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Get ready, Texas, as you’ve got some good news coming your way. Dan Hesse has just announced the rollout of LTE and 3G upgrades by mid-2012 in Atlanta, GA, San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas. Little else is known, as news was announced through Twitter. This is just the first few markets of Sprint’s rollout, of…
We knew this was coming but AT&T has expanded its super-fast 4G LTE network to 11 new markets including major cities like New York and San Francisco. The new markets also include Austin, Chapel Hill, Los Angeles, Oakland, Orlando, Phoenix, Raleigh, San Diego, and San Jose. This now brings AT&T’s 4G LTE network to 26…
Budapest is one of those must-visit cities in Europe. It’s not expensive and offers visitors a ton of things to see, including arguably the most beautiful parliament building in the world. And now that it got its first LTE network, both residents and travelers are able to stay connected at top notch speeds in the…
Verizon Wireless CFO Fran Shammo revealed that the carrier activated a record 4.2 million Apple iPhones during the holiday season. The largest carrier in the United States set another record, as the company turned on service for 2.2 million LTE devices in the fourth quarter. Verizon barely missed its lofty goal of 11 million iPhones sold…
Sprint is extending the deadline for LightSquared to gain FCC approval on its proposed LTE network by 30 days. Both companies signed a 15-year agreement this past summer, that was expected to receive the go-ahead from Washington no later than December 31st. If this partnership gets the thumbs up, the company gets its goal of a…
You can find all of our CES 2012 coverage here. It’s the start of a brand new year and that also means the tech press is gearing up for the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show next week. It’s going to be a grinding week of new product introductions, struggling to…
Verizon is having quite a month, as the company’s LTE network has suffered three outages, shutting down access to smartphone and wireless hotspot customers across the country. Verizon went on a PR offensive and said that sometimes being the pioneer leads to growing pains. In an interview with GigaOm, Verizon’s VP of network engineering Mike Haberman…
Everything seems to be on track for Sprint to roll out its LTE service, a service that will cost somewhere north of $715.5 million. The Now Network announced earlier this week that it has built its first cluster of multi-modal base stations that are LTE-ready. The cluster of base stations were planted in Kankakee, Illinois, and follows…
America’s “most reliable network” apparently isn’t so reliable, as Verizon Wireless customers are experiencing their third outage this month, which is just one week after we saw another outage. There have been plenty more throughout the year, too. On the (somewhat) bright side of things, this outage is only affecting 4G LTE customers- ergo, basically…
The folks over at Nanapho.jp, a foreign Windows Phone news publication, did some digging on a Nokia Lumia device to find Nokia’s diagnostics app, which is accessible via the terminal. There, they found different tests for “LTE TX” and “LTE Band Lock.” The latter is for choosing which LTE band the hardware should use and the…