Carriers, Trade Groups Propose Broadband Fund

Carriers, Trade Groups Propose Broadband Fund PCWorld By Grant Gross, IDG News A US Federal Communications Commission program that subsidizes telephone service in rural areas would transition into broadband subsidies under a plan released Friday by six telecom carriers and three trade groups representing ...

Can Droid Bionic and Photon 4G Help Motorola? International Business Times Hope might come from its anticipated new smartphones, however. Shipments of newer handsets for "LTE," or 4G wireless, networks should help in the second half o the year. They include the "Bionic" at Verizon , and the "Photon 4G" at Sprint-Nextel. ...

Are Wi-Fi fears junk science? National Post (blog) Green party leader Elizabeth May has voiced her opposition to the unnecessary use of WiFi. In this occasional feature, the National Post tells you everything you need to know about a complicated issue. Today, Sarah Boesveld wades into the world of ...

Motorola Photon delivers 4G speed and Tegra 2 power Video Gaming Pros However, if you had to point only one or two characteristics that make this such a versatile, powerful, speedy mobile handset, you could point out the Nvidia Tegra 2 processing chip and super-fast Sprint4G broadband network. ...

Sprint Nextel takes a hit in 4G race Futures Magazine The company's turnaround attempt comes as it battles new entrants in the speedier 4G arena. Once the sole carrier with a next-generation wireless service, along with partner Clearwire (CLWR), Sprint now faces stiff competition from Verizon (VZ), ...

LG Thrill 4G Review SlashGear Ok guys up next on the chop block we have the LG Thrill 4G with its pretty glasses-free 3D screen and dual-core power. You may know it better as the Optimus 3D as this is a glasses-free 3D device loaded with fun. Between dual cameras and the dual-core ... SlashGear

Qualcomm confident of LTE technology rollout by Q1 2012 Economic Times SAN DIEGO, California: San Diego-based chipmakerQualcomm Inc on Thursday claimed its plans to sell its wireless broadband business in India will not be derailed by any potential delays in the commercial deployment of LTE (long term evolution) ...

When the Tech Trend Is Not Your Friend Barron's Stec's customers are looking for cheaper suppliers, while Sequans' clients aren't sure how much they should bet on Wimax, and how much to bet on "LTE," the flavor of 4G used by Verizon Communications (VZ) and AT&T (T). The takeaway is that no matter ...

Lenovo IdeaPad Tablet K1 32GB (Wi-Fi) PCWorld Lenovo IdeaPad Tablet K1 32GB (Wi-Fi) Review, by Melissa J. Perenson July 29, 2011 The Lenovo IdeaPad K1 strives to be more than just another Android tablet. From its Honeycomb tweaks to its plethora of preloaded apps--many of which are actually ...

Android This Week: Galaxy S2 vs iPhone; AT&T bakes Gingerbread, myTouch 4G ... GigaOm The second largest carrier said it will offer Android 2.3, also known as Gingerbread, for all Android handsets it launched in 2011, starting with the Motorola Atrix 4G. Five other handsets already earned a spot on the upgrade list, including the ...

New 802.22 Wi-Fi Technology Allows Wireless Data Over 60 Miles Tech2 IEEE, or The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, USA have announced the launch of the next-generation Wi-Fi IEEE 802.22TM that is capable of data transfers at 22 Mbps per channel over a range of a whopping 60 miles. ... Tech2

IHS iSuppli: Tablets to push 2011 mobile broadband shipments up 58% VentureBeat Strong tablet sales this year will help increase the shipment of devices that connect to mobilebroadband — basically everything connecting to cellular networks that's not a smartphone — by 57.8 percent, research firm IHS iSuppli reports. ...

Motorola is banking on LTE, new tablets as it continues turnaround ConnectedPlanet Come September, Motorola's planned LTE upgrade for the Xoom will arrive (CP: Verizon's Motorola Xoom 3G tablet to receive 4G LTE upgrade in September), along with its delayed Bionic 4G handset for the Verizon network. By year's end, Motorola will ...

Lightsquared LTE plan could affect local GPS users The Marshall Democrat-News By MARCIA GORRELL/Democrat-News Local crop consultants are concerned about a recently approved broadband Internet system called "Lightsquared LLC" which allegedly would compromise local GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) signals. ...

BT bids for Herts broadband bonanza Herts and Essex Observer Dave Hughes, East of England regional director, said the communications company was willing to consider a further major investment in super-fast broadband “if we can create the right environment”. He emphasised that the full benefits of the high-speed ...

NBN ready to start connecting in Brunswick Sydney Morning Herald THE first Melbourne site in the government's national broadband project is to be launched next week. A handful of selected households in the inner-northern suburb of Brunswick will start testing services to test network speeds and connections. ...

4 Top 4G Smartphones InformationWeek It is blazing fast when it comes to broadband speeds, and will anchor Verizon's services for probably a decade or more. Verizon is offering three LTE-equipped phones right now, and HTC's Droid Thunderbolt is the best. HTC did a commendable job in ...

Pre-paid, wholesale subs keep Sprint afloat ahead of LTE

Pre-paid, wholesale subs keep Sprint afloat ahead of LTE Reuters Part of the issue here for the more lucrative post-paid side could be due to Sprint's choice of 4Gtechnologies. Sprint initially opted for a WiMAX network it opened for business in October 2008, but the speeds are getting leapfrogged by LTE and HSPA+ ...

Motorola Mobility primed to launch new 4G smartphones and tablets Chicago Tribune Those launches will be followed by two more 4G tablets and at least one additional 4G smartphone. All of these devices run on LTE, or Long-Term Evolution, networks. In Chicago, Verizon Wireless' latest network uses LTE, and AT&T is planning to launch ...

Broadband network has 41 only customers at test sites The Australian THE National Broadband Network has just 41 active customers at its two operating mainland test sites, despite more than 6000 homes having been connected to the grid. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy yesterday switched on the NBN at the NSW south ...

Show Off Verizon 4G Speed on Video For a Shot at $10000 Gotta Be Mobile There's no doubt that Verizon 4G LTE is fast. In our tests we've found speeds that put most other carriers, and even some cable connections, to shame. We've all seen the Verizon 4G LTEcommercials where Verizon traces a rocket, an impending takeoff and ...

Motorola Photon 4G (Sprint) PC Magazine The Photon connects to Sprint's 3G CDMA and 4G WiMAX networks, as well as to Wi-Fi and to HSPA 14.4 high-speed networks worldwide. The phone comes with a SIM card that can roam on foreign networks at high rates, but as with all Sprint world phones, ...

Huawei launches LTE TDD data card Times of India "The introduction of the Huawei E392 will bring super-fast internet connectivity to users worldwide and accelerate the global development of the LTE TDD industry," says Wu Shimin, President of MobileBroadband, Huawei Device. "Although LTE will be a ...

AT&T Expands Mobile Broadband Coverage in Roanoke Area PR Newswire (press release) If approved, this deal means that we'll be able to expand the next generation of mobile broadband –4G LTE – from our current plan of 80 percent of the US population to more than 97 percent." "Demand for wireless bandwidth is growing rapidly, ...

Chinese bars told to snoop on customers' Wifi use TG Daily China's ordering bars, cafes and other places offering free Wifi access to monitor their customers' online activities, according to state media. They've been ordered to install software that captures all the websites visited by a user and sends the ...

Companies Announce America's Broadband Connectivity Plan and Breakthrough ... MarketWatch (press release) WASHINGTON, Jul 29, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Six of the nation's leading broadbandproviders today submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) a proposal to speedbroadband deployment to more than 4 million Americans living in ...

Debt fight could bring more airwaves for broadband The Associated Press Reid's proposal would also deliver a big victory to public safety officials: It would set aside airwaves and money for the construction of a nationwide wireless broadband network that would let police officers, firefighters and emergency medical ...

Gig.U Aims To Boost US Broadband Standings, Offerings Communications Technology Regulatory guru Blair Levin has done many things in his long career, from serving as chief of staff to a FCC chairman to working for a communications think tank to authoring the National Broadband Plan, but his new venture – Gig. ...

Verizon's First 4G Laptop is Overpriced, Here's Why PCWorld With Verizon's offer that comes with built-in 4G broadband, you can surf the Web on Verizon's dm1 up to 10x faster than 3G wherever you have access to Verizon's 4G LTE network. The only problem? The HP dm1z scored high points with PCWorld for offering ...

Motorola Confirms Droid Bionic In September, Plus Two New 4G LTE Tablets SlashGear He not only confirmed the timeline for the much anticipated and long delayed Droid Bionic, but he also revealed that the company has planned two new 4G LTE tablets to hit the market before the end of this year. Recent rumors have suggested a September...

Sprint, LightSquared strike 15-year deal for LTE wholesale network

Sprint, LightSquared strike 15-year deal for LTE wholesale network Computerworld "The deal...blows open the doors for Sprint to shift its attention to the increasingly-popular 4G LTEtechnology. Although Sprint was an early supporter of the competing WiMax technology and had benefitted from its access to Clearwire's 4G WiMax ...

BT Quarterly Operating Profit Rises 2.6% on Demand for Broadband Lines Bloomberg By Jonathan Browning - Thu Jul 28 11:07:14 GMT 2011 BT Group Plc (BT/A), the UK's largest fixed-line phone company, posted a higher fiscal first-quarter profit as it won high-speed broadbandclients and market share from rivals TalkTalk Telecom Group ...

Man charged with hacking into Australian broadband BusinessWeek By ROD McGUIRK An unemployed truck driver has been charged with hacking into an Australianbroadband network provider and could have caused significant damage to the national Internet infrastructure, police said Wednesday. The 25-year-old man, ...

Airspan Networks Selected by Aptics Trading for 4G Network in Zimbabwe MarketWatch (press release) "Airspan is able to provide ISPs such as Aptics with a cost-effective 4G solution and with such high consumer demand for broadband connectivity, Aptics can expect a quick return on their investment." Airspan products provide 4G WiMAX and LTE solutions ...

Eircom invests €100m in broadband Irish Times Eircom is to invest more than €100 million in its broadband network and plans to offer TV services from next year, it was announced today. The company said it would "significantly upgrade" the telecommunications infrastructure and bring faster ...

Time Warner Cable Tops Analyst Profit Estimates on More Broadband Clients Bloomberg Time Warner Cable added broadband customers in the quarter, helping to offset slowing demand for TV subscriptions. The company bought back 11.5 million shares for $863 million. Consistently returning capital to shareholders is one of the reasons Time ...

Irate NBN chief gives media a serve ABC Online ELEANOR HALL: The Australian Federal Police today warned that there would be more arrests over the hacking scandal that sparked concerns about the security of the national broadband network. The Federal Communications Minister denies that the national ...

Emergency calls may be barred in Optus home product Sydney Morning Herald CUSTOMERS signing on to Optus's new Home Zone product could be barred from making emergency calls if they exceed their broadband download limit. Optus launched a new residential ''femtocell'' device yesterday which converts fixed broadband into a 3G ...

Ofcom slams broadband firms over download speed adverts Yorkshire Post BROADBAND providers have been slammed by industry regulator Ofcom after it emerged the gap had grown between actual speeds and the fastest possible which are being advertised. Ofcom is trying to force companies to give equal prominence in their adverts ...

Sequans Communications Announces Second Quarter 2011 Financial Results MarketWatch (press release) Sequans Communications is a 4G chipmaker, supplying LTE and WiMAX chips to equipment manufacturers for mobile operators worldwide. Founded in 2003 to address the WiMAX market, the company expanded in early 2009 to address the LTE market. ...

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G from Verizon Now Available Phandroid.com by Quentyn Kennemer on July 28th, 2011 at 9:58 am If you needed a reminder, here it is – the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with 4G LTE is now available from Verizon. 16GB and 32GB models are available for $530 and $630, respectively. ...

ZTE Selects NetLogic Microsystems' Digital Front-End (DFE) Processors for LTE ... MarketWatch (press release) These processors deliver unparalleled performance of up to 5X increase in signal bandwidth and up to 9X increase in instantaneous bandwidth over available competing solutions, which dramatically improves 3G/4G LTE data rates. ...

Elizabeth May wages war against WiFi Globe and Mail The Green Party is waging war against WiFi pollution, and Elizabeth May is leading by example. Ms. May, who was the first Green candidate to win a seat in the House of Commons in the last election, took to Twitter on Wednesday lay out her concerns over...

NBN Co releases wholesale broadband agreement and draft access undertaking iTWire By Stuart Corner NBN Co has released the third edition of its Wholesale Broadband Agreement (WBA) and a discussion paper providing an overview of its planned Special Access Undertaking (SAU). The latest edition of the WBA two previous rounds of ...

Elevate Appoints Peter Cannistra to Advisory Board MarketWatch (press release) For over a decade, Mr. Cannistra has been a driving force behind the introduction of true wirelessbroadband for consumers and businesses, and the adoption of 4G technology. As VP of Embedded Devices and Business Development at Clearwire, Mr. Cannistra ...

LightSquared's New 4G Network will Either Help You or Kill You, Depending on ... TMC Net By Tracey E. Schelmetic LightSquared (News - Alert), the company currently developing a new wholesale 4G LTE (“Long Term Evolution”) wireless broadband communications network integrated across the country, will either do great things or kill you, ...

Hollywood studios ban BT broadband users from illegally downloading ... Daily Mail By Colin Fernandez Millions of Internet users could be cut off after Hollywood studios forced British Telecom to block a website which allows illegal downloading of blockbuster films. The landmark case was brought by a group including 20th Century Fox, ...

Anite Accelerates the Pace for LTE Conformance Testing PR Newswire (press release) Today, Anite, the global leader in wireless device testing, announced that the company is maintaining its leading position within LTE protocol conformance testing by delivering the most number of test cases for the pending deployment of Band 04 in the ...

How Big a Deal will 4G Wholesale Be? TMC Net While the 4G wholesale market currently revolves entirely around WiMAX because of Clearwire and UQ Communications, ABI Research believes that the market will shift rapidly to LTE (News - Alert) in the next few years. While the market is forecasted to ...

4G Galaxy Tab 10.1: Five Things to Consider

4G Galaxy Tab 10.1: Five Things to Consider PCWorld Verizon is launching a 4G/LTE model of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.1. 4G / LTE. This is a big win for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Many thought the Motorola Xoom would take the lead for 4Gtablets, but the 4G update for the Motorola tablet is still ...

UK Broadband Speed Jumps 10% In Six Months Sky News The average broadband speed in Britain has jumped by 10% in half a year - but consumers still aren't getting the speeds they pay for, new research shows. Media regulator Ofcom found the typical broadband user in the UK got a speed of 6.8 megabits per ...

Police flag more hacking arrests Sydney Morning Herald Police allege a 25-year-old planned to cripple part of the National Broadband Network using the online nickname 'Evil'. POLICE expect to make more arrests over one of Australia's biggest online hacking attacks, which they say could spread to companies ...

Man charged with hacking into Australian broadband Newsday (subscription) Click here Man charged with hacking into Australian broadband Published: July 26, 2011 7:59 PM By The Associated Press (AP) -- Police have charged an unemployed truck driver with hacking into Australia's broadband network and potentially threatened ...

Huawei launches end-to-end convergent WiMAX/LTE solutions Al-Bawaba Huawei, a leading telecom solutions provider, today launched and demonstrated a series of end-to-end convergent WiMAX/LTE solutions at the 2011 WiMAX/LTEForum. These solutions included the cutting-edge SingleRAN WiMAX/LTE solution, the B8200—the ...

Frontier Selects ADTRAN for Three-year Broadband Expansion Project MarketWatch (press release) ADTRAN's extensive broadband portfolio, professional services and network management solutions are being utilized to enable delivery of enhanced broadband and new bundled services to customers across this expanded geographic footprint. ...

Delivering broadband across the great divide Boston Globe By Steve LeBlanc AP / July 27, 2011 Massachusetts is launching an ambitious project designed to bring online relief to broadband-starved communities in the central and western parts of the state, a push that officials hope will deliver on the promise ...

Motorola Xoom LTE upgrade reportedly due in September Reuters The device return can take up to six business days, after which time it can access the LTE network, which supplements the device's Wi-Fi and 3G connections. There is no price increase from Verizon (as of yet) to use the operator's 4G network, ...

White space standards pubbed, bring on the devices! GigaOm 27, 2011, 8:12am PT No Comments Another hurdle was removed today for “Wi-Fi on steroids,” as the IEEE published a wireless standard that could bring high-speed broadband to rural areas. The 802.22TM-2011 standard will be used on frequencies that were ...

ERF Wireless Subsidiary Energy Broadband Provides Wireless Broadband Data ... MarketWatch (press release) LEAGUE CITY, TX, Jul 27, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ERF Wireless /quotes/zigman/355894 ERFW +13.16% , a leading provider of enterprise-class wireless andbroadband products and services, announced today that the company is in the process of ...

Virgin Media loses 36000 customers The Guardian Virgin Media lost 36000 customers in the three months to the end of June, in part because thousands of students dropped their low-priced TV and broadband subscriptions for the summer holidays. The Virgin Media chief executive, Neil Berkett,...

4G-auction rural notspot scheme would actually be illegal Register By Bill Ray • Get more from this author Comment The Consumer Communications Panel has called for 4G money to be used to help build rural networks, which sounds eminently sensible but, as BT pointed out last month, would almost certainly be illegal too. ...

CompanionLink Offers PC Sync Support for the myTouch 4G Slide MarketWatch (press release) The T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide improves upon the myTouch model in many ways. Featuring a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, slide out QWERTY keyboard, and 4G speeds, the myTouch 4G Slide runs HTC(R) Sense(TM) 3.0 on Android(TM) 2.3. ...

Officials in China to monitor public wi-fi use Sydney Morning Herald A green tea, a laptop … and someone monitoring you. Photo: Colleen Kinder/New York Times BEIJING: New regulations that require bars, restaurants, hotels and bookstores to install costly web-monitoring software are prompting many businesses to cut ...

FCC Wants To Reallocate Some TV Channels To Wireless Broadband NBC Montana The Federal Communications Commission wants to reallocate about one-third of over the air channels to wireless broadband services. Critics forecast disruptions in traditional TV service, or in worst case scenarios, even going to black. ...

IPWireless Launches New Long Term Evolution (LTE) Product Portfolio to Better ... Business Wire (press release) SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IPWireless, a leading provider of 3G and 4G LTE wirelessbroadband network solutions for federal, state and local government applications, today announced its new end-to-end LTE product portfolio. ...

GTDC hotels to be equipped with WiFi facility IBNLive.com GTDC's Board of Directors (BoDs) on Saturday approved the tender for installing wi-fi facilities in all the 12 hotels. Chennai-based M/s Zylog System (India) Ltd has won the bid which is on a revenue sharing basis of 69:31, GTDC's General Manager ...

UK 'not in top ten of high-speed broadband countries' Telappliant VoIP News The UK is not among the top ten countries when it comes to high-speed broadband, a new study has found. Gigaom reports that Akamai's soon-to-be-released State of the Internet paper shows South Korea in first place, followed by Hong Kong and Japan. ...

Mac vs. PC via McDonald's Wi-Fi guide CNET All of this only works if the WiFi is turned on. I mean physically turned on. Most PCs have some function key for toggling the WiFi on and off. Yes, this is a problem. If you happen to run XP at home and connect via Ethernet, you will eventually turn ...

The Motorola Atrix 4G AT&T Smartphone: Now with Android 2.3 Gingerbread Video Gaming Pros AT&T's 4G mobile broadband network will also seem faster with the more efficient Gingerbread at the helm. There will also be a noticeable improvement in user interface enjoyment with the Webtop application that runs the Laptop Dock for the Motorola ...

Google Street View cars nabbed locations of Wi-Fi devices ZDNet (blog) But the really salient points are that Google has been collecting this data despite an earlier public statement claiming that ”we collect the publicly broadcast MAC addresses of Wi-Fi access points.” There's no opt-out method. And as noted above, ...

Tesco plans free WiFi in stores Telegraph.co.uk Tesco is planning to offer WiFi access in its stores, in what would mark a significant increase in the availability of free internet access in Britain. The supermarket giant is currently trialling the service in four stores, but expects to expand it ...

iPass Wi-Fi Footprint Grows in India With Spectranet MarketWatch (press release) "Business travel is increasing in India and our partnership with iPass will allow enterprise users to connect to Wi-Fi coverage in hotels, commercial office spaces, malls and markets," said the head of Spectranet Marketing and Product Development, ...

Sprint Samsung Google Nexus S 4G now free with contract Unwired View This is Sprint's Nexus S 4G we're talking about. So naturally you have to be willing to become a Sprint customer. Also, as always, a new two-year contract signing is required. If you're fine with the above, then perhaps you should pay a quick visit to ...

Police say cyber attack threatens Australia's infrastructure ABC Online The Australian Federal Police says it's uncovered a worrying hacking attack on a company which wholesales access to the National Broadband Network. Unemployed truckdriver David Cecil, known online as 'Evil', has been arrested and faces more than 40 ...

UF, Gainesville join nationwide effort to land ultra-high-speed broadband University of Florida The goal: to accelerate the move to broadband, making it possible for universities and communities to compete internationally and spur economic growth. Project organizers plan to work with existing and potential Internet service providers in an open, ...

Research and Markets: Global Broadband - High Level Insights 2011 Business Wire (press release) Services that depend on high quality broadband infrastructure include e-health, e-education, e-business, digital media, e-government, smart meters etc. In countries where the national telco is lagging behind, we see that governments have no choice ...

Universal broadband coverage holds tremendous promise for rural Arkansas Gurdon Times The recently announced merger between AT&T and T-Mobile will result in a dramatic increase in mobile broadband services, as AT&T deploys high-speed 4G LTE service to more than 97% of the US population. That means that 55 million more Americans will ...

LG Mobile Celebrates LG Thrill 4G Launch with an Integrated Marketing Campaign TMC Net By Nathesh LG Electronics (News - Alert) Mobile, a global mobile communications and information company, announced that it has plans to celebrate the launch of LG Thrill 4G smartphones with an integrated marketing campaign called “Bring Your World ...

Secretary Vilsack Announces Telecommunications Projects To Deliver Broadband ... USDA.gov (press release) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 27, 2011 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that rural telecommunications companies have been selected to receive nearly $192 million in loans for projects that will deliver broadband services to rural ...