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TeliaSonera was the first operator in the world to launch a 4G LTE network. We’re talking December 2009 here, a full year before Verizon turned on their 4G LTE network. Now most people accessing said ridiculously high speed network have thus far been doing it via USB modems, but that’s just officially changed. TeliaSonera has…
Dish Network, who most of us consider to be a budget satellite television provider in the United States, sits on 40 MHz worth of spectrum in the 2 GHz band. Said spectrum comes with a restriction however, it has to be used for a satellite based network. Dish sent a letter to the FCC in…
The big story coming out of Mobile World Congress 2012 is the launch of multiple phones with the quad-core Tegra chipset made by NVIDIA. Consumers may see “quad-core” and immediately think it’s much better than a dual core but Qualcomm is saying that it’s more complicated than that. While it has its own quad-core chips…
Nokia Siemens Networks, who isn’t exactly a market leader in terms of the amount of revenues involved in the mobile infrastructure game, is widely respected as being a leader when it comes to research and development. They just demonstrated a 1.4 gigabit per second connection using LTE-Advanced and 100 MHz worth of spectrum. As impressive…
We know that T-Mobile plans to launch a 4G LTE network in 2013 and the company offered some more details on the next step in its mobile data network. Will it be able to keep up with AT&T, Sprint and Verizon when it comes to 4G LTE? T-Mobile certainly thinks so and CEO Philip said…
T-Mobile USA has just posted their Q4 2012 finical results. We’re not going to bore you with all the details, except to say that these guys lost over 800,000 subscribers and they’re blaming the iPhone for that. They really are the last operator on the face of the planet to not offer their subscribers Apple’s…
Despite Nokia Siemens Networks laying off 17,000 employees, that doesn’t mean that the company has stopped innovating. Today they’ve announced that they’re going to perform the world’s first public demo of HSPA+ Multiflow at Mobile World Congress later this month. So what the hell is it and why should you care? Right now your smartphone…
Verizon Wireless is in perfect standing when it comes to any spectrum concerns, according to comments from CEO Dan Mead. Mead said the company doesn’t need to refarm any spectrum being used for its 2G and CDMA EV-DO networks for LTE services. This could be some good reassurance for those who have valid concerns, especially…
Back in May 2010 we reported that the European Commission came to the decision that operators across the continent should use the 800 MHz band to provide mobile broadband. It took almost two years, but the European Commission is now saying that countries are required to open up the 800 MHz band by January 1,…
Cisco, the guys who make the infrastructure equipment that delivered all the illegal torrents currently sitting on your hard drive, just published their annual “Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update“. It’s something they like to put out there to freak ISPs and operators out so that they spend more money expanding their network. There are…