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We just heard about who will be keynoting the upcoming CTIA Enterprise & Application show and it will be filled with bigwigs from Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Ford. Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam will kick things off on the first day (October 6) and he’ll be talking about the company’s 4G network based on Long-Term Evolution.…
Clearwire posted another bad quarter with a loss of more than $125 million but the 4G provider said it will be testing out Long-Term Evolution technology in a few markets. It’s not messing around either, as it claims it will provide speeds which are “unmatched” by any other carrier. The company, which is majority-owned by…
Telus just announced that they’re making a significant upgrade to their network which will include some HSPA+ technology only deployed on Australia’s Telstra network so far. They claim that using this new HSPA+ Dual Cell network, Telus will be able to achieve data speeds of up to 42 Mb/s. “Up to” are the key words…
Last month Nokia Siemens Networks purchased Motorola’s network assets for a cool $1.2 billion. Sources are telling Bloomberg that Chinese infrastructure supplier Huawei bid at least $100 million higher than that, but they were shot down due to fears that the American government would step in and kick the deal to the curb. Politics is…
In what could be extremely useful but also quite annoying, the New York subways will soon be getting full cellular and WiFi service. That’s right folks, you soon won’t be able to find any respite from other people’s conversations. The transportation agency responsible for the subways has just signed a deal with Transit Wireless, and…
Motorola will be using the 700 MHz spectrum to bring a 4G network based on Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology to San Francisco. The city of SF has tapped the wireless infrastructure arm of Motorola to build out the nation’s first LTE mobile broadband data network for use in public safety services. Before you San Franciscans…
Can you hear me now? If you were in parts of Manhattan yesterday, the answer may have been no as a Verizon equipment failure disrupted Big Red’s hardline services, as well as some of AT&T’s wireless services. According to the Wall Street Journal: A “digital cross-connect,” or a box that directs network traffic, was knocked…
AT&T is adding a few more cities to its Wi-Fi Hotzone Pilot Project as it continues to bring the joy of wireless Internet to the masses. This means AT&T customers will have plenty of coverage outdoors in certain areas where they just might need it most. The first city was New York City where AT&T…
Do you remember when AT&T was accused of throttling upload data speeds in New York City almost the instant someone discovered attenuated HSUPA speeds? The controversy spread across the web like a wildfire, but AT&T was quick to point out that its equipment partner, Alcatel-Lucent, was having some issues that was causing the defect. Both…
In a great show of cross-industry cooperation, Sprint said it has completed its mission of clearing up 35 MHz of broadcast auxiliary service spectrum across the nation. The move comes as the industry is facing a looming “< ahref="http://s06coeda4d.onrocket.site/2010/02/24/fcc-seeks-more-wireless-spectrum-for-mobile-broadband-data-networks/">spectrum crisis” – more and more consumers want to use mobile data services but the choke point…