Verizon launching LTE network in December 2010 (video)
Verizon's been talking details on LTE deployment for some time now, but even at CTIA earlier in the year, the carrier insisted that it would be the first half of 2011 before the next-gen network was active in the US of A. Now, it looks as if the engineers have been working triple-time in order to get Long Term Evolution live in the States under Big Red's branding, as a new VZW commercial (embedded after the break) has affirmed that the first LTE waves will go public here in December 2010. Yeah, next month .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engineers, internet, launch, long term evolution, mobileinternet, states, the-engineers, time, verizonwireless
Verizon gets official with Wireless Fivespot mobile hotspot, touts awful global roaming plans
Really, Verizon ? Play up the global roaming features of your new-but-not-unexpected Wireless Fivespot , only to strangle it with GlobalAccess plans that top out with 200MB of international data? Thanks, but no thanks.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 100mb, access, card, data, global, mobile, mobile hotspot, mobileinternet, Modem, plan, radio, wireless-fivespot
Xcom Global international MiFi / data rental service review
A few months earlier in the year, we covered the arduous process of staying connected while traveling abroad . One of the ways we mentioned for jetsetters, backpackers and common tourists to stay jacked in while situated far from their homeland was a MiFi rental service from Xcom Global
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Carrier, data-rental, fri, international, messaging, mobileinternet, result, Sim, texting, traveling, video, xcom, xcomglobal
T-Mobile webConnect Rocket 2.0 leaks out, brings along Mac support and microSDHC slot
T-Mobile's webConnect Rocket has only been delivering "4G speeds" to users in search of mobile internet for a handful of months now, but already the company looks to have a successor on deck.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: brakes, internet, leaks, mobileinternet, Modem, osx, release-date, slam-the-brakes, slides, webconnect, wwan modem, wwanmodem
Sierra Wireless AirCard 890 does 7.2Mbps on AT&T, slides into PC Card or ExpressCard slots
Talk about being flexible. Sierra Wireless ' newest 7.2Mbps-capable AirCard (the 890, if you're curious) obviously isn't content with fitting into just one slot.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: compatibility, entry, gps, mobileinternet, obviously-isn, wireless, wwan
Sprint promises its first WiMAX handset by this summer, could be the Supersonic
The life of a gadget lover tends to involve a lot of waiting , so it's always nice to be surprised by a roadmap getting shorter rather than longer. Sprint has told Forbes that its very first WiMAX phone will be arriving in the first half of this year, which will be somewhat earlier than many had expected. We're likely talking about that A9292 "bar handset" from HTC that was spotted in January , as Forbes goes on to note that it's likely to be a HTC-built Android device .
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: adopters, being-discussed, business, cited-as-saying, dan hesse, engadget, forbes, handset, mobile-internet, mobileinternet, sprint
AT&T selects LTE equipment suppliers, ‘commercial deployment’ planned for 2011
Aw, snap. We knew good and well that the iPhone's exclusive home in America (cue groans) was planning to hopscotch right around HSPA+ and move straight to LTE , but it's always good to see a little confirmation from the carrier, you know? AT&T has today confessed to selecting its two LTE suppliers (Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson), and better still, that it will begin its LTE rollout in 2011.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: deployment, front-as-well, internet, lte, make-the-nation, mobile-internet, mobileinternet, wirelesstechnology, wwan
NTT DoCoMo will demo LTE prototype at MWC, launch service this year
Still on track to launch its LTE network this year, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has today announced that its first prototype handset designed specifically to handle all that bandwidth will be unveiled at MWC 2010. We already knew a cool $10.4 billion or thereabouts were to be spent on Japanese LTE deployment, and now we can break that figure down a little by noting that NTT will be spending between $3.3b and $4.4b on its infrastructure alone.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Carrier, engadget, fujitsu, internet, japan, japanese, launch, mobile-world-congress, mobileinternet, panasonic
FCC starts up white spaces database, devices now inevitable
White space devices seem likely to play a major part in the FCC's solution to the wireless spectrum crisis .
Categories: BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: BlackBerry, fcc, internet, mobile, mobileinternet, report, return-false, spectrum, television, whitespacedevices, whitespaceinternet, whitespaces, wirelessspectrum