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Frustrated iPhone users on AT&T’s network should think twice before moving to Verizon’s network. Wired says: Ookla, creators of the Speedtest.net broadband test, compiled data from tests run by iPhone customers using the Speedtest.net app on both AT&T and Verizon. On average, the reported AT&T iPhone transfer rates were roughly two times faster than the [...]
Well the Motorola Xoom is officially out in the wild at Verizon Wireless, and while it may very well be the first “real 4G” tablet to hit the market you will still have to wait to find out if there are any additional charges waiting for anyone who wants to use the Xoom on Verizon’s faster [...]
Amtrak has decided to expand free WiFi service on its trains: “Amtrak plans to install AmtrakConnect on Northeast Corridor services and on more West Coast trains by the end of this year. With the recent selection of Nomad Digital as its preferred technology provider for nation-wide deployment, the Amtrak labor forces at the Ivy City [...]
Wang Jianzhou, CEO of China Mobile, to the audience at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week that Wi-Fi should be the default for mobile users because smartphones and tablets are killing cellular networks. At the opening keynote, he made the following remarks: Handset makers should embed Wi-Fi and make it the default connection. [...]
Another large tech conference means another barrage of news reports and complaints from attendees about how the Wi-Fi service sucked. CNN reports: There were dozens of Wi-Fi networks at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. But with more than 60,000 people in attendance, the systems were so overloaded that there may as well have [...]
Last week President Obama outlined a Wireless Innovation and Infrastructure Initiative that promises high-speed “4G” mobile broadband for 98% of Americans while raising over $27 billion from spectrum auctions to pay for a nationwide, interoperable public safety network and other innovations. Central to America’s wireless future is the need to double the spectrum capacity currently [...]
On a year-end financial conference call that left most of the big questions surrounding its business unanswered, nascent national WiMAX provider Clearwire Thursday nevertheless retained a bullish outlook on its ongoing operations, even predicting the possibility of becoming profitable as early as 2012. While denying rumors that it would close down or cease its retail [...]
With no inside knowledge, we are still expecting that Thursday’s scheduled Q4/2010 yearly earnings call from nascent national WiMAX provider Clearwire will yield some solid news about the company’s path forward, including a full explanation of the rumors that say Clearwire will ditch retail operations and focus on being a wholesale provider to partners like [...]
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today unveiled the National Broadband Map — the first public, searchable nationwide map of broadband Internet availability — and the results of a new nationwide survey on broadband adoption. Some of the survey’s results are quite positive: 5 – 10 percent of Americans lack access [...]
Cox’s “Unbelievably Fair” advertising campaign will begin this week in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. The debut of this campaign officially signals Oklahoma as Cox’s next market to receive wireless service. To date, the company’s wireless service is currently available in Hampton Roads, Va., Omaha, Neb. and Orange County, Calif. “Cox’s Unbelievably Fair wireless service is [...]
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