Saturday Night Live made technology an unusual target after it poked fun at Verizon in a pre-recorded skit (below). A customer (Fred Armisen) comes in asking about the carrier's 4G LTE network and is barraged with an increasingly technical and nonsensical sales pitch Read more...
Rogets touts upgraded LTE devices with 40Mbps real speeds
Canadian carrier Rogers set out to win speed claims with a set of upgraded LTE devices. The Sierra Wireless AirCard 330U and AirCard 763S hotspot both add the 2.6GHz frequency to the existing 1.7GHz and 2.1GHz bands, giving the 4G connection more real-world bandwidth. Where the existing LTE tops out at 12-25Mbps, Rogers expects the new hardware to achieve real speeds of as much as 40Mbps.... Read more...
ITU puts LTE-Advanced, WiMAX 2 under IMT-Advanced standard
The International Telecommunication Union this week gave a label to a whole class of future 4G standards. Both LTE-Advanced and WiMAX 2 (WirelessMAN-Advanced) will be classed as IMT-Advanced Read more...
Is ’5G’ mobile broadband just around the corner? IMT-Advanced explained (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - With Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint racing to bring 4G LTE services to customers (and T-Mobile having long marketed its hot-rodded HSPA+ as 4G technology) it might seem the 4G mobile broadband is on the verge of going mainstream. But what if we said these technologies were really just a sort of “4G Lite,� and the real 4G was just around the corner — and up to 10 times faster than what mobile operators are touting as 4G today Read more...
Sprint drops WiMAX phones for LTE, ‘all’ to get NFC
Sprint in commentary during CES confrimed that it was dropping WiMAX on smartphones. Read more...
Korea’s KT launches LTE, makes Korea all-4G
South Korea's KT on Tuesday became the third carrier in the country to launch LTE-based 4G. Its Olleh 4G LTE service is starting up first with four phones, including the Pantech Vega and Samsung's Galaxy S II LTE, Galaxy S II HD LTE, and Galaxy Note LTE Read more...
Verizon says latest data outage fixed overnight
Verizon stated early Thursday that its third LTE outage of December had been quietly fixed in the night. As before, it insisted that 3G data had stayed up and that only its newer 4G network was affected. Numerous reports from across the US pointed to 3G being down for at least some users as well.... Read more...
AT&T wraps buyout of Qualcomm spectrum for 4G boost
AT&T on Tuesday formally completed its purchase of Qualcomm airwaves. Read more...
It Doesn’t Matter If RIM Is Lying, It’s Still in Deep Trouble (Mashable)
Mashable - When Research In Motion (RIM) announced that BlackBerry 10 devices would be delayed until late 2012, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis blamed the delay on needing to wait for dual-core, dual-mode LTE chipsets. Read more...
It Doesn’t Matter If RIM Is Lying, It’s Still in Deep Trouble (Mashable)
Mashable - When Research In Motion (RIM) announced that BlackBerry 10 devices would be delayed until late 2012, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis blamed the delay on needing to wait for dual-core, dual-mode LTE chipsets. Read more...
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