Clearwire 4G users and data use booming

Stephen Lawson, ComputerWorld, 1/24/2012 Clearwire said WiMax data use by subscribers of Sprint and other partners grew at twice the rate of customer growth Clearwire exceeded 10 million subscribers in the fourth quarter but still needs to raise more money to build its planned LTE network, a task that could be funded in part by [...]

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Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:45 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Sprint drops WiMAX phones for LTE, ‘all’ to get NFC

Electronista, 1/14/2012 Sprint to move phones wholesale to 4G and NFC Sprint in commentary during CES confrimed that it was dropping WiMAX on smartphones. The initial LTE smartphones were ultimately representing a full-scale switch to the technology for 4G phones, PCMag was told. The carrier was being more aggressive than it had suggested before and, [...]

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Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:23 am by lesliemanzara · Permalink · Leave a comment
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For blazing fast wireless internet, Broadcom announces its first 5G WiFi chips

Dean Takahashi, GamesBeat, 1/5/2012 Broadcomis announcing today its first WiFi chips that will allow wireless to surf the web at a speed of 1.3 gigabits per second. That is several times faster than existing network speeds, and these so-called 5G WiFi chips will be used in products coming out as early as the second quarter. [...]

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Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:00 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · Leave a comment
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4G wireless vs. 5G wireless

Mikael Ricknäs, ComputerWorld, 11/4/2011 Using more spectrum and advanced antennas, vendors and operators plan to increase 4G mobile speeds. But the key to increasing speeds as researchers look at future networks, which will someday be dubbed 5G by marketers, is to shorten the distance between users and base stations, and allowing them to automatically be [...]

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Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:22 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · Leave a comment
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AT&T Wi-Fi usage skyrockets

Marguerite Reardon, CNETnews, 10/24/2011 AT&T is relying more and more on its Wi-Fi networks to help off-load data traffic, which should ultimately lead to better network performance for its wireless customers. This week the carrier said it has seen Wi-Fi usage on these networks triple in the last year. In the third quarter, AT&T said [...]

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Posted on October 24, 2011 at 5:54 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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Sprint converts its network to LTE, plans ‘aggressive rollout’ to be completed by 2013

Joseph Volpe, Engadget, 10/7/2011 We knew more or less that an announcement of this sort was coming. Back in July, Dan Hesse had teased us face-to-face with the promise of a “great story this fall around 4G,” and now the time to tell that tale has arrived. At its strategy event today, Sprint finally went [...]

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Posted on October 7, 2011 at 9:32 am by lesliemanzara · Permalink · Leave a comment
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AT&T’s 4G LTE network set to go live today

Dan Seifert, MobileBurn, 9/18/2012 Today is the day that AT&T has said that its 4G LTE network would become operational and available to general consumers in the five test markets previously announced. Residents in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio should be able to take advantage of AT&T’s flavor of LTE today. AT&T is [...]

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Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:36 am by lesliemanzara · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Cisco, NEC team up on LTE networks

By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service, 8/30/2011 The deal could help NEC sell more base stations and Cisco more back-end switches Cisco Systems and NEC will jointly sell LTE networks to carriers under a deal announced on Tuesday. Cisco will provide its ASR 5000 mobile packet core switch and NEC will supply base stations for [...]

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Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:53 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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Can the cable industry succeed at wireless?

Sue Marek, FierceWireless, 8/11/2011 The third time is not always a charm–at least not when it comes to the cable industry succeeding at selling wireless services. By my count, the cable industry has made at least three attempts over the past two decades to gain a foothold in the wireless industry and build the elusive [...]

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Posted on August 11, 2011 at 3:03 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Clearwire Announces Intent to Add LTE to Its Network to Accelerate Wholesale Business

Clearwire, 8/3/2011 KIRKLAND, Wash, Aug. 3, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Clearwire Corporation (Nasdaq:CLWR), a leading provider of 4G wireless broadband services in the United States, today announced its intent to add “LTE Advanced-ready” technology to its 4G network. The announcement follows the successful completion of 4G technology trials that achieved download speeds exceeding 120 Mbps [...]

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Posted on August 3, 2011 at 4:28 pm by lesliemanzara · Permalink · One Comment
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