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by Alex Dobie
May 17, 2013
PCS spectrum and 420,000 U.S. Cellular customers part of deal
Sprint has announced that it's closed a deal to purchase PCS spectrum and a large number of customers from U.S. Cellular in the ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 20, 2013
The UK's long-delayed 4G spectrum auction has completed today, resulting in the sale of 800MHz and 2600MHz airwaves to the country's largest operators for a total of £2.3 billion.
Her...
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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 22, 2013
AT&T has announced today that it will completely acquire the Alltel brand and assets from Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. for $780 million in cash. This purchase encompasses all of the Alltel a...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 19, 2012
The FCC approved multiple measures today that will in the end see AT&T receiving a diverse grouping of spectrum from several different companies. The different bits of spectrum all fall into the...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 18, 2012
The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has just published the rules it will apply to a spectrum auction for the AWS-H Block. We saw last week that the FCC finally approved Dish's proposal t...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 17, 2012
The ever developing LTE saga in the UK is potentially about to get another chapter. Following a 2010 Government spending review, the Ministry of Defence was forced to sell off at least 500MHz o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 17, 2012
Sprint this morning announced that, as rumored, it will pick up the rest of Clearwire for $2.97 a share, or about $2.2 billion. The purchase of the rest of Clearwire's shares (remember that...
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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
Nov 07, 2012
AT&T has just released its plans regarding a massive investment in both its wireless and wireline infrastructure. Over the next three years, AT&T plans to invest a total of $14 billion ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 07, 2012
Sprint this morning announced that it will acquire from US Cellular 20 MHz of spectrum in the 1900 MHz band in Midwest markets including Chicago, South Bend, Ind., and Champaign, Ill. It'll also...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 31, 2012
The FCC has just released information detailing a deal between AT&T and a company called Broadband Wireless Unlimited for 700MHz spectrum in several markets around the country. Concerned pa...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 22, 2012
Verizon has announced that they're rolling out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the LG Lucid and LG Spectrum. We had already heard that the Spectrum would be getting an update soon, so this doe...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 18, 2012
Sprint has kept itself in the news cycle pretty intensely in the last few weeks -- what with all of that getting bought by Softbank and such -- and now it has another big announcement. Today Sprint ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 18, 2012
The FCC here in the U.S. has just approved a plan by AT&T that would let it use spectrum holdings it previously acquired. For several years now, AT&T has held 30MHz of WCS spectrum, but was ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 05, 2012
Speaking yesterday at the University of Pennsylvania, chairman of the FCC Julius Genachowski explained how he plans to release another 300MHz of wireless spectrum to high speed wireless carrier...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 25, 2012
Spectrum talk isn't sexy, but it's damned important. And this morning T-Mobile and Verizon announced a deal that's going to benefit both carriers. T-Mobile's snagging more AWS spectr...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 20, 2012
Verizon has published the support documents for an upcoming LG Spectrum update, and going on the history of such matters, we expect an over-the-air update rather soon. It's not the Ice Cream San...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 16, 2012
And that, as they say, is that. Sprint this morning announced that its spectrum deal with LightSquared is officially over, and the two companies will go their separate ways. LightSquared'...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 13, 2012
Ofcom proposal paves the way for first UK 4G LTE
network launch later in the year
British smartphone users have had to watch from the sidelines as North American and Asian carriers roll out ev...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 06, 2012
No real surprises here -- the XYBOARDS already had been announced, same for the Xoom and the Rezound. It's good to see the ThunderBolt and Droid Incredible 2 make it.
Here's the ful...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 27, 2012
Our LG Spectrum review comes at an interesting time for both the smartphone manufacturer as well the carrier on which it resides, Verizon. On one hand you have LG, which has brought us some excellen...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 26, 2012
Fire up your brand new LG Spectrum tonight and you'll likely see a wee update waiting for you. The mere 10.09-megabyte update takes you to software version VS920ZV4 and does the following:
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 19, 2012
Verizon this morning announced that as expected, the LG Spectrum is now available in stores and online for $199. The Spectrum, as you'll recall from our recent hands-on, is a 4.5-inch Android 2....
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by Simon Sage
Jan 11, 2012
Read our LG Spectrum Review
Verizon announced the LG Spectrum here at CES, and we took some time to try it out. It's got a nice 4.5-inch 720p display, a dual-core 1.5 GHz processor, and it&#...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 09, 2012
Following its press conference earlier today, LG Mobile has announced the LG Spectrum, which will be headed to Verizon wireless starting next Thursday, Jan. 19. Essentially, it's Verizon's v...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 05, 2012
4.5″ True HD IPS display, with Gorilla Glass
1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon
8MP rear camera
1.3MP front camera
1GB of RAM
4GB of on-board storage, 16GB micro ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 05, 2012
While nothing is official until Verizon says it's official -- especially when you're talking about Verizon -- it looks like we'll be seeing the LG Spectrum hitting the shelves at Big Red...
