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Sprint customers in a handful of markets across the country can now enjoy 4G LTE. Accoridng to the Kansas City Star, the wireless carrier is lighting up LTE in the following locations: Atlanta, Georgia; Newnan, Georgia; Rome; Georgia; Kansas City, Kansas; St. Joseph, Missouri; Austin, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Forth Worth, Texas; Houston, Texas; San Antonio,…
According to a new research from the GSMA and The Boston Consulting Group, Asia Pacific is on the cusp of a significant opportunity to unlock $1 trillion in GDP growth by 2020 through the harmonized adoption of the 700MHz spectrum band for mobile services. As part of this economic growth, there is the potential to…
AT&T is opening shop in a few new areas that lacked the company’s 4G LTE network. These new markets include Wichita, Kan.; Burlington, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem, N.C.; and Corpus Christi, Texas. The second largest wireless provider in the US also spread out its LTE 4G network in Charlotte, N.C., and recently launched in Buffalo, N.Y.…
Sprint is working double-time to finally get its LTE network rolled out to the masses. The company today announced the launch of its long awaited 4G service in the following cities: Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, and San Antonio. This is an aggressive move to speed up the process of overhauling its 3G and 4G…
If TELUS can offer LTE services, why wouldn’t its sub-brand, Koodo Mobile, do the same. That will apparently happen pretty soon, with HowardForums member “newdad” picking up speeds of “14mb down and 12mb” when hooking his unlocked Galaxy Note up in Aurora. Those are not “full LTE speeds” of 75Mbps, but TELUS’ network usually delivers…
NVIDIA Tegra 3-powered in-car infotainment system isn’t good enough for Audi – they also want to provide its customers with on-the-road connectivity. To make that happen, the car company is teaming-up with Sierra Wireless to use their AirPrime embedded wireless modules and make the whole car connected to a 3G/4G network. Still in the development and…
Verizon Wireless announced its plans to rollout more LTE service in large number of smaller markets. Big Red will launch its LTE network in Jefferson City and the Lake of the Ozarks region in Missouri. Moreover, VZ is also soon launching LTE in Bedford, Pa.; Jacksonville, New Barn, and Burlington, N.C.; Seymour and Columbus, Ind.;…
NVIDIA has announced quite a few details and new projects this week, so we’re going to get you up to speed with said announcements. From Tegra designs, Icera integration, and the Kai project, it’s certainly going to be an interesting (and successful) year for the company. Icera First off, let’s talk Icera. As you might…
Verizon Wireless CFO Fran Shammo spoke at the Barclays Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference about LTE data plans and he mentioned that 4G LTE gives Verizon greater flexibility to price data plans. “There’s a lot of innovation that LTE brings to give us the ability to price data very differently,” he said. For instance, someone asked…
The United States Navy is going 4G LTE, according to a Wired report. No, the Navy is not rebranding itself as the Navy 4G LTE, but the military branch will offer service members aboard the U.S.S. Kearsarge, U.S.S. San Antonio, and U.S.S. Whidbey Island the ability to connect to a 4G LTE network while aboard the…