AT&T Buying Verizon 700 MHz Spectrum
The two dominant wireless players are keeping spectrum in the family. Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. announced that AT&T has agreed to acquire 39 lower 700 MHz B-block licenses from Verizon for...
View ArticleVoLTE May Provide a Path to an Interoperable Nationwide Public Safety Network
Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is superior to equipment currently in use by first responders. The finding was made during laboratory tests conducted by the Institute for Telecommunications Sciences (ITS), a...
View ArticleWhite Paper: Wireline and Wireless Broadband are Complementary Services
Consumers tend to view wireline and wireless broadband services as complements to one another, rather than as substitutes, according to a white paper recently released by the Joint Center for Political...
View ArticleCisco: Mobile Data Consumption at 6 GB Per Month, Per User by 2017
According to Cisco’s latest “Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast,” worldwide mobile data traffic will reach 11.2 exabytes per month by 2017. (An exabyte is one billion...
View ArticleClearwire Takes $80 Million from Sprint, Possibly Signaling the End of the...
Clearwire announced that it will draw $80 million in financing under the terms of its agreements with SprintNextel Corp., rejecting the bid from satellite TV provider DISH Network Corp. Announced in...
View ArticleFreedomPop Offers Free Home Broadband
FreedomPop has begun offering a free broadband service providing up to 1 GB of monthly usage. The service is aimed at non-streaming end users, many of whom are currently using dial-up service to...
View ArticlePew Survey Finds 1 in 4 Teens ‘Cell Mostly’ Internet Users
According to a survey recently conducted by the Pew Research Center, 25%of teenage survey respondents indicated that their cellphone is their primary means of accessing the Internet. Among teen...
View ArticleVerizon Estimates 50% of Their Wireless Traffic is Video
Speaking at the National Associations of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, Verizon Communications CEO Lowell McAdam estimated that half of the data carried on Verizon’s wireless network is video,...
View ArticleDetroit Guns its Engines for Smart Grid
While checking the score of the Tigers’ game over the weekend, I came across an announcement of matching federal funds for Detroit Edison’s “Smart Currents” project. The project aims to install nearly...
View ArticleDISH Muscles SoftBank with Sprint Bid
Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) today made an unsolicited offer of $25.5 billion for Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S). The offer bests Japanese SoftBank Corp. by $5.4 billion. The offer includes a mix of cash...
View ArticleCan MetroPCS Give T-Mobile the Boost it Needs to Compete with the Big Boys?
Less than two years after a failed deal to sell T-Mobile USA to AT&T, parent company Deutsche Telekom AG has finalized a deal to merge T-Mobile USA with MetroPCS Communications Inc. The deal,...
View ArticleStudy Foreshadows Growth in Tech Support Services
Seventy-eight percent of U.S. broadband households have a home network, according to a study recently conducted by Parks Associates and Support.com, Inc. Parks expects that number to grow to 95% by...
View ArticleToll-Free Data Plans for Viewers of Online Content?
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that ESPN is looking into toll-free data plans for mobile broadband users viewing its content online. If it comes to fruition, a consumer using their mobile...
View ArticleTrial by Fire (Island)
In a bid to restore post-Hurricane Sandy service to New York’s Fire Island, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is proposing the installation of Voice Link, a fixed wireless service the company says will save millions...
View ArticleFairPoint Awarded $32 Million Contract to Build Next Gen 911 System in Maine
The state of Maine has awarded FairPoint Communications a $32 million contract to build its Emergency Services IP network (ESInet) 911 service. The network will serve more than 1.3 million citizens in...
View ArticleDISH, nTelos Announce Fixed-Mobile Broadband Deal
Satellite company DISH Network and regional wireless carrier nTelos have announced the formation of a strategic relationship to co-develop a fixed-mobile broadband service within nTelos’s coverage...
View ArticleAT&T Introduces Free Solar Powered Charging Stations in New York City
In New York City last week, AT&T, along with solar kit manufacturer Goal Zero, and Brooklyn’s Pensa Design unveiled Street Charge, a solar-based charging unit for mobile devices. The 25...
View ArticleCan Technology Help You Lose Weight? I Hope So
I thought of this topic as I finished last week’s article, where I mentioned that video game consoles could help me multitask my laziness. As a test of how lazy I am, I weighed myself. I need to make...
View ArticleDish Tests 50 Mbps LTE
Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) announced last week that it has achieved speeds of 50 Mbps in LTE testing. Using 2.5 GHz BRS spectrum at 2496-2690 MHz, Dish explained that weather-proof outdoor antennas,...
View ArticleCDC: Nearly 40% of U.S. Households Have Cut the Cord
A newly-released study finds that nearly two in five American homes (38.2%) do not have a wireline phone in the home, and utilize wireless phones exclusively. The study was produced by the Centers for...
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