice to hear reassurances that all is going well. We’ve known for a long time that Verizon’s goal was to launch…
Ofcom, the name of the regulatory body that’s similar in nature to the FCC in the United States, is tired of getting customer complaints about actual download speeds being no where near advertised download speeds when using mobile broadband. They’ve hired Epitiro, a broadband testing company, to do some field work and see how 3,…
Normally when there’s talk of an operator joining forces with the government the context is usually negative such as tracking suspected terrorists without a warrant or highlighting the past location of someone who is on trial for some heinous crime, but what if the government and mobile operators actually did something useful together? NTT DoCoMo,…
In a survey commissioned by Nokia Siemens Networks, one of the world’s largest provider of telecommunications infrastructure equipment, especially after their purchase of Motorola’s Networking division earlier this summer, the company found that “in mature markets, where mobile broadband and smartphones have recently taken off, customer loyalty is lowest”. The 20,000 people that were interviewed,…
Let’s get jargon out of the way: femtocells are devices that operators typically sell to consumers so that they can not only get better reception in their house, say if they’re living on the edge of the network, but to also offload traffic for people who are actually trying to use the mobile network while…
The European Union, of which 27 countries are currently enjoying both the benefits and disadvantages of globalization, is proposing that all member states should set aside the 800 MHz band for an EU wide mobile broadband network. Each country will have until January 1, 2013 to comply. Whether or not they’ll be a mega network…