3G/4G News
LightSquared adds money woes to GPS and Falcone problems
LightSquared's money situation isn't looking good, with only enough to get it to Q2, says Reuters. The funding woes join the LTE-hopeful's growing list of problems. ...
It's over: AT&T ends T-Mobile bid
In a painful end to an ill-fated buy-out attempt, the company said it is ending its bid for rival T-Mobile. Up next: a $4 billion make-good payment to DT and a world in which rival Verizon Wireless just gobbled up massive amounts of spectrum from cable rivals (pending approval, of course)...
Verizon continues to gobble up MSO spectrum, Cox next on board
The mobile operator builds on its big buy-out earlier this month with a deal that acquires more AWS spectrum to fuel its 4G expansion...
Clearwire raises $715.5 million toward LTE buildout
Clearwire, through sales of common stock and help from Sprint, has raised $715.5 million toward building out a TDD-LTE 4G network. Now for the hard part......
LightSquared denies 4G network still endangering GPS
LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja, livid over reports that the LightSquared network is still interfering with GPS signals, called on the Depts. of Defense and Transportation to clarify leaked data and investigate its source....
Q&A: Hong Kong CSL’s 'shocking' LTE customer experience discoveries
We talked with the mobile operator, among the first to launch LTE services, and uncovered a number of unexpected lessons learned as they experiment with 4G service....
AT&T at the bottom of another Consumer Reports survey
Verizon was the best of the top-four carriers, in a customer satisfaction survey, though the happiest users, says Consumer Reports, are those with regional and prepaid carriers. ...
Clearwire looking to raise $595 million to start LTE roll out
Clearwire, as suggested in its new deal with Sprint, is planning sales of stock that it hopes could bring in $595 million. Part of the money be used to deploy LTE over its WiMax infrastructure. ...
AT&T says FCC denied it a fair hearing, objective treatment
The commission blasted AT&T in a recent 109-page report; today the carrier fired back in caustic fashion....
NSN sheds WiMAX biz it bought from Motorola
Deal sells off the unit to NewNet Communications as the beleaguered vendor starts to shed assets and focus on what it believes are its biggest opportunities....
Cellular offload to Wi-Fi growing, and expected, says a new report
A Devicescape survey found 86% of respondents believe Wi-Fi is faster and cheaper than 3G, and 88% expect it. Good thing it's a cost-saver for carriers as well. ...
Nokia Siemens to slash 17,000 jobs
After failing to find a private buyer, the networking company today said it plans slash jobs and refocus around mobile broadband...
T-Mobile adds 20 4G markets, 11 with doubly fast HSPA+ 42
T-Mobile, adding 20 new 4G markets, has brought its total to 208, or 200 million people--keeping it ahead of Verizon and AT&T, though just barely....
AT&T, Verizon meet 2011 LTE goals
VZW has blown by its deployment targets while AT&T this week inched past its own; both initiatives are driving change and opportunity across the mobile ecosystem...
The long road to better mobile data pricing -- leaders and laggards identified
The latest survey from Allot shows mobile operators are well on their way to rationalizing mobile data pricing, but there’s a long road ahead...
Report argues for interoperability in broadband spectrum bands
AT&T and Verizon have delayed small carrier 700 MHz deployments, Information Age Economics authors argue. Report advocates mandatory interoperability for future sub-1 GHz spectrum auctions...
DragonWave to purchase NSN microwave transport unit
Move should expand DragonWave’s geographic reach and addressable market. Company also becomes a preferred NSN supplier...
Nokia, wanting to study consumer Wi-Fi use, offers free hotspots
London gains 26 free hotspots as Nokia and partner Spectrum Interactive look to study Wi-Fi use patterns. ...
Open Mobile Summit: LightSquared CEO walks thin line warning of ‘spectrum crunch’
As today’s kick-off keynoter, Sanjiv Ahuja said a lack of spectrum could stifle device and service innovation, even as the GPS industry ramps up criticism that LightSquared is taking a free ride in repurposing this valuable public resource. Engineering, not politics, is the answer, Ahuja claims....
MetroPCS new broader strategy faces pitfalls
Android is luring the customers in, but they don’t seem to be sticking around...
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