Indian auctioned the 2.3 GHz spectrum for deployment of Broadband Wireless Access services for roughly $5.5 billion. The big winner was Infotel, a private company that has now agreed to be bought by conglomerate Reliance Industries. The 4G-focused spectrum is expected to compete with 3G service. Read more »
MeFeedia is making an offer to publishers that want to track videos delivered via HTML5: let us handle your analytics for free. With the rollout of its new analytics suite for HTML5 video, MeFeedia customers can now track engagement metrics across a number of mobile devices. Read more »
If WiMAX is a fad — a short-term bridge on the path to LTE as the global fourth-generation wireless standard — how will operators move from one network technology to another? Russia’s Yota, a WiMAX provider moving to LTE and interviews provide some clues. Read more »
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Are you enjoying an all-you-can eat 3G data plan on Verizon Wireless? The buffet is over when Verizon’s 4G LTE network arrives later this year. At that point, the menu will change to one of tiered pricing, shifting the usage forecasting burden to consumers. Read more »
It will take almost 10 years for the sale of LTE devices to overtake 3G devices according to Keith Mallinson, founder of research firm WiseHarbor. He estimates the tipping point between LTE and 3G will occur in 2019, which is normal for network technology adoption curves. Read more »
Nearly 70 percent of U.S. cell phone subscribers are on a 3G network, according to data released by Wireless Intelligence today. America’s 3G adoption ties closely to our innovation and the economic growth around mobile computing, so imagine what happens when 4G services are rolled out. Read more »
AT&T, believing LTE won’t be robust enough by the time it begins its 2011 deployment, will deploy HSPA+ over its entire footprint by the end of the year. The network will offer speeds of up to 14 Mbps and cost less than $10 million to deploy. Read more »
Few people are as excited as I am about the coming Long Term Evolution wireless networks, but I experienced a little bit of of a reality check thanks to Qualcomm’s VP of Technology Jou Yu-chuen who said he didn’t see LTE as being widespread until 2014. Read more »
Clearwire has changed an agreement it had with Intel, one of its largest investors, that could lead the way for Clearwire to dump WiMAX and switch to LTE. Clearwire didn’t say it planned to switch technologies, but it now has the freedom to do so. Read more »
TeliaSonera, which deployed the first 4G network in the world last December, has released data that indicates once users have 4G service, more than half — 54 percent — would never go back to 3G. Read more »
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Harbinger Capital partners has reportedly hired Sanjiv Ahuja, the former chief executive of Orange, the wireless unit of France Telecom, to run its planned Long Term Evolution wireless network. The private equity firm wants to construct a next-generation wireless network using both satellite and terrestrial components. Read more »
A New York-based private equity firm’s plans to build out an open nationwide 4G wireless network may simply be a facade aimed at pumping up the value of the spectrum it indirectly owns, according to several satellite industry analysts. Will the network ever come to fruition? Read more »
AT&T today filed a petition with the FCC asking it to reconsider conditions associated with an order allowing Harbinger Capital Partners to take over a satellite company and its spectrum assets. The move is AT&T’s attempt to fight the construction of a competing 4G wireless network. Read more »
Harbinger Capital Partner’s bold plan to build out an open 4G wireless network has more moving parts than the latest OK Go video, and would require a minimum of $6 billion to build. I’m skeptical that a competitive LTE network will come out of the plan. Read more »
Mobile data traffic outnumbered voice traffic for the first time last December, according to wireless equipment vendor Ericsson. Worryingly, that data traffic was generated by an estimated 400 million smartphones compared with 4.6 billion mobile subscribers making voice calls. What happens when everyone has a smartphone? Read more »
Huawei today demonstrated the next generation Long Term Evolution network technology in trials that reached speed of 1.2 Gbps. That’s faster than wireline services, delivered via cellular networks. But before you dump your FiOS wireline subscription, know that the LTE Advanced technology is years away. Read more »
Clearwire said today that it would expand its WiMAX network to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and St. Louis this year. Clearwire is in a race to sign up mobile broadband subscribers before the cellular operators launch their own 4G networks. Read more »
People treat their mobile broadband connections like they treat their wireline connections — downloading as much data and expecting the same performance. Sandvine today released data showing exactly how much people use mobile broadband, and concluded that such use isn’t sustainable or profitable for carriers. Read more »
Qualcomm plans to bid for a chunk of spectrum in India’s upcoming 3G auction. Qualcomm doesn’t want to operate a network – nor does it want to deploy a 3G technology — it wants to jumpstart demand for 4G chips and provide better mobile broadband. Read more »
Mike Sievert, chief commercial officer at Clearwire, said the company’s mobile users (those on laptops and dongles outside the home) consume more than an average of 7GB per month of data. Slaking that thirst for mobile data, and doing it cheaply, is essential for Clearwire’s strategy. Read more »
Verizon Wireless said it will launch its first LTE handsets by the middle of 2011. But the super-fast handsets are likely to come with usage pricing models that will see high-end users pay substantially more for 4G service than they’re currently paying for 3G. Read more »
Verizon expects its 4G mobile broadband will deliver speeds between 5-12 Mbps. So how does LTE –a technology that can deliver 150 Mbps — get whittled down to less than a tenth of that? We explain how physics, regulations, investment and users take their toll. Read more »
For Clearwire, 2010 is the year it makes it or breaks it. As part of its annual results today Clearwire said it will triple its number of subscribers this year. To do that it will cover 120 million people and spend up to $3.2 billion. Read more »
Wired broadband is in trouble. And ISPs and Silicon Valley are to blame. The idea that wireless could be a real substitute for wired broadband showcases how crappy our current broadband is. We need fatter pipes, but we also need applications that take advantage of them. Read more »
Sprint will reportedly bring a WiMAX handset to market in the first half of this year, several months earlier than had been expected. But given its small WiMAX footprint and the technical issues that must be overcome, what’s the rush? Read more »
Alcatel-Lucent has achieved 80Mbps downstream peak speeds on China Mobile’s TD-LTE (time division duplex) trial network, it said today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And Verizon said its U.S. 4G plans remain on track — more evidence that radically faster broadband is imminent. Read more »
Huawei grew its North American sales by 63 percent to $408 million in 2009. The base number is small compared with Huawei’s global contract sales of more than $30 billion, but the Chinese equipment vendor is finding growth in a shrinking industry. Read more »
AT&T has chosen Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson to build its LTE network, which is set to begin commercial deployment next year. While the carrier is playing catch-up to Verizon, its move to 4G may enable it to hold on to iPhone users after its exclusive pact ends. Read more »
The incumbent carriers may be considering Long Term Evolution (LTE) as their post 3G wireless broadband technology, but Telegeography says that there are about 600 WiMAX networks, many of them in Asia, Africa and Latin America. It’s clear: WiMAX’s future is in developing telecom markets. Read more »
VoIP penetration among U.S. businesses will increase rapidly over the next few years, reaching 79 percent by 2013 according to research out today from analyst firm In-Stat. At this point I wonder what market represents the last stand for legacy voice; consumer landlines or mobile networks? Read more »
LTE will be the 4G standard of choice in mobile, but the technology must clear several key hurdles before it gains any real traction. WiMAX will build a considerable lead over its rival technology as LTE suffers growing pains in the next few years. Read more »
Comnet Wireless has tapped ZTE to deploy a test 4G network for voice and data services in 3 states — and teaming with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority in the hopes of getting a piece of the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus fund to help. Read more »
Cox, the nation’s third-largest cable company, today said it had successfully delivered a voice call and high-definition video streaming over a fourth-generation Long Term Evolution network, but the trial raises more questions than it answers about the cable provider’s 4G wireless plans. Read more »
There are $1.3 billion in venture dollars sitting on the table for startups that can make Verizon’s next generation LTE network better, so I talked to Daniel Deeney who is investing some of those dollars to see what types of companies he’s looking for. Read more »
The growing popularity of smartphones and higher-speed wireless broadband networks are proving to be two major catalysts for the wireless industry. As a result, expect the mobile industry’s revenues to barrel past the $1 trillion-mark by 2013, says Informa Telecom’s & Media. Read more »
Verizon today unveiled new pricing plans that reduce the cost of voice while keeping one’s overall bill about the same by making data plans mandatory on many popular phones. It also plans to reduce the number of phones it carries, to 50 from a current 80-plus. Read more »
Verizon has made an art form of sending mixed messages, and it raised things to a new level when its top executives couldn’t decide what Verizon’s new mobile data pricing strategy should be. Will it offer bundles or usage-based plans? Depends on who you ask. Read more »
Verizon’s pricing for its next-generation Long Term Evolution Network will likely involve a base subscriber fee plus usage charges for the bandwidth consumed on devices that need a cellular connection, said the carrier’s CTO. So will that pricing model resemble that of a utility? Read more »
Forgive my schoolgirl crush on faster mobile broadband, but after Alcatel-Lucent said today that in conjunction with LG Electronics it had completed the first uninterrupted data handoff between a CDMA network and an LTE network, I got really excited as that means LTE is in sight! Read more »
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