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It looks like a good chunk of info surfaced regarding Verizon Wireless’ hardware plans for the end of 2010 and 2011. There are also some plans for 2012, too. Now, we’ve seen a small deal about Verizon’s LTE plans for the next few years, but info on hardware was pretty scant. Now it looks like…
Clearwire posted another bad quarter with a loss of more than $125 million but the 4G provider said it will be testing out Long-Term Evolution technology in a few markets. It’s not messing around either, as it claims it will provide speeds which are “unmatched” by any other carrier. The company, which is majority-owned by…
Watch out Sprint, Verizon is prepping its 4G network to go live this year with data cards and LTE handsets confirmed for the 2010 and 2011 roadmap to compete against your 4G WiMAX network. A trusted source of ours gave us the inside scoop on US cities that will go live this year through 2013,…
Uzbekistan of all places (pardon my ignorance) is one of the first markets in the world to be blessed with an LTE network thanks to Russia’s Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) which launched 4G services in the centre of Tashkent, the country’s capital. This move in turn makes MTS only the second operator in the world and…
Motorola will be using the 700 MHz spectrum to bring a 4G network based on Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology to San Francisco. The city of SF has tapped the wireless infrastructure arm of Motorola to build out the nation’s first LTE mobile broadband data network for use in public safety services. Before you San Franciscans…
Japanese operator NTT DOCOMO today unveiled “Xi”, the name for their LTE network due to launch in December of this year in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Speeds are supposed to hit 75 Mbps (9.375 megabytes per second!) on the downlink. Assuming Verizon launches their LTE network on November 15th, then Xi will be the 3rd…
NTT DOCOMO, who apparently changed their name from the difficult to type, but aesthetically pleasing DoCoMo, has licensed their LTE-PF chipset design to MediaTek, the Taiwanese firm who designs chips that go into million of Chinese mobile phones that are mostly clones of what’s sold in the West. What exactly is LTE-PF? As seen in…
Yesterday Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) announced that they’ve purchased Motorola’s network division for $1.2 billion. Today Harbinger Capital Partners, a bunch of dudes who manage a hedge fund, also known as the kind of people who grew up watching the 1987 cult classic “Wall Street“, have announced that they’ve awarded NSN a $7 billion contract…
As you’ve probably heard, Verizon Wireless is preparing to launch its LTE network later in the year (newly discovered leaked documents additionally prove this). It won’t be a full blown launch across the country, but most likely a limited rollout with only specific markets being covered at start. On that note, check out what we’ve…