Mobile Broadband
Verizon Wireless announces activation of 4G LTE wireless broadband in 28 new markets
Verizon wireless announced they will be activating 4G LTE networks in 28 new markets this Thursday. Louisiana will be getting the 4G LTE network in the Houma/Thibodaux and Lake Charles areas. Massachusetts will see the Hyannis/Mid-Cape area activated also. The Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area of Michigan will see a ...
Sprint 4G LTE Tri-Fi Hotspot announced at CTIA 2012 conference
Sprint just announced a new piece of mobile broadband equipment that is sure to become their best selling device. I say that because it is happy with any of Sprint’s signals: 3G, WiMAX and 4G LTE. The Sprint 4G LTE Tri-Fi Hotspot is a versatile unit that can work on all ...
Leap Wireless to add more tiers to its data plans
The CEO of Leap Wireless International, Doug Hutcheson is looking at adding more tiers to Leap’s data plans. Leap offers the Cricket wireless broadband, His reasoning is that adding more tiers to the data plans on the pay-as-you-go data plans will help people manage their data usage better. The new tiers ...
LTE-Advanced is coming soon to a broadband provider near you
Broadband providers will be starting the tests on LTE-A (LTE-Advanced). How do we know this? The test equipment vendors are announcing their new LTE-A test equipment. For those who may have a fuzzy understanding of LTE-A, there is a fuzzy, approximate answer as to what it is. Basically, a LTE-A device ...
T-Mobile keeps its current vendors for 4G LTE network
T-Mobile will not be dumping the vendors as other wireless providers have done when they started bringing on the 4G LTE networks. NSN (Nokia Siemens Networks) will be building out T-Mobile’s 4G LTE network, and they will be quite busy. Over 37,000 cell sites will be deployed. Each of those wireless ...
U.S. Cellular revises its broadband data plans
U.S. Cellular has revised their wireless broadband data plans. They believe that this move will help them stem the tide of dwindling customers. They are in very good shape financially as was announced by CEO Mary Dillon in U.S. Cellular’s Q1 earnings report. However, they are still losing customers. Under the old ...
AT&T CEO sorry for offering unlimited data plan for the iPhone
AT&T’s CEO, Randall Stephenson said he was sorry that AT&T offered an unlimited wireless broadband data plan for the iPhone. AT&T lost a lot of money by adopting that model. Randall lamented that the $30 “all you can eat” menu item really hurt the bottom line as far as profitability goes. ...
New fund for mobile broadband introduced by FCC
There are a lot of dead zones in the United States where you cannot get wireless broadband. If you think momentary dead zones drive you crazy, just take a look at the map of areas on which the FCC would like companies to concentrate. All of the black areas on the ...
Pioneer activates first rural LTE in Rural America network
Pioneer Cellular is definitely a pioneer as it became the first partner in Verizon Wireless’ “LTE in Rural America” network. This is the start of an ingenious plan that will bring 4G LTE broadband into the rural areas. Verizon is leasing its upper 700 MHz bandwidth to some rural wireless operators. ...
T-Mobile pushing for new legislation for auctions of additional wireless broadband spectrum
T-Mobile has been very vocal about fighting Verizon’s latest purchase offer for additional AWS C-band licenses. It seems to me that they are just trying to get more for themselves, which makes perfectly good business sense. A week ago, on April 26th, California Congresswoman Doris Matsui and Floridian Congressman Cliff Stearns ...
