Selling Our Wireless Future

Huffington Post (blog)
When AT&T argued in defense of its T-Mobile merger, it said that T-Mobile wasn't much of a competitor "without the spectrum to deploy a 4G LTE network." But the reason T-Mobile lacks that spectrum is that Verizon and AT&T already own 78 percent of the ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The investment in 4G technology represents a major step forward in the region and reinforces IBW's position as a market leader. By deploying a convergent charging and billing system that supportsWiMAX and LTE, IBW can readily launch new services over ...
CBS News
The FCC wants to revamp the phone-subsidy program to redirect the money toward broadbandexpansion. The Universal Service Fund was created to ensure that all Americans have access to a basic telephone line. Supported by a surcharge on long-distance ...
GigaOm
By Ryan Lawler Oct. 27, 2011, 6:58am PT No Comments Time Warner Cable continued to see a slide in its video subscribers, but it is trying to make up for those losses by betting more heavily onbroadband as its core service. On Thursday's third-quarter ...
PCWorld
The news cleared up some of the uncertainty around Sprint's relationship with Clearwire, which provides Sprint's 4G services today through its WiMax network. At an analyst conference on Oct. 7, Sprint had described plans for its own LTE network but ...
TMC Net
According to IDG News reporter Stephen Lawson, “the news cleared up some of the uncertainty around Sprint's relationship with Clearwire (News - Alert), which provides Sprint's 4G services today through its WiMax network.”   In fact, in early October at ...
BusinessWeek
By Jonathan Browning Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Virgin Media Inc. returned to broadband subscriber growth in the third quarter as customers opted to take faster, more expensive broadband offerings. The company added 6300 cable customers on a net basis ...
UPI.com
"This alliance will look to expand the choices for a growing set of solutions that can be deployed to create an advanced, mission-critical broadband experience for public safety." The companies said4G LTE technology provides several benefits, ...
NOLA.com
By Jonathan Tilove, The Times-Picayune WASHINGTON -- The Commerce Department Wednesday rescinded an $80 million grant to Louisiana to spread broadband in rural central and northeastern parts of the state, complaining that the Board of Regents' ...
Washington Post
“When trying to subsidize broadband in rural areas, there will be failures,” said Richard Bennett, a senior research fellow at Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a think tank supported by major telecommunications companies. ...
PCWorld
The problems can be complex, involving wireless bandwidth, processor performance and broadbandspeed, but failures often just end in frustration. Cisco thinks it can solve consumers' problems in one trip to the store and simultaneously rise above the ...
AllAfrica.com
Nigerians last week in Lagos, witnessed a renewed campaign for broadband access and penetration at the just-concluded 3rd West African Information and   Communications Technology (WAFICT) Congress, as almost all papers presented were focused on new ...
Siliconrepublic.com
As new 4G technologies like LTE arrive, will the country finally get decentbroadband? Across Europe, countries are getting ready to put vital wireless spectrum bands up for auction and usher in a vibrant new telecoms future. ...
Engadget
By Brad Molen posted Oct 27th 2011 11:27AM Now that both Rogers and Bell have alive and kickin'LTE networks, it's high time we see a full lineup on them, right? HTC's doing its part, at least, by offering the Raider 4G LTE (aka Holiday), ...
Sacramento Bee
By Anritsu Corporation RICHARDSON, Texas, Oct. 26, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Anritsu Corporation has established LTE leadership in the test equipment industry, with the confirmation at last week's Global Certification Forum (GCF) meeting that the company ...
Mobile bloom News
The Samsung Stratosphere 4G is the first Android smartphone with a side sliding QWERTY keyboard for the Verizon 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband network. It is also the first Samsung smartphone on Verizon's 4G LTE network to launch for a ...
The Borneo Post
SETTING TARGETS: Toure says that the ITU will undertake the responsibility for measuring each country's progress towards the targets, producing an annual broadband report with rankings of nations worldwide in terms of broadband policy, ...
ZDNet Asia
By Jamie Yap , ZDNet Asia on October 27, 2011 (5 hours ago) Affordability   biggest barrier tobroadband adoption, and small drop in price can bring access within economic reach of those who may otherwise be digitally deprived, reveals analyst. ...
Engadget
By Brad Molen posted Oct 27th 2011 6:49AM We knew it was planning to grace Europe and Asia with its presence this month, but now we're hearing the   Motorola Pro+ 4G is ready to make its North American debut at Bell Canada. We're not seeing any large ...
TIME
The first handset will be Samsung's Exhibit II 4G, and it'll be available at Walmart starting October 27 for $200 without a contract, or $80 with a two-year agreement. The phone will go on sale elsewhere on November 2. On paper, the Exhibit II 4G isn't ...
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
IMS is the open standards architecture that enables any kind of multimedia or telephony access between any kind of device, either fixed or broadband, serving as a hub for multimedia communications in 4G networks, the company said. ...
China Daily
CHICAGO -- US-based VelaTel Global Communications announced Tuesday that it would form a joint venture with a Chinese company to deploy fourth-generation (4G) communication and information service networks in the Asian country. ...
Mashable
At just 7.1mm thin, Motorola claims that the Razr is the thinnest 4G LTE smartphone on the market. Thinness, the hallmark of the original Razr, is back in full force. Motorola touts the new woven Kevlar fiber back on the new device. ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Nick Clayton Slowly but surely the number of hotels offering decent quality Wi-Fi in with the room rate has increased. But it could be about to hit a roadblock. And the iPad is to blame. Along with other tablet computers, they are heavily used for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ALISO VIEJO, CA, Oct 26, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- WiFi Wireless, Inc. (pinksheets:WFWL) announced today that after several weeks, the beta test that was conducted by a number of carefully selected industry professionals will result in bringing ...
PC Magazine
Instead, Verizon seems to be leaning towards deploying a fixed broadband LTE solution in rural areas, a fancy way of stating that it is planning to put a fixed wireless antenna in homes, which could communicate to computers or other devices via Wi-Fi ...
PCWorld
But Wi-Fi has become a ubiquitous standard used by a host of devices--including desktop PCs, laptops, netbooks, tablets, smartphones, printers, storage devices, and projectors. To determine whether you need to update or improve your Wi-Fi network, ...
Digitaltrends.com
Data speed on AT&T's HSPA+ 3G network (the carrier calls its network “4G” but it's not comparable to WiMax or LTE) was typical. In Manhattan, New York, we got an average of 1.5Mbps to 2.5Mbps download speeds and about 1Mbps to 1.5Mbps upload speeds. ...
Engadget
By Brad Molen posted Oct 27th 2011 10:21AM Bring it on, LTE-Advanced. In case you've been looking for ways to eat up your capped data plan any faster, a researcher from Samsung proclaims that speeds up to 5.5gbps (yes, with ag) might be reachable ...
By Cory Gunther
When Verizon announced their new 4G LTE network they had a few goals set in terms of the rollout, and how many customers would be able to take advantage of the.
Android Community
By Kelly Hodgkins
Hotel owners will have to decide whether they want to continue offering WiFi service to their visitors that's inexpensive to provide, but excruciatingly slow or   pay to upgrade their bandwidth and institute a paid tiered service for their customers. ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
By John Paczkowski
Apple has evidently found a way around the design compromises that have so far dissuaded it from releasing an LTE-capable iPhone. Industry sources tell Taiwanese trade mag DigiTimes that Apple will “join the LTE club in 2012. ...
AllThingsD
By Matt Lynley
Many of Apple's rivals have already started making 4G phones, but so far it hasn't been happy with the LTE chipsets. "The first generation of LTE chipsets force a lot of design compromises with the handset, and some of those, we are just not ...
Business Insider
By Kevin Krause
The Raider, an Android 2.3 device boasting a 4.5-inch qHD display, will bring   its LTE radio to Rogers in Canada, making it among the network's first devices to use the next-gen 4G technology. Rumors originating at MobileSyrup state that the ...
Android Phone Fans
By Tyler Lee
Enterprise users looking to get their hands on an Android smartphone will be pleased to hear that Motorola together with [...]
Ubergizmo
By Sam Churchill
DailyWireless.org covers current developments in broadband wireless, including WiMAXLTEWiFiand mobile aps. Online ... Walmart is increasing its line-up of affordable T-Mobile phones to six, including 4G prepaid handsets. The deal ...
By Phil Nickinson
A couple weeks into using the HTC Amaze 4G on T-Mobile, we've pretty much decided the most amazing thing about the device isn't the hardware, which of course is stellar. It's not the software, which is a further iteration of HTC Sense. ...
Android Central - Android Forums,...
By Ed Oswald
Three weeks after T-Mobile introduced a cheap no-contract 4G data plan through Walmart, the carrier on Wednesday revealed the promised 4G-capable phone to sell at the retailer: the Samsung Exhibit II4G. The phone runs Android 2.3 ...
BetaNews
By adamg
Steve Berry reports his Verizon 4G phone works as advertised when he's in a 4G coverage area, but that the problem is that his commute takes him into 3G territory and that's a problem: When the 4Gsignal is low and a 3G is ... The MiFi is a small device that acts as a wireless router for several nearby WiFi enabled devices. Secondly, he is incorrect - the Novatel MiFi 4G LTE offered by Verizon can be forced into 4G or 3G only operation. There's a bunch of links that explain how - here's ...
Universal Hub
By Melanie Pinola
Android: We heard about WiFiKill a while ago, but it just seemed too, well, evil to write about until now. The app disables the connection of other devices on the same Wi-Fi network; essentially you can bump people off without them knowing.
Lifehacker

U.S. Ranked 12th in Broadband Speed - 5.8 Mbps Average, up 9 ...
Akamai's list of the one hundred fastest broadband cities is unsurprisingly ... Links, Hotels May Charge More for Wi-Fi, Sprint: LTE Advanced on 1900MHz PCS ...
www.dslreports.com/.../US-Ranked-12th-in-Broadband-Speed...
UN sets global broadband targets - Digg
The UN is determined to see broadband as widely adopted as other vital services and has set ambitious new targets.
digg.com/news/technology/un_sets_global_broadband_targets

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