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Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam stepped on his own company’s press conference a little during a keynote at the CTIA Wireless show, as he revealed the company’s deployment plans for its 4G network based on Long-Term Evolution technology. Get ready for some 4G LTE goodness in 38 cities by the end of the year. The company…
ST-Ericsson’s newest modem, the M5730, may not sound sexy, nor will manufacturers who use it bother even mentioning it’s inside their hardware, but we’re mobile geeks, so we care when we hear things like “up to fifty per cent lower power consumption than competing HSPA+ 21Mbps modems available on the market”. Let’s back track a…
Verizon Wireless announced today that it will unveil its LTE launch plans during a press event at CTIA tomorrow. While this is an official announcement, many of the details surrounding Verizon’s LTE Launch have been leaked by unofficial sources and hinted at by loose-lipped executives speaking at public events. From this myriad of sources, we…
LightSquared, the wireless broadband and satellite company, has just announced that it closed on $850 million of debt and brings its total equity to $2 billion. Now, LightSquared wants to build its own 4G or LTE network to sell wholesale. The plan is not to sell it average consumers like you and me, but to…
It looks like Skype will be swiping Cisco executive Tony Bates as its CEO and he will be heading a company which has the opportunity to be a major disruptor in the mobile space. Skype has more than 560 registered users and about 124 million of those use the VoIP-calling service on a monthly basis.…
T-Mobile is rapidly expanding its new 4G revealing high speed HSPA+ data network to more and more US cities as the weeks go by, and has just announced many more metro areas to add to the pack. Users with compatible devices, the G2 and upcoming myTouch can take full advantage of the carrier’s very speedy…
For those of you who thought that T-Mobile was done launching new Androids with the G2, you were mistaken. Meet the myTouch (MyTouch HD as we used to call it), a re-visioning of the carrier’s Android brand that offers just about anything you could want on a smartphone today. The myTouch is every bit as…
T-Mobile is the only carrier left without a conspicuous 4G plan. Sprint is already using WiMax and both Verizon and AT&T have made it very clear that they will go with LTE. T-Mobile, however, has been focusing on its HSPA+ network, which offers theoretical top speeds of up to 21Mbps. Still, the nation’s fourth largest…
Sprint has spoken up about its future network plans and this includes migrating iDEN customers to CDMA, improving in-building coverage and maybe deploying Long-Term Evolution 4G networks. In an interview with Fierce Wireless, Sprint senior VP Bob Azzi said it will aim to replace some of its equipments with equipment that is more powerful and…
It looks like Sprint and Clearwire could be heading for a divorce, as three Sprint executives have resigned from the Clearwire board. The real question is: who gets the 4G kids? The Wall Street Journal said this could pave the way for Clearwire to pursue new options. Sprint owns about 54% of Clearwire right now…