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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…
Sprint’s Galaxy S model, the Samsung Epic 4G, just got a full-blown spec sheet, giving us a credible list of features to expect. The broad strokes were already covered in the initial announcement, but there are plenty of smaller details in the graphic above that may sate your curiosity. Here’s the short version: Android 2.1…
T-Mobile is teasing us with a page about its upcoming smartphone with full HSPA+ capabilities but the page’s code reveals more than T-Mobile may have wanted. The good folks at Tmonews said the code referred to the first HSPA+ device as the “Vanguard,” which has also been known as the HTC Vision or G1 Blaze.…
AT&T is adding a few more cities to its Wi-Fi Hotzone Pilot Project as it continues to bring the joy of wireless Internet to the masses. This means AT&T customers will have plenty of coverage outdoors in certain areas where they just might need it most. The first city was New York City where AT&T…
You may not have to wait long for the next, great Galaxy S Android phone because the Sprint Samsung Epic 4G could be hit around August 30, according to Samsung’s promotional pattern. Android Police first noticed that Samsung posts promotional videos on its devices on or near the release of its Galaxy S handset. For…
T-Mobile just let us know that it will be bringing its high-speed HSPA+ 3G technology to more markets. The company will soon have more than 85 million people blanketed and it’s on track to have more than 185 million people getting up to 21 Mbps download speeds by the end of the year. T-Mobile’s HSPA+…
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…