Category: Mobile WiMAX

Sprint Nextel has announced it has begun taking orders for its first LTE devices. The devices will be available in Sprint stores in selected areas starting on May 18. The areas, which include Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Kansas City, are the first to launch Sprint's new LTE service, which will happen by mid-year. The new LTE devices include an HTC Evo 4G LTE smartphone running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). The phone will have a 4.7-inch HD display, a 1.5-GHz Qualcomm

Voyager Mobile, the latest prepaid MVNO to resell Sprint’s 3G and WiMAX service, has delayed today’s launch because of an attack on its website. According to a post on the company’s website, Voyager Mobile “experienced a malicious network attack to its primary website.” Voyager is postponing the launch to a “time and date” in the very near future. Voyager promises two options, including a $19 talk and text plan, as well as a $39 plan that will include talk, text and data. The company will featur

Analysis for Fixed and Mobile WiMAX deployments based on IEEE 802.16d and IEEE 802.16e standards - Analysis for WiMAX deployments in 316 cities including profile information, operators, suppliers, and operating frequencies - Comparison of WiMAX deployments ...

Welcome to .Ru! As usual we'll be looking at all things online, blogs, websites and social networks and everything that takes the minds of the online public in Russia and worldwide. Remember the slogan? “To better living through chemistry?” Well, some days I wonder if today another slogan would be appropriate: “to better living through IT”. It seems that digital tech is making out lives better from any angle – even traffic. And no, I don’t mean you can play angry birds in Facebook from your 4G-c

Over the last year, Sprint has constantly touted its Network Vision upgrade as the way forward for the company to compete effectively against the likes of AT&T and Verizon Wireless, as well as T-Mobile USA and other smaller carriers. But what is Network Vision? How does it affect Sprint subscribers? Is it the silver bullet that Sprint portrays it to be? Before we dive into answering those questions, a little history on Network Vision is in order. The history will help put into perspective why Sp

By Kim Komando USA TODAY Published: Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 12:07 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 12:07 p.m. If you’re confused about 4G, welcome to the fastest-growing club! AT&T; claims to have the nation’s largest 4G network. Verizon touts America’s fastest 4G LTE network with ” a higher standard of coverage.” The advertising war is on. AT&T; recently befuddled millions of iPhone 4S customers. After upgrading to iOS 5.1, users discov

Cable industry executives flocked to The Cable Center in Denver recently for a day of briefings by analysts and senior executives both from multiple system operators (MSOs) and key industry hardware suppliers. For more than eight hours they heard about everything from the life cycle of the industry’s DOCSIS standard to the revolution in video delivery represented by the use of Internet protocol (IPTV) and the challenge that presents to the industry. The conference, “Cable Next-Gen Broadband Stra

jimbo | Apr 12, 2012 | Comments 0 St Louis ATT 4G LTE Coverage 2012 AT&T's 4G LTE Coverage Map for St. Louis This morning St. Louis joined the ranks of 31 other markets with 4G LTE coverage from AT&T. View the Press Release] As we reported about a week ago, AT&T began rolling out LTE to 12 new markets on Easter Sunday. Although quite a few LTE symbols were popping up on devices in the area before then, today is the official “grand opening” of

Global mobile backhaul equipment market reached $7.4 billion revenue in 2011, up by 8 per cent following a 10% increase in 2010, said a report by a California-based market research firm, Infonetics. The report forecasted that a cumulative $39 billion would be spent on mobile backhaul equipment over the next 5 years from 2012 to 2016. "The nice bump up in the mobile backhaul market in 2011 was due in large part to a surge in Ethernet mobile backhaul router purchases in China," said Michael Howard

Elevate said today it will use Clearwire's WiMAX network for fixed and mobile broadband services through an expanded MVNO deal with Sprint. The company had planned to use LightSquared's now-stalled wholesale mobile broadband service, but the indefinite delays in the company's LTE network have apparently sent it looking elsewhere. It will sell Clearwire’s WiMAX service under its own brand to offer its "Stack" products – voice, video, data and home automation – in "virtually every major metropolit

Adolfo Avalos is Engineering Manager for Personal Telecom Paraguay and is appearing on Day One of the LTE Latin America 2012 conference, taking place on the 17-18 April 2012 at the Windsor Barra Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Ahead of the conference Telecoms.com speaks to him on his views on the engineering challenges that have to be met as LTE is adopted. What are the main challenges you have faced, or expect to face, as you roll out LTE? Whenever we deploy new technologies in the network we ha

Elevate said today it will use Clearwire's WiMAX network for fixed and mobile broadband services through an expanded MVNO deal with Sprint. The company had planned to use LightSquared's now-stalled wholesale mobile broadband service, but the indefinite delays in the company's LTE network have apparently sent it looking elsewhere. It will sell Clearwire’s WiMAX service under its own brand to offer its "Stack" products - voice, video, data and home automation - in "virtually every major metropo

Singapore consumers using smart devices may enjoy nationwide 4G technology for their mobile communications as early as 2016, according to a report published in The Channel News Asia website. The news website referred to the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore saying that the government agency in-charge of planning and implementing ICT technology in the country intends to put 320 megahertz (Mhz) of fourth generation (4G) spectrum up for auction in the first half of next year. IDA ha

Sprint is known for its unlimited data plans and it is currently the only major carrier that doesn’t throttle excessive data use. Following the announcement that Sprint planned to discontinue its WiMAX buildout and switch to the more widely used LTE standard, however, the company never mentioned whether its upcoming LTE network would continue to offer unlimited data plans. To clarify the issue, Sprint on Tuesday confirmed to TechHog that its 4G LTE devices “will be available on Sprint’s network

Sprint’s Evo 4G LTE hopes to conjure some old magic By Ryan Kim Apr. 4, 2012, 3:57pm PT 1 Comment * Tweet * * * Two years after Sprint and HTC enjoyed a winner with the original Evo 4G, the two are back at it with the Evo 4G LTE, a variant of the One X phone that will serve as a flagship for Sprint’s emerging 4G LTE line-up. The phone, part of HTC’s One lineup of smartphones, represents a key bet for both Sprint and HTC. Sprint is trying to make the leap from WiMAX to LTE in hopes of catching up