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The UK Treasury hopes to raise as much as 3.5 billion GBP from the auction of 4G spectrum licenses early next year, chancellor George Osborne said in his autumn budget statement. British telecom regulator Ofcom put a 1.3 billion GBP reserve price on the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands last month, adding that companies wanting to…
SFR has become the first French operator to commercially launch LTE services with its network going live for consumers and businesses in Lyon. The rollout comes after summer tests which included some 400 SFR clients in the city. Montpellier will be the second city to have the network on December 18, with Lille, Marseille, Strasbourg…
If you live in Albuquerque, N.M., Reading, Penn., and Salt Lake City we have great news for you. AT&T this morning announced that it has flipped the LTE switch in those areas I’ve named. The second largest wireless provider in the United States is moving at a rapid pace with deploying its 4G LTE across the nation.…
VoLTE may promise digital-quality calling, but it may drain smartphone batteries at a rate that’s twice as fast as CDMA-based calls, says a study by Metrico Wireless that was first reported by GigaOM. The study measured the power consumption of voice calls placed over a CDMA network and compared it with voice calls that were transmitted over…
Sprint announced today that it is rolling out LTE to 11 new cities on the east coast and the mid-west. The lists of cities include: Anderson, Ind. Clarke County, Va./Jefferson County, W.Va. Harrisburg/Carlisle/Hershey, Pa. Hagerstown, Md./Martinsburg, W.Va. Harrisonburg, Va. Muncie, Ind. Peabody, Mass. Salina, Kan. Shenandoah County, Va. South Bend/Mishawaka, Ind. Winchester, Va. Sprint will…
Well for once, AT&T is doing something that isn’t pissing America off. It turns out that AT&T’s roll out of 4G LTE coverage across the country is going better than anyone, including the carrier, had anticipated. The goal to cover 150 million people in over 100 markets was projected by AT&T to be completed by…
The LTE version of the iPad mini has started hitting the hands of owners before its estimated delivery date. Shipments began rolling out on Tuesday, with Friday as the scheduled target date for deliveries. Interestingly, folks didn’t expect to see these 4G LTE iPad mini’s for at least a few weeks, as a longer wait was advertised…
Sprint is moving forward with its effort to expand its 4G LTE network across the country to better compete with the likes of AT&T and Verizon. Nine cities currently only covered by Sprint’s 3G network will soon light up with LTE access. The following cities are benefiting from the rollout: Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, Oakland/Fremont/Hayward, California,…
Today AT&T announced that it would invest $8 billion to significantly expand and upgrade its wireless networks. The expansion will see the Death Star’s 4G LTE network reach 300 million people by the end of 2014, which is a number that covers the entire country. This is a much more ambitious goal of what the…
US Cellular and its partner, King Street Wireless, are expanding the LTE coverage to over 30 new markets on Monday, November 5th. The first states to get the “power of 4G” are cities in Iowa, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Oklahoma. In addition, some of US Cellular’s leading markets will get the same treatment as well,…