AT&T to launch its LTE network in 5 cities this summer
AT&T said it will activate its LTE (Long-Term Evolution) wireless network this summer in five cities, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
AT&T said it will activate its LTE (Long-Term Evolution) wireless network this summer in five cities, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
T-Mobile USA on Monday implemented four new smartphone data pricing plans that force users down from fast 4G speeds to much slower 2G speeds if they exceed a set amount of data usage and don't opt for a more expensive plan.
AT&T recently demonstrated a fast 28.87 Mbps download speed during an LTE test at a Plano, Texas, lab, but an AT&T spokesman later warned not to extrapolate that speed for what real-world speeds will be when AT&T launches its LTE wireless network this summer.
Verizon Wireless will put the Droid Charge smartphone on sale Saturday morning, 16 days after it was first planned to hit store shelves.
Visa's plan to <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216616/Visa_to_launch_mobile_wallet_in_U.S._this_fall">launch a digital wallet system</a> in the U.S. and Canada this fall is by far the largest and most ambitious of any similar initiative announced by credit card processors, banks or wireless carriers.
Even though Verizon Wireless claims its fast LTE network is "up and running" following an April 26 outage, it's still not working for some customers, including 50 Chicago-based users of laptops with LTE modems.
Isis, a consortium of three major U.S. wireless carriers, has reportedly decided to back off plans for a new, separate mobile payment network and will instead work within traditional systems that include major credit card processors such as Visa and MasterCard for mobile transactions.
Motorola Solutions Tuesday introduced four 801.11n access points (APs) and a wireless LAN controller that can support up to 10,000 APs as part of its expanding wireless LAN portfolio.
Verizon Wireless said its 4G LTE network was "up and running" at 11 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, following a nationwide outage that began late Tuesday.
Verizon Wireless and LiveCast Media today announced 4G Mobile Reporter for use with Verizon's LTE network to send live high-definition video wirelessly with a laptop and USB modem.
Isis, a joint venture of three U.S. wireless carriers, on Tuesday announced that it's planning a pilot of smartphone-based mobile wallet technology in Salt Lake City in 2012.
Data caps on nearly all wireless and wired networks in the U.S. seem likely to be in place soon, despite the latest unlimited data offers from Verizon Wireless and Sprint.
The ThunderBolt smartphone from HTC has outsold the iPhone 4 at some Verizon Wireless stores, according to a survey of 150 stores by BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk.
AT&T today said it plans to turn on faster upload speeds for the Motorola Atrix 4G and HTC Inspire 4G sometime in April after incurring customer wrath for not offering the faster speeds when the devices launched in February.
ORLANDO -- Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Tuesday that the proposed <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214822/AT_T_s_takeover_of_T_Mobile_creates_largest_U.S._carrier">$39 billion AT&T takeover</a> of T-Mobile USA would "stifle innovation and put too much power in the hands of just two carriers."