O2 begins 4G LTE mobile data trial in London

O2 begins '4G' LTE mobile data trial in London BBC News The experiment is an extension of O2's LTE trials in Slough, west of the capital, which began in 2009. Participants will be given broadband dongles for their computers allowing them access to the 2.6GHz spectrum. When the network goes into full-time ...

Samsung Epic 4G Touch Review Technorati Upon first look at the Epic 4G Touch you see a magnificent phone and at a reasonable cost. With Sprint being the first to offer it at a subsidized cost in return for your two-year agreement. AT&T and T-Mobile will offer their own versions of the same ...

VelaTel Signs Business Agreement with a Chinese State Owned Company to Provide ... MarketWatch (press release) The operating company will deploy and operate Aerostrong's 4G network, which will employ TD-LTEtechnology using equipment already commercially available and manufactured by VelaTel's strategic partner ZTE Corporation. VelaTel and Aerostrong expect to ...

Broadband user base still has a long way to go Livemint Internet users in India have crossed the 100-million mark, still distant from China's nearly 500 million and the 250 million or so in the US, but experts are buoyant about prospects in cyberspace even as low broadband penetration and poor online ...

Wi-Fi coming to international flights CNN International By Brett Snyder, Special to CNN Internet access is common on US domestic flights, but it will soon also be available on longer journeys on United. Editor's note: Brett Snyder is the founder of air travel assistance site Cranky Concierge, and he writes ...

Telecom Egypt to Expand Broadband, Mobile Services, CFO Says Bloomberg By Ahmed A. Namatalla and Ola Galal - Mon Nov 14 14:58:25 GMT 2011 Telecom Egypt (ETEL) Co., the Arab country's fixed-line telephone monopoly, plans to expand broadband and mobile-phone services after third-quarter profit dropped on dwindling ...

eBay Says Inadequate Mobile Broadband is Holding Back Growth TMC Net By Gary Kim, Contributing Editor As the Federal Communications Commission shifts universal service programs to support broadband access rather than voice, the European Commission pushes for ubiquitous 30-Mbps service across the community, ...

SCTE Publishes Broadband Premises Manual Communications Technology The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is accepting orders for a new printed manual for field professionals who install and troubleshoot broadband services at the customer premises. The SCTE Broadband Premises Installation and Service ...

Motorola Droid Bionic 4G packs in some great technical specs and much lower ... Mobile bloom News It is exclusive to the Verizon LTE which was recently named the fastest on all the four major 4Gnetworks. Independent network tester RootMetrics recently released the research data they compiled showing that the Verizon 4G LTE was faster and more ...

SK Telecom gains more LTE momentum Korea Times While mass migration to 4G LTE will take some time, it seems also clear that the industry is moving in the direction, and that puts SK Telecom exactly where it wants to be again in the mainstream of consumer demand with an industry-leading cost ...

Brier Dudley Seattle mayor's revised broadband plan still falls short The Seattle Times Seven years after it began pursuing a city broadband network, Seattle's trying again. Sort of. It seems like every headline involving a plan by McGinn also includes the phrase "... (November 13, 2011, by Proud Democrat) Read more It's too bad that the ...

Fon and Belgacom Set up Largest WiFi Network in Belgium, Launch 100000 Hotspots MarketWatch (press release) Belgacom added Fon's revolutionary WiFi-sharing technology to its secured BBox2 modem earlier this year, making it possible to broadcast two powerful, dedicated WiFi signals from a broadbandinternet source. One signal is encrypted and private. ...

eAccess kicks off LTE trial TeleGeography At that date the cellco intends to offer full-blown services in the Kanto area, before rolling out the 4Gservice countrywide on a sequential basis. The operator will use the pilot trial to evaluate readiness of the LTE network ahead of the service ...

Reliance Communications opens broadband talks with Reliance Industries Economic Times NEW DELHI: Reliance Communications confirmed talks Monday to lease out its telecom infrastructure to Reliance Industries which plans to offer broadband services in the country from mid-2012. "If there is any responsible player coming into the industry ...

Stoke Receives a 2011 Mobility Tech Zone Wireless Backhaul Distinction Award MarketWatch (press release) Capable of an unprecedented 40 Gbps of throughput, the Security eXchange equips operators with unmatched capabilities to handle huge volumes of LTE mobile broadband services, while its compact form factor offers deployment flexibility. ...

SEVEN Networks President & CEO to Address Mobile Data Tsunami at Broadband ... MarketWatch (press release) Broadband Traffic Management will be held Nov. 15-17 at the Royal Garden Hotel in London and will bring together more than 500 attendees and more than 100 speakers to discuss the role ofbroadband traffic management in the mobile data explosion. ...

RootMetrics Releases Findings on Best 4G Cities PR Web (press release) In addition, New York City, Boston and Miami represent three of the four slowest-performing LTE markets for Verizon. And the nation's capital suffered from AT&T's worst performance in our testing to date: the carrier exceeded the 4G threshold in ...

HTC Rezound: Verizon's 4G LTE Smartphone with Beats Audio Now Available on ... PR Web (press release) In addition to operating on Verizon's fastest, most reliable 4G network in America, the device is equipped with a speedy 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, and a whopping 32 GB of storage. Out of the box, the Rezound will run on Android 2.3 ...

iPhone 5 release date: iPhone 4S sales, 4G LTE, Tim Cook all weigh in Beatweek Magazine Various factors weigh on how soon the iPhone 5 could see its release date, ranging from iPhone 4S sales, to progress toward the 4G LTE era, to the whim of new Apple CEO Tim Cook… The most negative news for those hoping for a swift release date for the ...

iPhone 4S: iOS 5.0.1 helps battery but Siri, wifi bluetooth are issues Beatweek Magazine Wifi and bluetooth: The iPhone 4S has multiple wireless signals going on at one time. You'll need the cellular signal to talk on the phone or to use the internet or network-based apps (via 3G/EDGE), so you'll need to leave that turned on nearly all the ...

Judge tosses challenge to broadband project Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog) The public-private project, known as Buildiing Community Capacity through Broadband, is led by the University of Wisconsin-Extension. A trade group of private telecommunications firms, Access Wisconsin, sued ove the summer, and also sought a state ...

York to offer free city-centre wi-fi access BBC News Free public wi-fi could be extended across York if a new trial proves successful. The wireless internet connection is available in St Helen's Square and Coney Street. It uses the council's existing network and if it proves popular the council plans to ...

Big River to launch free Wi-Fi spots in 7 cities Southeast Missourian Big River Broadband is launching free Wi-Fi hot spots in seven Southeast Missouri cities. Its first Hot Spot Site Launch kick off was held in Farmington, Mo., last week, and it will host similar events, today at Sirros Restaurant in Ste. ...

Phones 4u offers three months free Wi-Fi for new smartphone customers Mobile Today Phones 4u is offering new PAYG and contract customers three months free Wi-Fi if they buy a Wi-Fi enabled smartphone over the Christmas period. The '4u Wi-Fi' service is being provided by The Cloud (now owned by BSkyB), which has over 6000 hotspots...

Free Wi-Fi, food at Bangkok Evacuation Center for foreigners CNNGo.com An International Flood Evacuation Center is offering free accommodation in Bangkok -- including meals, electricity and Wi-Fi -- to expats and foreign students and tourists who need emergency shelter from Thailand's toxic, disease-carrying floods. ...

WiFi Hotspots to Triple by 2015 – UK Businesses Urged to Prepare Telecoms News A recent report published by the Wireless Broadband Alliance has shown that the number of publicly available WiFi hotspots is to more than triple by 2015, an increase which will see hotspots increase from 1.3 to 5.8 million hotspots globally. ...

LG Optimus LTE with Bell Nov 22, contract price revealed Phones Review Bell in Canada will start selling the LG Optimus LTE smartphone from November 22, a new flyer has popped up online showing this handset on Bell's retail chain, it will be priced at CA$149.95 on a 3-year contract plan. ... Phones Review

Traffic jams, ISPs and net neutrality — Broadband News and Analysis By Dr. Hsing Cheng and Shubho Bandyopadhyay, University of Florida, and Hong Guo, University of Notre Dame If the goal of public policy is to expand broadband availability and reduce congestion, decision-makers should look beyond the immediate winners and losers and focus on the long-term consequences of their choices. Eliminating net neutrality will put a damper on investment in the Internet .... Voice calls on systems like Skype, 4G IP voice calls, and video calls on systems like FaceTime require low delay and low loss. High compression ratios are limited by the compute time to encode ... GigaOM

Integrated licensing of LTE patents not available until 2013, say ... While there are LTE-enabled terminal devices available for sale, integrated licensing of LTE patents will not be available at least until the end of 2012, according to Taiwan-based makers of networking/communication devices. DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia

Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless: Operator fear & control over WiFi ... By Dean Bubley In a nutshell, the mere act of inserting a SIM into a device like an iPhone can lead to some configuration options being locked-down to the end user - specifically, data connection APNs (the named "virtual" access points on 3G/4G networks such as .... Written and published in collaboration with the Telco 2.0 Initiative, Disruptive Analysis has produced a new 248-page Strategy Report on the future of operator business models for both mobile and fixed broadband, spanning retail ... Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless

London becomes 4G high speed internet hotspot | Business | The ... Britain's 4G or long-term evolution (LTE) upgrade, expected to begin in earnest in ... that can create small WI-FI hotspots linking into O2's 4G infrastructure or " backhaul". ... Orange Broadband boss 'ashamed' of how customers were treated ... www.guardian.co.uk/.../4g-high-speed-mobile-internet-trial-in...

How to Create Custom Shortcuts For WiFi Settings, Airplane Mode ... It's going on a month since the iPhone 4S made its initial debut, and we're still without a jailbreak. Not that we're complaining; we never expected a. www.idownloadblog.com/.../how-to-create-custom-shortcuts-t... Apple allows Motorola Mobility to win default German injunction over iPhone Apple Insider By Daniel Eran Dilger Apple has opted to allow Motorola Mobility to win a default judgment in a German patent case that technically gives Motorola an injunction on iPhone sales in that country. According to a report by FOSS Patents blogger Florian ...

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