4G World Archive
4G World: MetroPCS plays the equal-opportunity operator
COO Tom Keys wants to turn Metro's current marketing mantra Wireless for All into LTE for all...
4G World: Sprint says it remains committed to unlimited smartphone data
Sprint provides more guidance on how it will manage the transition to LTE and the delicate balancing act it will require...
Best of 4G Awards: Small cells, smart networks rule the day
Connected Planet pitched in last night to help the Yankee Group announce the winners of the award winners at its 4G World event...
4G World: Verizon exploring small cells for adding future capacity
A new heterogeneous network architecture would allow Verizon to deploy a small cell underlay beneath its macro network while using the same spectrum...
4G World: IP.Access unifying femto, small cell gateway
New gateway attempts to bridge private coverage-focused femtos with public capacity-focused small cells...
4G World: Shared mobile data plans on the rise -- if networks allow
Family minutes bundles are the norm, but mobile operators need to tweak their networks and systems to support shared mobile data plans and other sophisticated usage schemes, Infonetics says...
The LTE signaling challenge
As 4G networks scale, carriers are finding one of the biggest challenges to keeping networks up and running is scaling the signaling and control plane. Overloads, as some operators have already found, can take a 4G network down in a snap – and it may get worse before it gets better....
A tale of two Sprints: What if Sprint severs ties with Clearwire?
A two-part series: Sprint with Clearwire is a very different company than Sprint without Clearwire. In Part II: Sprint with Clearwire's assets would become a 4G juggernaut, capable of maintaining its unlimited data policies and assured of its mobile broadband future...
A tale of two Sprints: Can Sprint really go it alone?
A two part-series: Sprint with Clearwire is a very different company than Sprint without Clearwire. In part one: If Sprint cuts its ties with its 4G provider it likely will have to overhaul its mobile broadband business model, starting with its treasured unlimited data pans. Come back for part two tomorrow....
Sprint strikes out on its own with LTE
Committing to deploying LTE over its own PCS spectrum, Sprint backs away from Clearwire and its enormous spectrum holdings...
Best of 4G Awards: An insider's view on the finalists, trends
The annual awards celebrating the best in 4G will be announced at 4G World later this month. Today: a quick, sneak-peak look at the finalists and some thoughts about what it all means....
Mobile hot-buttons: Spectrum, small-cell networks and Wi-Fi offload
Is there really a spectrum crisis? This key question kicked off a special Road to 4G World webcast courtesy of Connected Planet and Yankee Group, with speakers from Telstra and Alcatel-Lucent. Also on the agenda: small-cell networks, mobile offload via Wi-Fi and the latest trends in data pricing....
Can Clearwire build a TD-LTE ecosystem?
It couldn't do it around WiMAX, but there’s still hope for its new pet technology. But its success or failure largely rests on finding other carriers (for instance, China Mobile) and device makers (especially Apple) to support it....
Verizon Wireless throttles with a light touch
In an effort to make its new bandwidth management policies as innocuous as possible, Verizon is scaling back speeds to its highest-volume unlimited customers only when network congestion is present...
Huawei's LTE influence quietly grows
It may not be supplying Verizon and AT&T, but Huawei picks up rural carrier LTE wins and upgrades with Clearwire and Bell Canada...
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