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Feb

7

2012

LightSquared Requesting the FCC Require Stricter GPS Device Standards

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by Josh O'Donnell
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LightSquared, the company which has spent billions of dollars developing a whole-sale only wireless broadband network, filed a document with the FCC regarding stricter standards of GPS devices. LightSquared believes that signals that are used as part of GPS bands are the culprit of interference on the spectrum that they’ve chose to use for their [...]

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Jan

23

2012

AT&T, T-Mobile Ask FCC for Approval of $1 billion Spectrum Transfer

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by Stacy Bruce
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AT&T and T-Mobile have filed an application with the FCC asking for their approval to transfer $1 billion worth of AT&T’s AWS spectrum over to T-Mobile. AT&T had already promised the spectrum to T-Mobile as a part of the failed $39 billion merger deal that went TU in [...]

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Dec

14

2011

Verizon to Expand 4G Coverage Tomorrow, Will Now Cover up to 190 Markets

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by Stacy Bruce
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Last month we heard about Verizon’s plans to expand its LTE network even further. Until today, we didn’t know exactly which areas were going to receive coverage and many readers were hoping they would be next. If you are still without access to the nations largest 4G network, then you might want to pay attention [...]

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Nov

16

2011

T-Mobile Launches 42Mbps network, expands 21Mbps to 9 Additional Markets

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by Stacy Bruce
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Today, T-Mobile officially announced that they will be kicking off their high-speed, 42Mbps network in a total of 11 markets, and expanding their 21Mbps coverage in nine others. Areas that will be the first to enjoy the HSPA+ 42 launch are: Bend, Medford and Corvallis, Oregon; Benton Harbor, Michigan; Bloomington, Champaign–Urbana and Springfield, Illinois; Columbus, [...]

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Nov

7

2011

[Leak] US Cellular to Launch New 4G Network With Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab?

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by Stacy Bruce
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If there is any truth to the latest rumor that was fed to Phandroid, US Cellular appears to be gaining clout with device manufacturers. A tipster, said to be an employee at US Cellular, has provided an internal document showing a couple of impressive upcoming devices made by Samsung. If you have already studied the [...]

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Oct

11

2011

Verizon announces more 4G LTE locations

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by Stacy Bruce
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We are down in San Diego this week for CTIA 2011 and have the first bit of news from Verizon Wireless. Big Red made an announcement today confirming the addition of  more locales that will receive “blazing fast” 4G LTE capability. All new locations should be active by November 17th and the list is as [...]

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Oct

4

2011

More Connectivity Problems Reported On Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G Touch

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by Justin Routhier
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Epic 4G Touch owners on the Sprint network are reporting connectivity problems such as an abundance of dropped calls and slow-crawling data speeds. This comes just weeks after reports of unexpected force-closes with its calendar app and the inability to keep 4G hotspot connections while taking phone calls. The exact cause for these newest problems is [...]

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Sep

21

2011

Verizon Wireless will add 21 cities to their 4G LTE network on October 21

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by Robert Nazarian
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Every month Verizon Wireless seems to add at least 20 cities to their rapidly growing 4G LTE network. Last week we saw 26 cities join the party, and in looking ahead to October, 21 additional cities will go live on October 21st. We posted about this yesterday, but we did not have the complete list. [...]

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Aug

6

2011

T-mobile Investigating Battery Issues on All Android Devices Using Their Network

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by Ryan Brooks
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Android users on the T-mobile network may be in for a shock, as a sudden and violent drop in battery life appears to be sweeping across the board. There is a thread on the T-mobile forums addressing the issue, but employees seem to be at a loss. There is a suspicion that changes to the [...]

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