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by Alex Dobie
May 25, 2013
Customers' data counters reset for holiday weekend
Good news for EE customers in the UK this weekend -- the operator has announced that by way of apology for network issues earlier this week...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 24, 2013
Poor network performance can handicap even the fastest of smartphones
This is the Sprint Galaxy S4. There are many others like it, but this one is Sprint’s. Externally, the phone bears no ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 22, 2013
T-Mobile may be testing its LTE network in several additional cities above the two that it has already announced are complete. According to data collected by OpenSignal, which makes diagnostic ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 20, 2013
There are still major markets in the U.S. that have yet to be touched by AT&T's LTE, but the number is dwindling further as the carrier adds several more markets this week. This group is mos...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 24, 2013
Earlier this month, Google applied with the FCC to create an experimental wireless network on its Mountain View campus. The network will initially cover a 2 mile radius of the Googleplex, and will r...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 04, 2013
AT&T is continuing its nationwide 4G LTE rollout today with several new markets going live with the service. As was the case with Verizon before it, AT&T is reaching the point where it has e...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 14, 2012
It's hard to find cities that don't have Verizon LTE coverage at this point, but they're still rolling it out. Big red is taking its new high-speed network to several new cities and town...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
Reports are indicating that Sprint will finally buy out the remaining 49-percent of Clearwire that it doesn't already own. Sprint finally took a controlling stake in Clearwire back in October, w...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
Dish has been battling with the FCC and other carriers over the possibility of using its current satellite spectrum holdings for a terrestrial cellular network. The TV operator turned carrier has fi...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 06, 2012
As part of an investment meeting, Deutsche Telekom announced today that it plans to make some major investments in the network infrastructure of its subsidiary, T-Mobile USA. First and foremost...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 08, 2012
Although Sprint's "Network Vision" project -- which will eventually move customers off of CDMA and to LTE -- is in full swing, the LTE network just isn't lighting up in as man...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 22, 2012
Today Sprint announced the activation of 4G LTE networks in Chicago suburbs (Addison, Bolingbrook, Des Plaines, Downers Grove, Kankakee, Rockford, Joliet, Naperville, Palatine, Plainfield), Illinois...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 17, 2012
"Proven alternative" to replace problem third-party database
If you're an O2 customer in the UK, you may have noticed the two recent bouts of downtime, which prevented a significan...
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by Sean Brunett
Oct 15, 2012
T-Mobile announced today that it has improved its 4G network in Kansas City and will continue this initiative in more markets later this year.
Anyone on T-Mobile who lives in Kansas City right now ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 10, 2012
You can toss this one onto your Google calendar -- Verizon will sunset its 2G and 3G CDMA networks nearly a decade from now. After recently announcing at CTIA MobileCON that it will launch its 400th...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 09, 2012
At a CTIA MobileCON press conference in San Diego, Verizon Wireless CTO Nicola Palmer announced that the company plans to launch its 400th LTE market just 9 days from now, two months earli...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 01, 2012
Rogers has just kicked off LTE service in a bunch of new regions, as expected. With this, they've nearly reached their goal of covering 60% of the Canadian population by th...
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by Simon Sage
Sep 19, 2012
Verizon has announced the launch of a bunch of brand new LTE markets today, in addition to some expansions planned for tomorrow. The newly-launched Verizon LTE markets include:
American Fall...
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by Simon Sage
Sep 17, 2012
Another day, another LTE launch; Sacramento, California is now bathed in AT&T LTE coverage. This follows closely on a bunch of expansions last week, and is a continuing part of AT&T'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 10, 2012
Sprint's been talking about its 4G LTE rollout -- which, along with an upgrade to its 3G speeds, is known as the "Network Vision" plan -- for what seems like forever. While in fact it ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 12, 2012
Update: O2 says its network has been restored for all customers affected by the recent downtime, and advises anyone still experiencing problems to restart their handset.
Original: T...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 11, 2012
British network O2 says it's experiencing problems on its network which are causing some customers to have "difficulty making or receiving calls, sending texts or using data." Bizarrel...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 24, 2012
Thermalx, in our T-Mobile HTC One S Q&A, writes,
I thought carriers had about stopped with the whole Carrier IQ thing. But according to this T-Mo doc, the One S has Carrier IQ, any thoughts ...
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by Sean Brunett
Apr 19, 2012
Earlier this month, AT&T announced plans to expand its LTE service to several new cities. Three of those cities goes live today:
Canton, Ohio
Akron, Ohio
Lafayette, Indiana
...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 03, 2012
AT&T this morning announced that Bloomington and Muncie, Ind., and Bryan-College Station, Texas, will see LTE data starting this Sunday, April 8. It's part of a 12-market expansion that also...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 13, 2012
T-Mobile today announced that it's flipped the switch on its HSPA+ 4G network on eight new cities. They are:
Abilene, Texas
Amarillo, Texas
Odessa, Texas
Victoria, Texa...
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by Android Central
Mar 13, 2012
Been getting e-mails from a bunch of you folks this morning saying that Verizon's data network is again struggling. Doesn't look like it's a nationwide outage, which is good, but we'...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 09, 2012
The third of Canada's big three carriers is finally launching their LTE network. Starting tomorrow, TELUS will be offering the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and LG Optimus, both with LTE connectivity. ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 30, 2012
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has reportedly identified "Android app traffic" as the cause of a recent network outage which affected some 2.5 million of its customers. According ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 19, 2012
This is getting interesting. After the recent news that federal testing determined LightSquared's LTE network plans would never work without interfering with GPS (and a cease to any furthe...
