Mobile data growth accelerating worldwide, led by smartphone users
Mobile traffic globally is soaring, and its rate of growth is accelerating, spurred by a surge in smartphones and tablets, as well as 4G connections.
Mobile traffic globally is soaring, and its rate of growth is accelerating, spurred by a surge in smartphones and tablets, as well as 4G connections.
You've decided you want to live in the fast lane, and embrace LTE. But which phone do you choose?
It looks as though Verizon's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/121611-verizon-cox-spectrum-254182.html">cable spectrum deals</a> won't fly under the radar after all.
Separate reports Wednesday morning show that Research in Motion, despite being battered this year for everything from outages to late products to lost market share, hasn’t been without its admirers.
Verizon says that it has restored its LTE data services less than a day <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/120811-verizon-wireless-reports-4g-lte-253863.html">after acknowledging some customers had been knocked down to 3G speeds</a>.
Sprint may be axing its unlimited 4G plans for most devices but at least it's making sure you pay less for what you use.
CHICAGO -- Carriers, chipset makers and device manufactures this week threw something of a coming-of-age party on behalf of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/3g-4g.html">4G</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wireless.html">wireless</a> technologies.
CHICAGO -- While Sprint and AT&T have been clashing for months over the latter's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032011-att-tmobile-acquisition-pundits.html">proposed merger with T-Mobile</a>, they can surely still agree on the value of spectrum auctions, right?
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Sprint's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/031511-4g-breakdown.html">4G</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wireless.html">wireless</a> service can be used by enterprise customers as an alternative to T-1 lines, a Sprint executive said today.
Verizon and Sprint have seven of the top 10 "4G" <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/061510-smartphone-history.html">smartphones</a> on the market right now, according to new data from analytics firm Localytics.
With the market flush with hot-selling tablet computers, it shouldn't bowl anyone over to learn that many users are taking the plunge and bringing their devices to the bathroom.
Samsung and Verizon Wireless announced Tuesday that an <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wimax-lte.html">LTE</a> version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, one of the few tablets to date that critics have called a viable opponent to the Apple iPad, will be available July 28.
If there's one telecom company that knows about the follies of supporting two distinct types of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wireless.html">wireless</a> technologies at once, it's Sprint.
While WiMax has lost the battle to be the 4G technology of choice for most U.S. consumer handsets, it's still alive and kicking in the enterprise market.
Although T-Mobile won't be switching to LTE anytime soon, it is certainly getting its money's worth from its HSPA+ network.