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Sprint Q2 2013 results: $1.6 billion loss, record high ARPU

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 30 Jul 2013 3:11 am
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Final iDEN shutdown and Network Vision investments continue to hurt the bottom line Sprint has posted its Q2 2013 earnings, and amidst a whole bunch of changes for the nation's third-largest carrier it has a big of a mixed bag in terms of earnings. Here are the highlights for Sprint this quarter: $8.87 billion operating revenues, up slightly year-over-year $1.6 billion net loss and $874...

Europe to get its own LTE-enabled Nexus 7

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 24 Jul 2013 3:42 pm
Nexus 7 specs
If you watched Google's San Francisco presentation today and felt a little left out when only U.S. carrier support was mentioned for the new Nexus 7, fear not. Google's official spec sheet for the upcoming 7-inch tablet confirms that a European LTE-compatible SKU will be offered, with support for a whopping seven bands. The spec sheet shows support for 800, 850, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100 and 2600...

Sprint LTE hits Brooklyn, the Bronx on July 30

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 24 Jul 2013 9:14 am
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Sprint today announced that it'll officially launch LTE data in two New York boroughs — Brooklyn and the Bronx — on July 30. Parts of Manhattan, Staten Island and Queens are coming later this year, but you testing is already underway, and you might already be seeing LTE signals. In addition, Sprint said it'll bring service to all 277 underground subway stations in New York. You'll start seeing...

EE 4G live in ten more markets, 'double-speed' hits three more cities

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 24 Jul 2013 9:10 am
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EE, the UK's only 4G LTE operator, has announced that LTE network has gone live in ten new towns. From today, 4G services have been switched on in Altrincham, Bedford, Camberley, Crawley, Farnborough, Farnham , Maidstone, Rochdale, Tonbridge and Welwyn Garden City. What's more, EE's faster "double speed" 2x20MHz LTE has arrived in an additional three British cities — Belfast, Newcastle and...

Sprint to utilize Clearwire 2.5GHz spectrum for LTE starting this week

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 15 Jul 2013 1:53 pm
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New higher frequency to support current 800 and 1900MHz network Sprint has finally completed its acquisition of Clearwire, and the carrier has announced today that it is quickly integrating the new spectrum to its expanding LTE offerings. Adding to its primarily 1900MHz-based network, Sprint has recently added 800MHz spectrum from its iDEN network shutdown and is now adding in new 2.5GHz...

Sprint completes its acquisition of Clearwire

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 9 Jul 2013 11:11 am
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Third-place carrier gobbles up Clearwire for $5 per share Sprint has completed its acquisition of Clearwire, the U.S. carrier has announced. Sprint, which already held a majority stake in Clearwire, and is itself to be acquired by Japan's SoftBank, said in a press release today that it had purchased the company for $5 per share. As such, SoftBank will walk away with both Sprint and 100 percent...

'Double speed' EE 4G launched in 12 UK cities

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 4 Jul 2013 8:42 am
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Download speeds of 40Mbps or more enabled by new 2x20MHz LTE network As promised, network operator EE has launched "double speed" 4G LTE in some twelve British cities today. The new, faster speeds are enabled by allocating more of EE's spectrum to its LTE network — it's now using 2x20MHz of 1800MHz spectrum instead of 2x10MHz. This brings theoretical transfer rates of up to 150Mbps, with real...

EE 'double speed' LTE officially launches July 4

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 3 Jul 2013 5:26 am
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Sharing plans to launch July 17, MasterCard-based mobile payments system on the way too Mobile network EE, currently the only operator to offer 4G LTE services in the UK, has announced that its new "double speed" LTE services will officially launch starting tomorrow, July 4. Initially the new, faster service, which promises "headline" speeds of up to 80Mbps, will be available in some 12 towns...

AT&T expands LTE network with nearly three dozen new or improved locations

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 2 Jul 2013 3:21 am
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As it seems to do on a nearly weekly basis, AT&T is rolling out new or improved LTE service to 35 new markets across the United States, with expansion to a handful of others. That brings AT&T's nationwide total to 326 markets. It's a pretty sizable list, so we're going to do it all after the break. But users with LTE-capable devices and the proper provisioning on their account should see...

Sprint finally shuts down iDEN, but how fast will it translate into improved LTE?

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 30 Jun 2013 12:36 am
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New cash and spectrum give Sprint lots of potential, but it still needs to execute on its (Network) Vision We've known about the impending shutdown of Sprint's legacy iDEN network for a long time now, and this is finally the last full day of service for the network. There are likely very few handsets, and even fewer running Android, up and on the iDEN network today, but Sprint flipping the...

Verizon's LTE network 'substantially complete' with 500th city

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 27 Jun 2013 9:48 am
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Verizon this morning announced that the fine folks of Parkersburg, WVa., are the proud recipients of its 500th 4G LTE market, and that the rollout of its high-speed data is "substantially complete," blanketing 99 percent of its network. Verizon says more than 95 percent of the U.S. population — some 298 million people — have access to its LTE network. (Though obviously they're not all Verizon...

EE expands LTE coverage to 11 more UK towns

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 27 Jun 2013 5:35 am
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Total markets now 85 as EE claims 55 percent population coverage for 4G​ EE, currently the only 4G LTE operator in the UK, has announced that it's expanded it's 4G network coverage to 11 new towns this morning. From today, EE's LTE goes live in Aldershot, Basildon, Basingstoke, Bracknell, Hitchin, Horsham, Leatherhead, Letchworth, Stevenage, Warrington and Weston-super-Mare, bringing the total...

AT&T LTE expands or rolls out in seven new markets across the US

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 26 Jun 2013 1:20 am
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Another week, another grouping of markets getting or expanding their AT&T LTE network footprint. Each time we get a new set of cities they seem to be smaller and smaller, indicating that AT&T has covered many of the largest markets and is working to fill out its complete nationwide network. Users in the following cities with LTE-enabled devices and the correct plan provisioning should see...

Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A announced as world's first LTE-Advanced smartphone

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Posted by Casey Rendon on 25 Jun 2013 11:04 pm
Galaxy S4 Developer Edition
Launching this summer in Korea in Blue Arctic and Red Aurora Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy S4 LTE-A, the first smartphone ever to use LTE-Advanced technology. Samsung promises "twice-as-fast network speeds to produce an unparalleled multimedia experience." LTE-Advanced works by combining different frequencies, and using them as one -- something Samsung refers to as "leveraging...

AT&T launching or expanding LTE network in nine new markets

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 19 Jun 2013 2:56 am
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New network equipment going live in new markets across the U.S. As it regularly does, AT&T is keeping us up to date on the rollout status of its LTE network. This week, the carrier is lighting up or expanding its network in 9 different markets, listed below: New Bedford, Massachusetts Gallup, New Mexico Rio Grande Valley, Texas Tuscaloosa, Alabama Florence-Muscle Shoals...

Sprint fires up LTE in nearly 2 dozen new cities

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 17 Jun 2013 10:21 am
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Next round of LTE upgrades also announced​ Sprint today announced that it's turned on high-speed LTE data in 22 new locations. They are: Baton Rouge, La. Centralia, Wash. Clarksville, Tenn. Corsicana, Texas Dalton, Ga. Dunn, N.C. Fond du Lac, Wis. Gainesville, Fla. Henderson, N.C. Kingsport, Tenn. Lansing/East Lansing, Mich. Longview, Wash....

Samsung to launch LTE-Advanced Galaxy S4

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 17 Jun 2013 7:21 am
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Qualcomm-powered LTE-Advance​d handset headed to Korea 'as early as this month' Samsung is aiming to launch the first smartphone supporting the faster LTE-Advanced wireless data standard, company co-CEO JK Shin has revealed. Speaking to reporters at Samsung headquarters in Suwon, South Korea, Shin said the new, LTE-A-capable Galaxy S4 could go on sale as early as this month in Korea. Reuters...

T-Mobile ahead of schedule bringing MetroPCS customers to its network

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 14 Jun 2013 6:01 pm
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Two new HSPA+ and LTE devices now available directly from MetroPCS stores MetroPCS is now ready to start selling devices that run on T-Mobile's HSPA+ network, marking the beginning of customer migration to T-Mobile US, the carriers announced today with a press release. Following the announcement earlier this week that MetroPCS customers in a few select cities -- Boston, Las Vegas and Hartford...

Galaxy Note 8.0 with AT&T LTE lands 'in the coming weeks'

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 12 Jun 2013 1:09 pm
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
It's been just a couple weeks since we saw the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 with AT&T's brand of LTE on board swing through the FCC, and today it's official. AT&T will carry the Galaxy Note 8.0. With LTE. "In the coming weeks." No word on an exact date, or pricing. Basic specs stand as have have for the version we previously reviewed, with a 1.6GHz quad-core Exynos 4410 CPU with 2GB of RAM....

AT&T LTE launches or expands in over a dozen markets

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 12 Jun 2013 2:41 am
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Several new markets across the U.S. will be seeing new or expanding AT&T LTE network coverage starting today, bringing faster network performance all around. Users in the following cities with LTE-enabled devices and accounts should see the network go live: Flagstaff and Sedona, Arizona Quad Cities and Sterling, Illinois El Dorado-Magnolia, Arkansas Southern New Jersey Shore...

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