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Whoops! It looks like someone over at Verizon goofed by outing the upcoming Droid Incredible 4G a little earlier than expected on the “Droid Does” site. This might bring some validity to the handset being rumored to hit Verizon April 26. The specs on the new Incredible resemble those of HTC’s new high-end GSM phones,…
Verizon today announced its plans to sell off all of its 700 MHz A and B spectrum licenses to rationalize its spectrum holdings. This sale will go down if the government allows the largest wireless provider in the United States to buy AWS spectrum from a contingent of cable companies. The plan for Verizon is…
Although there’s no single LTE connection in Brazil at the moment, Pyramid predicts there will be more than 18 million 4G users in the country by the end of 2015. Moreover, this prediction comes despite operators’ skepticism on the Brazil’s preparedness for the technology, which [skepticism] comes from the fact that 3G has yet to…
Verizon Wireless has announced that its expanding its 4G LTE network to nine new markets, which are heavily concentrated in California. The areas that’ll be getting LTE include Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Monterey, Sacramento, Salinas, and the San Francisco Bay area in California. The only outlying area is Reno, Nevada. All these locales will get LTE…
Sprint is moving closer toward releasing one of its first LTE handsets, the LG Viper 4G. We knew the LG Viper was hitting store shelves soon, once a document leaked last week. The company is slowly rolling out its LTE network, with the first test in Kankakee, Ill, so Sprint will begin to offer LTE…
US Cellular is moving up in prestige with its announcement that it has begun selling its first 4G LTE smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S Aviator. The carrier promised back in February that its first LTE phone would be released in April and has clearly stuck by its word. The Galaxy S Aviator is a mid-range…
Not many folks know this, but LG, the handset maker, has their own wireless network in South Korea. Known as Uplus, today the company is announcing that they’re the first operator in the world to cover an entire country with 4G LTE. According to TeleGeography, the high speed wireless network cost $1.1 billion to build…
After a rough few months, 4G Internet service provider LightSquared may be on the verge of bankruptcy. Philip Falcone, founder of Harbinger Capital hedge fund and LightSquared, told Reuters that he is seriously considering a voluntary bankruptcy to keep creditors at bay while LightSquared tries to figure things out. According to the Reuters report, Falcone…
MetroPCS has put into effect a price hike on its top-tier data plan. A plan that once costed $60 per month to receive unlimited calling, texting, data including 4G LTE, email and either MetroStudio on-demand video or Rhapsody now costs $70 but it throws both the MetroStudio and Rhapsody music. Considering all you get, it’s still…
Wild predictions are being made about the future of 4G speed by CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks Hossein Moiin. He thinks that by 2020, significant advancements will be made to the technology that will allow for speeds to become 1,000 times faster than they are today while costing as little as $1 per gigabyte, which…