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Wonder why your Apple iPhone reception sucks in San Francisco? Most of us will (rightly) blame AT&T but Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the local governments should also get some of the blame. During the “Antennagate” press conference Friday, Jobs said it can be difficult to make network upgrades in certain markets. In Texas, it…
For all the guff AT&T gets about its mobile data usage in major cities, I’m pretty glad they have John Donovan as its Chief Technology Officer. Donovan’s an interesting cat. A self-proclaimed gadget freak, he carriers an HTC Android device (Aria?), a BlackBerry Bold, an iPhone 4, a Kindle, an iPad and other things. I’m…
It wasn’t that long ago where T-Mobile didn’t even have a 3G network but the fourth-largest carrier in the United States is now crowing about how its HSPA+ network can deliver “4G-like speed.” A leaked slide now suggests the company could thoroughly outpace rivals’ 4G networks, as T-Mobile may be aiming to deliver 42 Mbps…
Trash talk AT&T all you want, especially in New York City where service has a history of making people want to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, but things have actually gotten better. Back in November, the last time I was in the city before finally moving here, I couldn’t get service if my life depended…
The Wireless Broaband Alliance introduced a specification that could make it easier to seamlessly roam between mobile data networks and WiFi networks. The Wireless Internet Service Providers spec (WISPr 2.0) potentially could make it easy to roam from GSM, UMTS, WiMax and Long-Term Evolution networks to fixed ones. “Operators who create data plans across network…
Bandwidth. There just isn’t enough of it to go around given our demands, so Nokia is diving in head first to figure out a solution for all our mobile broadband woes. What the manufacturer has come up with is cognitive radio, or radio that is intelligent and adjusts and suits itself to current given spectrum…
T-Mobile is growing its HSPA+ with “4G-like speeds” shortly after announcing its Northeastern U.S. growth last month. The carrier is announcing that its super fast 3G data network will cover 25 major metropolitan areas and 75 million Americans by the end of this month. Since T-Mobile hasn’t jumped on the official 4G bandwagon (if you…
Finland has traditionally been a leader when it comes to mobile telecommunications. They were one of the first to go digital, and don’t even get me started about what Nokia did to the world in the 90s and 00s. So what about next generation LTE networks? Norway’s capital, Oslo, has LTE courtesy of TeliaSonera, and…
Want to make a mobile operator fall to their knees, cry, and curl up into the fetal position? Ask them how their network is doing after they started offering the iPhone. Thanks to Apple’s water into wine device we’ve seen the damage caused to the likes of AT&T, but what about across the pond? European…
Between today’s 3G networks and the next generation LTE and WiMAX networks that are going to start turning on over the next few years, there is a middle ground technology that provides users with the increased bandwidth users want, and at the same time is attractive to operators since in most cases it requires a…