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Were you one of the first people to get your hands on the Motorola Xoom, Google’s flagship tablet and the first device to run Android Honeycomb? Are you really excited about the speed and other benefits that come with 4G LTE, but have been too lazy up until now to send your tablet back to…
Verizon Wireless claimed in a filing to the FCC in an attempt to purchase more wireless spectrum for its 4G LTE network that it could run out of its current spectrum as early as next year. That means customers moving to LTE devices will be pretty pissed off to find that within a year Verizon…
T-Mobile announced that it will suspend all development of HSPA+ after 42 Mbps, as the company plans to focus on its LTE deployment instead. This plan to build a 4G LTE network using the AWS spectrum came about right after the United States government told AT&T to kick rocks. T-Mo decided to smartly use the…
Verizon Wireless launched its next-generation 4G LTE network a little over a year ago, but unfortunately most customers are still using 3G. Wall Street Journal reports that only 5 percent of all Verizon customers are taking advantage of LTE speeds a year after the nationwide rollout began. As of the end of last year, Verizon Wireless…
British market leader Everything Everywhere said it will start offering 4G LTE services by the end of the year, subject to regulatory approval. The company, which is a 50-50 joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile, is also upgrading its network to 21Mb/s HSPA+ technology as we speak with the goal to end the process by…
The NVDIA Tegra 3 chip is pretty darn powerful but it may get even faster now that a major LTE modem makers has announced support and development for the quad-core beast. GCT Semiconductor and Renesas Mobile have signed a pact to support and develop LTE modems that are compatible with Tegra 3 and NVIDIA says…
We know that T-Mobile plans to launch a 4G LTE network in 2013 and the company offered some more details on the next step in its mobile data network. Will it be able to keep up with AT&T, Sprint and Verizon when it comes to 4G LTE? T-Mobile certainly thinks so and CEO Philip said…
This past Sunday, AT&T started tweakings its 4G network campaign to boast an interesting new detail: the carrier decided it now has bragging rights to be called the nation’s largest 4G network. A spokeswoman officially said it “covers more customers than any competitor’s 4G network and delivers great speeds up to four times faster than…
If you wake up and discover the LTE connection on your Verizon 4G phone is not working, you are not alone. According to reports from BGR and Engadget, Verizon’s LTE network is down in select parts of the country. Engadget has received reports of outages in Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Verizon’s twitter account confirms “VZW…
Instead of taking a slow and steady approach to rolling out 4G LTE, US Cellular wants its customers using the faster technology as soon as possible. The carrier unveiled today that subscribers in over 3,600 cities across America will soon be blanketed in 4G speeds, which US Cellular claims is up to 10 times faster…