WiMax backer Clearwire to start LTE trials
Sam Diaz, CNET news, 8/5/2010 Clearwire announced plans Thursday to start trial testing 4G LTE technology this fall. The move will not only allow the company to showcase the capabilities of the technology but also allow it to “examine a variety of potential future technology combinations.” The tests will be conducted through early 2011 in [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, Clearwire, LTE, WiMax
Verizon LTE SIM Card & Documents Leaked
the BerryReview Team, Berry Review, 7/19/2010 I get such a kick when I see a Verizon SIM card. The team over at Engadget has gotten some internal documentation on Verizon’s LTE rollout and their system upgrade to support their LTE network. Verizon’s systems are now ready to charge you and setup a LTE connections so you [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, LTE, Verizon
Intel’s Losing Big Money on WiMAX
Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM, 6/28/2010 Two WiMAX networks backed by Intel have failed, delivering a blow to the WiMAX standard, but also to Intel and its venture capital arm. Intel, which has invested billions in WiMAX networks in order to encourage the spread of the technology and boost demand for the company’s chips, has already had [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, Clearwire, LTE, WiMax
AT&T, Verizon join Wi-Fi roaming group
Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service, 6/22/2010 Cisco and Comcast have also recently joined the WBA, which provides for easy roaming onto hot spots AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the two largest U.S. mobile operators, have joined an organization that ensures roaming among mobile operators’ Wi-Fi networks. The group, called the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), also announced [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, AT&T, Cisco, Comcast, LTE, Verizon, WiFi, WiMax
Verizon Wireless eyeing tiered data service
Lance Whitney, CNET News, 6/18/2010 Verizon Wireless is toying with the idea of eliminating its unlimited data plans and switching to tiered pricing, according to its parent company’s chief financial officer, John Killian. In an interview with Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek, Killian said, “We will probably need to change the design of our pricing where it will [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, AT&T, HSPA, HTC, LTE, T-Mobile, Verizon
EVO 4G Battery Life Sags Under Weight of High-Speed Network
Andy Patrizio, EnterpriseMobileToday, 6/16/2010 Being on the bleeding edge of technology sometimes leaves you bleeding. In the case of Sprint customers who quickly snapped up the HTC EVO 4G phone, it’s their phone that’s bleeding. Bleeding power. Rather quickly, users found out the EVO 4G drains power so fast it makes the iPhone look durable. [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, Mobile Technology, iPhone · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, HTC, LTE, Sprint, WiMax
AT&T makes sweeping changes to data plans, iPhone tethering coming at OS 4 launch
Chris Ziegler Engadget, 6/2/2010 You might think that AT&T would hold off for a national HSPA+ deployment or a full-on LTE launch before tweaking its data pricing strategy, but not so much — the carrier is coming out swinging today with some significant changes that should benefit the overwhelming majority of its smartphone users (and [...]
In: Mobile Technology, iPad, iPhone · Tagged with: AT&T, HSPA, LTE, Tether, Verizon, WebOs, WiFi
The Big Shift: Moving to LTE From WiMAX
Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM, 5/30/2010 If WiMAX is a fad — a short-term bridge on the path to LTE as the global fourth-generation wireless standard — how will operators move from one network technology to another? Russian WiMAX provider Yota said last week that it would stop deploying WiMAX networks and switch instead to LTE for [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, CDMA, Clearwire, GSM, LTE, T-Mobile, Verizon, WiMax
The real world: Comparing 3G/4G speeds
Mike Dano, FierceWireless, 5/27/2010 T-Mobile USA this week laid down the gauntlet by declaring its HSPA+ network will provide “4G speeds.” While that’s debatable (I realize the International Telecommunication Union has a definition for 4G, but no carrier abides by that definition in its marketing, and for all practical purposes it’s irrelevant), T-Mobile’s assertion certainly [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, AT&T, HSPA, LTE, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, WiMax
Sprint evaluating options, open to LTE
Sue Marek, FierceWireless, 5/20/2010 Sprint has issued a request for proposal for its next-generation of mobile network technology and LTE may be one option. Light Reading Mobile reports that at the LTE World Summit in Amsterdam this week Kevin Packingham, senior vice president of product and technology development at Sprint, said that the company is evaluating [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: CDMA, Clearwire, LTE, Sprint, Verizon, WiMax