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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

Verizon's 4G LTE network will be introduced in 28 new markets and expanded in 11 more. Lynn La by Lynn La May 15, 2012 11:35 AM PDT Follow @lynnlaaa Dan Mead, the CEO of Verizon Wireless, speaks at CTIA 2012. The carrier plans to introduce its 4G LTE network to 28 new cities starting May 17. (Credit: Lynn La/CNET) Looks like the Big Red is about to get even bigger. Verizon's 4G LTE network, which already covers the largest amount of markets

CTIA published information on the efficient use of spectrum ... and applications enabled by GSM and its evolution to LTE. 4G Americas is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., with an office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Dallas. More information ...

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

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

Declaring that parent company Deutsche Telekom has a plan to move T-Mobile USA forward as it transitions to LTE, Deutsche Telekom CFO Timotheus Höttges said the carrier is "not a problem" for the company. Speaking at the 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, he said that in the aftermath of AT&T's (NYSE:T) failed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile, DT took the $6 billion breakup fee, including AWS spectrum in 128 markets, and developed a path forward. "There's always a perception that if these guys are selling an asset it must be a problem child," Höttges said. "It is not a problem for us. And that is due to the fact that we have a clear path toward LTE. It is definitely a big opportunity in the marketplace." The DT CFO said that the $1.4 billion the company will spend this year and next year to upgrade T-Mobile's network--and the $4 billion in investments over time--will be all "self-funding" and come from cash flow T-Mobile generates in the United States. He said at the end of the network upgrade, T-Mobile will have 2X10 MHz channels for LTE in almost every ...

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

Mobile game developers are competing in one of the most difficult of all mobile application markets. Although the mobile game market is full of promise, it does not offer financial success to the vast majority of developers. The market is also entering a period of change, which will intensify competition. Mobile games are played by 101 million people in the United States, according to a recent study by Newzoo. Worldwide, the revenues are substantial. Juniper Research recently projected that the global mobile games market will be worth $18.3 billion by 2016. While some companies such as Rovio and Zynga have struck it rich, that type of success is the exception rather than the rule, as most game developers struggle to make meaningful revenues. Special Report

Clearwire may not be the strongest company financially, but it does have one thing going for it — spectrum. The wireless service provider has a lot of spectrum and it hopes to use this wireless asset to produce big, fat mobile pipes capable of download speeds as high as 168 Mbps. Much of the spectrum Clearwire owns is in the 2.5 GHz range and its owns a wide band. Clearwire CTO John Saw talked during CTIA about using carrier aggregation to lump this spectrum together and offer 4G broadband speed

The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of voice termination services and data services such as messaging, signaling and roaming, for many of the world's largest fixed and mobile operators and VoBB service providers. iBasis customers include KPN and ...

RESTON, Va. -- Nexius, the leader in delivering end-to-end wireless services and software solutions to industries worldwide, today announced its agenda and activities for International CTIA WIRELESS 2012, the premier marketplace for wireless, telecom and broadband as well as the key vertical markets that have entered into wireless. CTIA 2012 will be held May 8-10, 2012, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. At the conference, Nexius will be exhibiting in booth number 5363. Th

French operators won’t begin rolling out their LTE networks until this summer, but once they do, Wireless Intelligence projects they will add 4G subscribers at a steady clip until they hit 10 million connections in 2017.

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

U.S. wireless carriers could see the worst net customer additions in years during the first quarter, according to a research note from investment banking firm Jefferies & Company. The firm said that the U.S. wireless industry as a whole could experience its first ever net loss of postpaid subscribers during the period. "A Jefferies proprietary handset survey suggests volume expectations for 1Q are the weakest in years, in line with our view that net adds are significantly lower in the quarter after an iPhone launch," wrote Jefferies analysts Thomas Seitz and Kunal Madhukar in a recent note. The firm warned that there is typically a lull in carrier subscriber additions the quarter after Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) launches a new iPhone. Apple launched its new iPhone 4S during the fourth quarter of last year. Jefferies analysts wrote that the lull in the first quarter could be the biggest ever due to sluggish smartphone sales and lowered customer demand. Perhaps more importantly, the firm warned the lethargic growth could continue. "Over the longer term, we believe the wireless industry faces the twin headwinds of 100%+ penetration and, eventually, decelerating smartphone additions as the base reaches saturation," Jefferies' analysts wrote. "Voice revenues ...