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France will get LTE network(s) later this year, with the country’s leading mobile operator Orange announcing its 4G pilot for June, starting in the city of Marseille. The France Telecom-owned carrier has a combination of two frequencies (2.6GHz and 800MHz) for its LTE services, and will use the network infrastructure supplied by Alcatel-Lucent. Aside from…
Canada’s Rogers Wireless said it has no plans to offer LTE services through its sub-brand Fido, though things could change or are changing as we speak. When Fido employees click on the screen to activate/upgrade a customer the option of “LTE Voice and Data Sharing Bundles” pops up. That, of course, doesn’t prove anything though…
In early February of this year US Cellular announced that it would be carrying the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with LTE in tow and today is that day. US Cellular customers can now grab the tablet on a new two-year contract and get to living the LTE life. While the hardware of Android tablets have…
Prepare to be shocked. According to J.D. Power and Associates, some of the most unhappy mobile phone customers are ones with 4G LTE smartphones. The sole reason? Poor battery life. The data J.D. Power and Associates collected shows that dissatisfaction with battery life alone on LTE smartphones “greatly impacted” overall satisfaction of the phones. 4G…
The new iPad is being well received for its new Retina Display and its lightning-fast support of 4G LTE but don’t try and make FaceTime calls over that 4G because the Apple video calling service is still limited to WiFi. According to the Verge, when you connect try to make a FaceTime call over 4G…
Verizon is the nation’s largest 4G wireless carrier and it’ll remain in the number position for the foreseeable future. The carrier said earlier this week that it intends to double its LTE footprint in the upcoming year. Currently, Verizon offers LTE in 203 markets across the US. This number will expand to 400 by the…
The two largest cell phone companies in the United States today announced they’ll be offering the new iPad on March 16. Both wireless providers plan to offer their own Wi-Fi + 4G models of the third-generation iPad across all sales channels. Subscribers can expect the 16GB entry-level model to set you back around $630 on Verizon…
We don’t usually associate C Spire with high-end technologies like LTE. Guess we’re wrong as the regional carrier plans to launch its own 4G network later this year. Actually, they wanted to do that last year, but obviously something went wrong when those plans were postponed. The new plan is to begin rollout in September,…
Virgin Mobile is preparing to launch its own LTE network just in time for the new iPad (March 16th). According to an internal document which has found its way to the web, the carrier’s initial plan is to reach some 6 million Canadians in 14 urban centers across the country, offering peak speeds of up…
It looks like George may have been underwhelmed with iOS 5.1 hitting the App Store, but there’s a little something that I’m sure many of you will be excited about to see once you update your AT&T iPhone 4S. As you see from the screencap I took of my iPhone 4S, the 3G indicator has…