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AT&T Buys Wayport to Keep iPhone Users Happy [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... users access its Wi-Fi hotspots free at Starbucks. It also means AT&T can hold out a bit longer before deploying its 4G LTE network, which is designed for data. ...
Free WiFi at McDonalds?
Mashable! —
... users access its Wi-Fi hotspots free at Starbucks. It also means AT&T can hold out a bit longer before deploying its 4G LTE network, which is designed for data. ...
Verizon Speeds Up LTE Launch [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... as the carrier said on Tuesday that it would begin deploying LTE next year — a year ahead of schedule. Several vendors had warned me that a U.S. carrier was talking about LTE in 2009. Given that Sprint had chosen WiMAX, AT&T is sticking with HSPA until 2011 or so, and that T-Mobile is ...
Verizon 4G Next year: A Pipe Dream?
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... It's an ambitious statement. If Verizon can stick to its plan it will be able to deliver 4G through LTE standard ahead of its peers. The company's rival T-Mobile is still rolling out its 3G network, while AT&T is likely to continue with HSPA standard till 2011. Competitor Sprint is betting on WiMax, the competing 4G level standard to LTE, though LTE allows for faster throughputs. ...
Clear WiMAX Network at Wall Street’s Mercy [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... However Chris King, an analyst from investment bank Stifel Nicolaus, says that if it does choose to wait, Clearwire could lose out on its 4G first mover’s advantage. It might, depending on how quickly other carriers move to LTE, although Clearwire will likely have a ...
The Biggest Losers: Delayed DTV Edition [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... AT&T : Engineering sources inside the company wouldn’t say much beyond confirming that extending the DTV deadline would affect rollout times, but that’s not necessarily something consumers would notice. AT&T plans to deploy LTE on its 700 MHz spectrum, but not until 2011 or beyond, which means that unless the transition is pushed beyond a few months, they won’t really sweat it. ...
Verizon Will Have LTE Smartphones in 2011 [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... finally got some respect, with AT&T saying it will likely deploy the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard in 2011 rather than in 2012 and Verizon choosing vendors for its ...
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Apple To Verizon: Can I Hear LTE Now? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... high-level talks that would allow iPhone to come to Verizon’s network. USA Today speculates that this could means a CDMA-based iPhone. I don’t buy it. Around the world, the CDMA ecosystem is slowly but surely contracting. To spend development dollars on a protocol with the limited future wouldn’t make sense. Instead, I think if there is indeed an agreement with Verizon, it will be for devices for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) 4G Wireless networks.
Verizon has plans to launch its LTE network in a handful of cities ...
AT&T Moves Up Its LTE Rollout, Admits To Network Issues [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... Wow! Ma Bell has been insistent that its 3G network has a lot of headroom and it doesn’t need LTE right away. ...
Tracking Verizon’s Shifting Statements on LTE [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... has been given to the rollout of LTE, which will offer much faster mobile broadband speeds. In addition to launching a new network, based on GSM rather than the familiar CDMA standard, Verizon had to wait while its 700 MHz spectrum to be used for LTE was vacated by television stations. That took four months. For those of you following along in the playbook, here are Verizon’s statements regarding LTE in the last year.
Aug 13: Verizon said it will roll out the network in 2010 and cover most of the country by 2012. ...
How Dell got into the Chinese mobile market, and Apple is likely never going to.
Josh Chandler —
... The somewhat lacklustre smartphone entry called the Mini 3i from Dell includes “2G (no 3G) but does come with a 3 megapixel camera, microSD slot, Bluetooth, and 950mAh battery.” despite the fact that China is expected to adopt the coveted 4G mobile networking standard commercially by 2010, ...
