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I guess Rogers, Bell, Telus, Fido, Koodo, Virgin Mobile, Wind Mobile, Mobilicity, and Public Mobile just weren’t enough to cover Canada, because Quebecor’s Videotron has just launched their wireless network in our French-speaking province, running on the same AWS bands as Wind Mobile and T-Mobile south of the border. The home networks currently cover Quebec…
AT&T is surely delighting New York City users as coverage has gradually improved over the last few months with an 850 overlay. The 850MHz band employed by AT&T is now being used for 3G data transmission, and this is important because that particular frequency travels farther and penetrates buildings a whole lot better than what…
CenterNet and Mobyland, two Polish operators, have just announced that they’ve launched an LTE network using 20 MHz of spectrum on the 1800 MHz band according to LTE World. By the end of this year an estimated 700 cell towers will be covering over 7 million people with mobile broadband that achieves as much as…
TeliaSonera is the world’s first operator to launch a commercial LTE network, turning on the high speed wireless technology in both the city of Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway simultaneously in December 2009. Since then all eyes have been on them to see what the technology can do, and how receptive customers are to the…
Vodafone Germany has announced how they’re going to price their upcoming LTE service, due to launch later this month according to LTE World. For 40 EUR per month consumers will get capped at a maximum download speed of 7.2 Mbps and the ability to download 10 GB of data. An additional 10 EUR gives customers…
Yota, one of the first operators in the world to launch a network based on WiMAX technology, has dumped the Intel backed standard in favor of LTE, which has recently gained global acceptance by over 100 operators according to the GSA. Their first network covers the 3rd largest city in Russia, Kazan, and it’s over…
LightSquared, who in an earlier article I jokingly called an idea scribbled on the back of a bar napkin, plans on taking on every operator in America by offering an LTE network that will use the MVNO business model, and according to documents seen by Bloomberg that plan will begin executing in 9 markets in…
Sprint, who owns 54% of Clearwire, is having problems finding the money to finish building their WiMAX network and are thinking of letting T-Mobile become a partner according to The Wall Street Journal. It doesn’t help that Sprint’s current 4G strategy is to offer a technology that no one really wants, and then admit that…
Sierra Wireless has just announced the world’s first dual channel HSPA+ modem, the AirCard 312U. It’s going to be sold in Australia as the “Telstra Ultimate USB modem“, which is just about the most bad ass name you can call a laptop accessory. Telstra, as far as I’m aware, is the only operator in the…
Nokia Siemens Networks, the joint venture between one of Europe’s largest mobile technology companies, and one of the world’s largest producer of just about anything that runs on electricity, have confirmed that they’re looking for around $1 billion of capital from investment firms and that they’ve seen interest from Blackstone, TPG Capital and Bain Capital,…