AT&T Mobility says it will step up its 3G buildout, expanding its high-speed mobile service to more than 80 additional cities in 2008. The planned expansion will provide AT&T 3rd generation (3G) high-speed data services to nearly 350 leading U.S. markets by the end of 2008, including all of the top 100 U.S. cities. The [...]
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Verizon Wireless selects LTE as 4th Generation Wireless Technology
Verizon Wireless has confirmed plans to use Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology as its 4th Generation (4G) technology. Today, Verizon Wireless uses CDMA2000 technology and most of the rest of the world (including Verizon Wireless’ European half-parent Vodafone Group Plc.) uses W-CDMA (also called UMTS) for 3G services. These two technologies are similar but are [...]
Qualcomm enables laptops with both EV-DO and HSPA
Qualcomm launched on a Wednesday a dual-3G chip with EV-DO and HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) for laptops. This will enable laptop makers to embed a WWAN chip that can handle any of the two most dominant cellular broadband technologies in the world. Currently, laptops are available with embedded chips that work with either AT&T’s [...]
How Clearwire Got a Content Team Overnight
Amp’d Mobile did two things great (and nothing else worth mentioning): one was to offer cool handsets. The other was to offer a really exciting deck of content (for example, Lil’ Bush). Well, now that Amp’d Mobile is no more, Clearwire has apparently acquired Amp’d Mobile’s 50-plus member content team to lead a new content [...]
Sprint and Clearwire is a win for WiMAX
Sprint and Clearwire, the two companies rushing to build a nationwide WiMAX network, just announced an agreement to collaborate on building a nationwide network by the end of 2008. By working together, Sprint and Clearwire the first coast-to-coast WiMAX network and will do it sooner than by going alone. The companies plan to market mobile [...]
Clearwire to go mobile….soon
Clearwire, the upstart WiMAX provider, recently announced plans to expand from just a DSL/cable modem replacement service to offer a mobile service as well. Going mobile is no surprise for WiMAX – it is the whole point in the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard. Clearwire Chief Strategy Officer Scott Richardson laid out plans to migrate to a [...]
DIRECTV and EchoStar join Clearwire for some Triple-Play
DIRECTV and EchoStar, two Satellite TV providers, are about to boost their firepower in their fight against the cable companies, who have been giving the Satellite TV providers a good beating with attractively-priced triple-play package of video, phone and high speed Internet . Today, Clearwire, an upstart WiMAX provider, made a cross-selling marketing agreement iwth [...]
