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 [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, Cisco, LTE
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 [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Clearwire, LTE, Sprint, WiMax
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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Verizon’s Innovation Center opens its doors to LTE product development
Joseph Volpe, Engadget, 7/14/2011 Not sure if you’ve noticed, but there’s an LTE race going on and VZW’s wasting no time sprinting to the lead. Despite rival AT&T’s February launch of a similar R&D space in Texas, Verizon’s cutting its first big red bow on the two years in the making Innovation Center. Located just [...]
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AT&T to unveil first two 4G LTE products
Roger Cheng, CNET News, 7/12/2011 AT&T is jumping into the actual 4G game with its first two LTE products. The Elevate 4G mobile hot-spot devices is one of the first products that will use AT&T’s upcoming 4G LTE network. (Credit: AT&T) The telecommunications giant plans to show off a laptop card called the USBConnect Momentum [...]
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Verizon Gets Hit With FCC Complaint Over 4G LTE Tethering
Jordan Crook, Mobile Crunch, 6/7/2011 Verizon Wireless got hit with an FCC complaint this morning by an organization called Free Press, over the restrictions placed on Verizon’s 4G LTE smartphones. The group claims that Verizon’s rules don’t necessarily jive with the regulatory policies of the Federal Communications Commission when it comes to tethering to Verizon’s [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, FCC, LTE, Tether, Verizon
Verizon to lean on Wi-Fi, sees 4G-only phones by 2013
ArsTechnica, 5/20/2011 Verizon Wi-Fi to offset 3G, 4G in public areas Verizon CTO Tony Melone in a speech at the TIA conference said Verizon would be using Wi-Fi to help offset heavy cellular demand. He was adamant that it wouldn’t “cover up flaws and capacity limitations,” a slam against AT&T’s public hotspots often going up [...]
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Clearwire COO sees LTE switch on horizon, but details cloudy
Phil Goldstein, FierceWireless, 5/20/2011 Clearwire COO Erik Prusch said the company will eventually switch to LTE network technology, but declined to say when the switch will happen–and warned the plans are not definite. “WiMAX to date has been a very good technology choice for us,” he said in an interview with Cnet “We were able [...]
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Verizon’s 4G Mobile Hotspots
Mark Sullivan, ComputerWorld, 4/28/2011 Mobile hotspots like Novatel’s popular MiFi 2200 have been greeted warmly by tech users and have sold well. They simplify things by providing our various devices with Internet connectivity under one data service bill. And they’re small and superportable. But mobile hotspots have often connected devices to the Internet at relatively [...]
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Verizon introsMiFi 4510L 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot
Dan Seifert, MobileBurn, 4/18/2011 Verizon Wireless has announced the availability of the MiFi 4510L 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot built by Novatel. The MiFi 4510L is the successor to the popular MiFi 2200 3G Mobile Hotspot. Slightly larger in size than the MiFi 2200, the MiFi 4510L is 3.74in x 2.36in x 0.53in (95mm x 60mm [...]
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