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by Simon Sage
Jan 19, 2012
AT&T's new plans are only really decent choices for moderate data users, but T-Mobile will be offering a few that are geared for more hardcore smartphone owners. A leaked internal memo is de...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 18, 2012
Good news and bad news here, for you folks in Peoria, Ill. You indeed are seeing fleeting Verizon 4G LTE signals in your fair city, according to the Journal Star. The bad news? You're still just...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 18, 2012
Remember last year when Virgin Mobile USA said they would be delaying their plans to throttle data for users who used more then 2.5GB in one month? At the time, they never gave any reason as to why ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 06, 2012
In case you missed it late last night, a report from Greg Bensinger of Dow Jones Newswires that stated Sprint is throttling the top 1 percent of its unlimited users was not correct. (Dow Jones has y...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 05, 2012
Sprint's making the jump from Wimax to LTE in 2012 (well, Wimax will keep working for some time), and CEO Dan Hesse just annouced the first markets for the new brand of 4G. They are:
Atl...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 29, 2011
Verizon's Twitter account this morning tells us that its latest 4G LTE outage has been resolved.
4GLTE issue resolved overnight. 3G operated normally; calling, texting were unaffected.
It...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 28, 2011
Hey, the good news is it's been a whole week since the last one.
More: Verizon LTE Down ... AGAIN!
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 27, 2011
Sony Ericsson today is sending out e-mails reminding folks (or chaps, since the e-mail we received was sent to our UK operation) that it's shutting down its Sony Ericcson Sync service on Dec. 29...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2011
Just got word back from Verizon spokeswoman Brenda Raney about the overnight/early morning 4G LTE outage. Here 'tis:
"Verizon Wireless 4G LTE service is returning to normal this morning...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2011
Update: Looks like data's starting to come back for some of us. Still no word from Verizon yet.
Well, that's no good. Verizon Wireless is dead in the water this morning for what appears to ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2011
Sprint today told Android Central that it is no longer using Carrier IQ to collect diagnostic data from its devices. The statement comes in response to our asking Sprint about an anonymously sourced...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2011
AT&T's responses to questions posed by U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., over the use of Carrier IQ analytics software are probably the most interesting we've seen thus far.
AT&T...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2011
Update: Sprint says it's no longer using Carrier IQ
Sprint, in its reponse to U.S. Sen. Al Franken over its use of the Carrier IQ software, goes into great detail about how and why it needs and...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 14, 2011
See what we did there (again)?
Verizon today announced that on Dec. 15 (that'd be tomorrow) it's adding the following cities to its 4G LTE roster:
Dover, Del.
Lafayette, Ind.
...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 13, 2011
Carrier IQ, the company that everyone -- for right or wrong -- has come to hate of late has released a document explaining in plain English how it does what it does. "Understanding Carrier IQ T...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2011
Our mantra around here is that you should aways start and end your day with Android Central -- we're the center of the Android Universe, after all. But when we're not busy stroking o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2011
Chalk up another carrier in the "No" column when it comes to Carrier IQ, apparently. Regional carrier US Cellular, in an internal memo, USC says unequivocably, "None of our devices ha...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 01, 2011
Carrier IQ has issued a new press release defending its business and reminding us all that it works not unilaterally, but for the operator -- the carrier. The nut:
Carrier IQ acts as an agent fo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 16, 2011
T-Mobile today announced that it's launching its high-speed, 42Mbps network in 11 new markets today, and expanding its 21Mbps network in nine others.
Included in the HSPA+ 42 launch are: Bend, ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 14, 2011
Sprint today is detailing new data plans for tablets and its mobile broadband (ie non-smartphone) devices, with several options for each. Here's the breakdown; all pricing includes 3G and 4G dat...
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by Jared DiPane
Nov 08, 2011
Just a few days ago we saw the HTC Thunderbolt get a semi-functional MIUI port, and today we were graced with the good news that the data and SMS issues have been resolved. Developer DroidVicious tw...
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by Chris Parsons
Nov 07, 2011
With the announcement of the Motorola Droid RAZR, Verizon also confirmed some new double data LTE plans to go along with it. More data is always a good thing, so we're gald to see it happening o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 07, 2011
Verizon's been teasing a Nov. 11 launch for the Motorola Droid RAZR, and this morning it's made it official. And, lining up with the news we broke last week, stores will open at 11:11 a.m. l...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 04, 2011
US Cellular this afternoon announced that it's launching a 4G LTE network in the first quarter of 2012, with select cities in six states getting the nod.
The markets that will initially have th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 27, 2011
Market research firm IDC has named Carrier IQ -- a name that provokes a cringe or two -- one of the "companies to watch" for analytics groups under $100 million in revenue. Because i...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 21, 2011
We already knew that Sprint was killing off unlimited data for the hotspot plan, but today's news makes everything all official. Starting in November, users with a mobile broadband plan (t...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Oct 17, 2011
T-Mobile has announced a few new additions to its pay-as-you-go 4G plans, available beginning today. For $60/month customers will receive unlimited talk, text and web with up to 2 GB data at 4G spee...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 16, 2011
Yep, looks like Verizon's in the midst of a pretty widespread data issue tonight, if you folks on Twitter are any indication. Could be worse, we suppose, but any outage is a bad outage, even if ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 07, 2011
We're knee deep into Sprint's "Strategy/Network" update. The big (yet unsurprising) news is that, yes, it's moving to LTE. It'll be run on Sprint's 1900 MHz spectrum, w...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 04, 2011
Well, that was quick. Just a couple days after a so-called "massive security vulnerability" was discovered in a few HTC phones, the Taiwanese manufacturer says a fix is on the way. Telling...
