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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) doles out wireless spectrum every few years using an auction process that anyone who has ever used eBay is already familiar with. Several of the FCC’s responsibilities are to make sure that the right people are allowed to join said auctions, that the wrong people are not allowed to participate,…
As operators around the world look to curb people’s data usage by rolling out confusing pricing plans or just simply raising their rates, things are going a little bit differently in Russia. MegaFon, the third largest operator in the country, recently held a contest whereby the person who could use the most amount of data…
Ever wonder why smartphones with 4G LTE connectivity have such terrible battery life? The answer is rather simple. While most phones usually have only one cellular radio on at the same time, devices using 4G LTE need to have two radios on simultaneously. One of those radios, the one that does that 4G LTE, can…
Japanese fixed line and mobile operator eAccess has just finished testing their soon to be launched 4G LTE network. What makes their 4G LTE special compared to say AT&T’s or Verizon’s 4G LTE is that eAccess is maxing out the technical capabilities of the LTE standard. They’re using 40 MHz worth of spectrum (2×20 MHz…
Dish Network, the budget satellite television company, sits on 40 MHz worth of spectrum in the 2 GHz band. They’ve already stated that they want to build an LTE-Advanced network using that spectrum, and now they’re just waiting to get the thumbs up from the FCC to go ahead and start building. Now we all…
The state of 4G LTE in Europe is pretty dismal compared to the United States, but that’s not really a bad thing since most 4G LTE equipped smartphones can’t seem to last more than a few hours under heavy use; the Droid RAZR MAxx is an exception. Anyway, today we’d like to highlight Vodafone’s new…
Nokia Siemens Networks, one of the world’s largest providers of the infrastructure equipment that enables our mobile phones to actually connect to the internet and do useful things, has just secured a 1.2 billion Euro loan according to Retuers. The goal was to raise 1.5 billion Euro, but “due to market turmoil”, which is a…
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has just agreed on the technologies that are deemed worthy enough to earn the “IMT-Advanced” designation: LTE-Advanced and WirelessMAN-Advanced, the latter being more widely known as WiMAX 2. They don’t want to call it 5G, but you can expect AT&T’s marketing department to already be in the process of drafting…
When Verizon launched their 4G LTE network back in late 2010 we wondered how long it would be until we saw the first 4G LTE smartphones hit their network? Three months later, in March 2011, we got our answer with the HTC Thunderbolt (pictured above, sans battery cover). Not long after that we were flooded…
Well, this didn’t take long. It was only a couple of days ago when Sprint gave LightSquared a 30-day extension as both companies await the fate of its 15-year agreement it struct this past summer, which the folks in Washington have yet to make a decision on (deadline was December 31st). Now, Sprint CEO Dan…