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Rogers, one of Canada’s “Big Three” carriers, today announced that their network would expand to LTE in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Montreal before the end of 2011, and expand to the rest of the country throughout another 21 markets in 2012. Rogers began technical trials back in October, and though Bell and Telus are going…
Reports began to surface overnight that Verizon’s LTE network is down for the count. Numerous people on Verizon’s forums and on twitter claimed they had lost 4G connectivity on their device. This morning Verizon PR confirmed on twitter that the carrier is currently experiencing an issue with its 4G LTE connections. Verizon was tight-lipped about…
We may not get an iPhone 5 until September but don’t loook forward to an iPhone 4G LTE until 2012, according to analysts. The 4G LTE chipsets for the Verizon next-generation network just aren’t at the point where Apple would be comfortable with how its phone is designed, analysts say. The first batch of chips…
Cellular South has hooked up with LightSquared for a data roaming deal and the move will give users of the regional carrier access to the 4G LTE service in the future. If you’re not familiar with LightSquared, it uses satellite spectrum to offer 4G LTE wholesale services to carriers. This ambitious network could be a…
Recent rumors have indicated that the upcoming Motorola Droid Bionic for Verizon had been canceled, but it turns out that the powerful handset may have just been delayed. We can now expect this beast of a phone to land sometime in the 3rd quarter of this year instead of the second quarter. While the competition…
If you want to ride high on the Verizon 4G LTE hog but don’t want one of the huge computer dongles and aren’t convinced the HTC Thunderbolt is the right device for you, you’ll be happy to know that you can now pick up a Novatel MiFi with 4G speeds. The Verizon MiFi looks very…
The Samsung Droid Charge, also known as the Samsung Stealth for Verizon has just appeared on WalMart’s website. Seeing as how the suspected date for the release has already come and gone, the handset is bound to launch any day now. Hopefully. The appearance of the Charge on WalMart’s site should at least signal a…
We just had a meeting with the HTC folk and they seemed pretty happy in general. I guess that’s what happens when your company posts record sales and profits and overtake Nokia in terms of market capitalization. The company saw its net income triple to about $513 million for its first quarter and it saw…
Sprint is expected to sign network-sharing deals with both LightSquared and Clearwire this month according to a Credit Suisse analyst. It’ll be an interesting move, especially with the prior tensions between Sprint and Clearwire, and of course it will spark more rumors for Sprint possibly ditching WiMax for LTE (though I highly doubt it). IB…
You may have saw the research which found that the Verizon 4G LTE network was faster than the Sprint 4G WiMax network (at least in New York). Well, Sprint is firing back and saying this is hooey. The report found that the Verizon 4G LTE network averaged 9.1 Mbps down, 5.28 Mbps up with a…