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MetroPCS has turned on its 4G LTE service in the San Francisco area and users will now be able to get next-generation mobile data without a contract. MetroPCS offers 4G LTE service for as little as $55 with voice and texting service and that’s significantly cheaper than some of the competitors. This also includes taxes…
Today, Verizon announced its plans to launch LTE or 4G and Clearwire isn’t missing this opportunity to address that. What’s the subject of debate? Use of the term “4G” and what it means. Basically, Clearwire is admitting that “4G” is being used as a marketing term right now, especially since both Verizon and T-Mobile are…
Verizon confirmed that it will launch its LTE network on December 5th. The wireless carrier will kick off its 4G campaign by rolling out the high-speed mobile broadband service in 38 cities and 60 airports this Sunday. The service will blanket 110 million people at launch. Southern California will be its largest launch market with coverage…
German divisions of T-Mobile and Vodafone unveiled their LTE plans and prices — actually German division of T-Mobile is their main/home office. First comes the Big Red carrier which plans to offer a Samsung dongle with tiered monthly plans costing between 42.50 and 72.50 EUR. The top rate provides users with up to 30GB of…
Verizon announced today that it will be holding a press conference on December 1st to discuss its LTE rollout plans. The press conference will begin at 12:00 noon EST and is available via teleconference and on twitter (@VerizonWireless #VZW4G). The carrier is expected to blanket 38 major metropolitan areas and more than 110 million Americans…
RIM’s job database has a position for an NFC specialist for their Rolling Meadows, Illinois, who would design and oversee the testing processes for as yet unannounced NFC devices. Man, Jim Balsillie wasn’t fooling around when he was talking about near-field communications on BlackBerry being more or less a sure thing. For the uninitiated, near-field…
We’ve been expecting the HTC Merge to be announced for some time now, and just when it seemed likely that it would happen, it never did. Now with the appearance of a Merge case popping up, the handset has got to be announced sometime soon, right? When we heard of the Droid Incredible’s relaunching party,…
Hong Kong-based CSL has launched the commercial LTE services, becoming the first operator in Asia to migrate to the next-generation technology. Initially, the new network offers only “corporate services” with consumer offerings planned for the first quarter of next year “when [LTE] devices start entering in the market.” At the moment, the network lives across…
Coca-Cola is in the midst of experimenting with NFC contactless payments in Belgium and Luxembourg. The company has struck a partnership deal with PingPing to implement their technology on Coca-Cola vending machines. The NFC payment enablement program is set to start at the end of this year, effectively making Belgium the first European country to…
Mobile voice and text messaging technology company Bubble Motion announced that it has been awarded a patent for its work in pioneering mobile messaging in a format known as “Voice SMS.” Here’s what’s it all about (from the press release): The patent covers the ability for consumers to click, record and send voice-recorded messages to…