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After setting up plans over the summer, Telus has announced that their dual-cell HSPA+ network will be launching in March and offering speeds up to 42 Mbps. They’re pulling a T-Mobile by calling HSPA+ 4G, and if they reserved it solely for the network at 42 Mbps, I could have let it slide, but Telus…
On Monday, Alcatel-Lucent introduced lightRadio, a new architecture for cellular hardware that promises to lower energy costs, improve bandwidth capabilities and simplify the process of building out a cellular network. Currently, each cell phone tower includes a set of large antennas at the top of the tower and a trailer at the base of the…
AT&T has laid out the plans for its mobile hotspot app and it said that the service will be available with the HTC Inspire 4G. That’s not all though, if you’re already using your iPhone or other device to tether, you’ll get an extra 2 GB of data for that plan for free. You still…
Its market share may have succumbed to Android recently, but iOS still manages to eat up two percent of the world’s total web traffic according to Net Applications. Apple’s mobile operating system is surpassed only by Windows and its very own Mac OSX for global web traffic rankings. According to the survey, Windows takes up…
ZyXel has just introduced a mobile router which will be competing against the Novatel MiFi but ZyXel takes it up a notch by also being able to work with wired connections. The ZyXel 3G mobile router is called the MWR211 and it can use a mobile data connection to create a WiFi hotspot for an…
Nielsen and Yahoo conducted a survey that revealed 86% of mobile phone owners use the internet on their handset while watching TV. If they are not opening an application, then mobile phones owners are browsing the internet or checking out the latest Facebook and Twitter status updates. The study queried over 8,000 users between the ages…
Yeah, we’re still clamoring for 4G LTE but a recent tech demonstration out of Korea shows that the next-next generation of mobile broadband will be crazy fast. A recent test of LTE-Advanced showed this technology can get up to 600 Mbps. If you don’t know, LTE-Advanced is the next generation of mobile broadband after Long-Term…
It looks like we may get some more competition in the mobil broadband space, as the FCC is reportedly set to approve the LightSquared 4G LTE network. Unlike other mobile operators, the LightSquared 4G LTE network will use satellite networks instead of the normal airwaves and some carriers objected to this because satellite spectrum is…
With all the major carriers beating their chests about their respective 4G networks, let’s not forget that MetroPCS has a super high speed broadband network of its own. Today, MetroPCS announced that it has added 4G LTE coverage in four new cities: Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami and Orlando. All you folks in the big cities down…
It seems like January 23 is a big day for AT&T. That’s the day when its trade-in program starts and its new text messaging plans commence. It’s also the day when AT&T will offer free MicroCells to its top 7.5% of customers who may have horrible building coverage. While it doesn’t seem fair that such…