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Most people sit in one of three places at any given moment during a typical day: work, home, and their local café or bar. There’s little to no reason that said people should have to dip into their data plan while sitting in any of those places, but they end up using the cellular network…
AT&T has a 4G LTE network that uses the 700 MHz band. Verizon has a 4G LTE network that uses the 700 MHz band. Why is it then that AT&T’s 4G LTE subscribers can’t roam on Verizon’s 4G LTE network and vice versa? It’s technically possible, but the way the FCC sees it they want…
Two years ago a scrappy newcomer called LightSquared announced plans to revolutionize the American wireless industry. Their plan was simple: Build a nationwide 4G LTE network that other companies would then lease so they could sell access to consumers. Think of it this way, back in the 1990s there were hundres of internet service providers…
When AT&T announced they were going to buy T-Mobile, everyone freaked out. America needs more competition, not less, and apparently the government came to the same conclusion when they told AT&T to piss off and leave the nation’s fourth largest operator alone. Now AT&T was so confident that the deal would go through that they…
Canadians have mobile networks that are 4G LTE enabled, but said networks are using AWS spectrum, meaning spectrum in the 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz bands. There’s nothing wrong with AWS spectrum, but there’s something special about spectrum in the sub 1 GHz range. It penetrates walls easier, so you get better signal coverage inside…
Verizon Wireless was the first operator in the United States to launch a 4G LTE network. They did it back in December 2010, though we had to wait until March 2011 to be able to buy the first 4G LTE enabled smartphone, the HTC Thunderbolt. Since then Verizon’s been growing their network at a ridiculous…
There are two flavors of 4G LTE: FDD (frequency division duplex) and TDD (time division duplex). Without getting too technical, let’s just say that the former makes a lot more sense for operators who are already running a GSM network, whereas the latter isn’t expected to gain any widespread adoption outside China. Now Sprint entered…
Bad news for Verizon as the FCC formally announced its disapproval of the company’s potential $3.6 billion acquisition of spectrum from cable companies (Cox, Time Warner, Comcast, and Brighthouse). The feds want the largest cell phone provider in the United Sates to resend its filings because it feels the original filings submitted by Verizon Wireless…
A Philadelphia man drew some attention after he used a device acting as a kill switch on a public bus, nuking cell phone service for every rider. The best part about this story is the man’s explanation behind his usage of the cell phone jammer. He simply told the local news, that he didn’t want to…
AT&T has announced its plans to phase out the obsolete 2G network to improve its 3G service with a speedier technology known as HSPA+. The second largest cell phone company in the United States has worked at a rapid pace when it comes to bolstering its cell phone service on the 3G and 4G LTE…