While it’s not quite the LTE 4G iPhone many were hoping for, the iPhone 5 will apparently support HSPA+ technology, which many carriers bill as 4G.
Speaking at Macworld Asia this week, a China Unicom executive showed off the above …
Catching up with Verizon Wireless and AT&T, Sprint is gearing up to launch its own 4G LTE network early next year.
The LTE network is expected to arrive during the first or second quarter of 2012, CNet reports, citing people …
Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile carrier by revenue, is making its presence known in the U.S. today with the launch of its Xone research and development center in Silicon Valley.
The company isn’t gearing up to expand its network to …
AT&T will soon present a plan to the Justice Department to save its proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile, which is said to involve some major concessions on AT&T’s part, Reuters reports.
The carrier has to make clear to the …
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski is throwing his agency’s weight behind the Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit against AT&T over its proposed merger with T-Mobile.
“By filing suit today, the Department of Justice has concluded that AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile would …
Strong tablet sales this year will help increase the shipment of devices that connect to mobile broadband — basically everything connecting to cellular networks that’s not a smartphone — by 57.8 percent, research firm IHS iSuppli reports.
Other devices in …
Radio Shack announced this morning that it’s ending its relationship with T-Mobile and will start going steady with Verizon in September.
The company said that it will stop offering T-Mobile phones and services in its stores and on its website …
Verizon Wireless customers on the carrier’s ultra-fast 4G LTE network can give up the faint glimmer of hope they may have of being able to roam onto competing LTE networks, PC Mag reports.
Verizon spokeswoman Brenda Raney confirmed yesterday that …
AT&T had an eight-month head start with the iPhone 4, but Verizon has still ended up with a healthy 32 percent of the U.S. iPhone 4 market, according to a study by the mobile analytics company Localytics.
The study, if …
A cool $265 million is being banked today by LightSquared, the first wholesale-only integrated 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network in the United States. Over the last 12 months LightSquared has raised more than $2.3 billion.
Today’s capital comes from …
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has been railing loudly against AT&T’s $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile since the deal was announced. Now we have a closer look at Hesse’s concerted effort to kill the deal, thanks to a Bloomberg report.
The …
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4G. You’ve all heard, read or been told about it by enthusiastic tech-friends assuring you how great it’s going to be when you’ll have access to hardline-like broadband speeds in your pocket. But what does 4G actually mean to you …
T-Mobile isn’t slowing down with its ambitious 4G upgrades. The company announced today that it has doubled the speed of its 4G HSPA+ network in an additional 41 cities, bringing the total of upgraded 4G markets to 97.
The carrier …
In the ever-escalating debate over AT&T’s $39 billion T-Mobile takeover, you can now count tech giants including Microsoft, Facebook and 10 venture capital firms among supporters of the deal.
Letters of support from the firms were filed with the FCC …
Sprint is nearing a deal with wholesale 4G LTE company LightSquared to build and share networks that could give Sprint a whopping $20 billion, Businessweek reports.
Sources tell the magazine that the deal would span 15 years and allow LightSquared …
In addition to confirming that AT&T is working on shared data plans, CEO Ralph de la Vega spent much of his time on stage at the D9 conference today justifying the carrier’s potential merger with T-Mobile.
We already knew that …
AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega confirmed today at the D9 conference that the carrier is “working on” a shared data plan that would allow consumers to use multiple devices, including smartphones, tablets and netbooks, on a single pool of …
The battle for 4G dominance is ramping up this year, and it looks like AT&T may have a heck of a contender with its LTE 4G network.
AT&T showed off its LTE 4G network performing wicked fast with 28.87 megabits …
T-Mobile devotees are in for a treat tonight, as the carrier has confirmed that it will be making its popular Wi-Fi calling feature on supported Android phones completely free — meaning it won’t continue to use up any cellular minutes.…
We already knew that AT&T had promised T-Mobile a $3 billion breakup fee if their merger isn’t approved by regulatory agencies, but now it appears that AT&T may have another $3 billion worth of assets at stake in the deal, …
