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Comcast is the fastest broadband provider in the U.S. — Broadband ...
By Om Malik
Comcast, the Philadelphia-based cable company, was the fastest broadband service provider in the U.S., according to Ookla, a broadband speed test company. In fact, Comcast and its cable industry peers trounced the phone companies ...
GigaOM

3 Scandinavia Selects Aptilo Networks for 3G and LTE Service Delivery
MarketWatch (press release)
STOCKHOLM and LONDON, January 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Aptilo Networks, a leading provider of systems to manage mobile data servicesfor Wi-Fi, WiMAX and 3G/LTE networks, including mobile data offloading, announced today that Aptilo's Policy ...

Virgin sorry for broadband mix-up
The Press Association
Virgin Media has apologised to some of its broadband customers after it mistakenly sent out an email saying they would all be getting "super-fast" connections. The message was intended only for those who pay for the fastest internet connection, ...

Report: iPad 3 with LTE Rolling Out in March
Sci-Tech Today
"So to me LTE makes a whole lot of sense as part of the iPad 3, along with the high-resolution screen, faster rendering, and better games. With LTE, iPad 3 users could leverage iCloud." "Apple is trying to make iCloud the place people go to store all ...

Sci-Tech Today

Altair Semiconductor Completes LTE Band Class 14 Interoperability Testing with ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Band 14 spectrum, which is in the 700 MHz frequency, has been allocated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for public safety broadband use in the United States. Public safety broadband solutions over LTE will enable first responders, ...

Cable: Fastest Broadband in the Land
Multichannel News
By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 1/16/2012 12:01:00 AM Cable operators delivered the fastest average broadband download speeds in 2011 — with major MSOs easily blasting by rival telco and satellite Internet services — per data from independent ...

OSS Nokalva and WizYa Technologies Demonstrate LTE UE-eNodeB Interoperability
MarketWatch (press release)
SOMERSET, NJ, Jan 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- OSS Nokalva, Inc. and WizYa Technologies, Ltd. demonstrated interoperability between a multi UE protocol stack based on OSS Nokalva's LTE UE protocol stack and Nomor Research's LTE eNodeB protocol ...

China Mobile and Clearwire Announce Agreement on TD-LTE Device Test ...
MarketWatch (press release)
17, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- China Mobile, the world's largest mobile network and customer base in the world, and Clearwire Corporation /quotes/zigman/112837/quotes/nls/clwr CLWR -3.11% , a leading provider of 4G wireless broadband services in the ...

Broadband grows sharply
DAWN.com
KARACHI: The broadband Internet service in Pakistan is witnessing sharp growth as the number of subscribers has grown by more than 60 per cent during last fiscal, with operators pinning hopes that the customer base is likely to double in the next two ...

DAWN.com

Sprint Will Stop Announcing New WiMax Smartphones and Focus on 4G LTE
Gotta Be Mobile
Sprint will stop announcing new smartphones, tablets, mobile hotspots, and other consumer embedded solutions that utilize's the network's 4G WiMax connectivity and instead choose to focus on building out its 4G LTE network and releasing new devices ...

More airlines add Wi-Fi, but fliers balk at paying
USA TODAY
By Nancy Trejos, USA TODAY Travelers are treating in-flight Wi-Fi like a bag of peanuts: They'll take it, if it's free. Airlines are spending millions of dollars to equip planes with Wi-Fi capability. But only a small percentage of travelers have used ...

Shaw Wi-Fi plans raise fears
Vancouver Sun
By Lewis Kelly, Edmonton Journal January 17, 2012 5:35 AM Shaw Communications will launch its municipal Wi-Fi networks some-time this spring. The project, currently undergoing public pilot testing in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver, ...

Broadband Access: An Economic Development Tool for Cities
Nation's Cities Weekly
by Julia Pulidindi As evidenced by a recent surge of public investment in technology, the nexus between broadband access and a community's economic wellbeing is becoming more defined. Funding in 2009's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act reinforced ...

IDC Hosts First Biannual New England State Government Broadband Summit
MarketWatch (press release)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Jan 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- On December 8, 2011, International Data Corporation (IDC) hosted its first New England State Government Broadband Summit. Attending the summit were representatives from broadband and telecom ...

GPS users warn wireless 4G would disrupt signals
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
LightSquared Inc.'s plan to build 40000 towers transmitting 4G broadband signals has brought warnings that it would create GPS dead zones across the nation. That's because strong signals from the towers would drown out weaker signals used for ...

PS Vita: Europe to edge towards Wi-Fi model, expects Sony
Computerandvideogames.com
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House has said he expects European consumers to edge towards the Wi-Fi only Vita model when the portable launches in the West on February 22. Vita will come in two flavours, a Wi-Fi only model costing £229.99 and ...

Exede Satellite Internet Service Is Breaking News for Broadband Industry
Sacramento Bee
17, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Today, MyBlueDish.com announced Exede Satellite Internet Service by ViaSat as being the company's latest broadband offering. This news has been expected for some time now, after a new satellite was launched toward the last ...

O3b's super satellite broadband coming in 2013
GigaOm
17, 2012, 6:34am PT No Comments O3b Networks, a Google-backed, satellite-based telecom company, says it will launch its revolutionary new satellite-broadband service next year. Steve Collar, chief executive of the company (till recently with O3b ...

PLDT extends free Wi-Fi access until end of month
Sun.Star
PLDT has extended its free Wi-Fi access to Cebu-based landline and DSL subscribers after implementing the first multiple access point outdoor Wi-Fi service during the Sinulog Festival in Cebu City. PLDT WiFi Zones were initially set up to allow users ...

Broadband goes sky-high
ITWeb (blog)
Vox Telecom is on track for the commercial launch of a “low-cost satellite Internet broadband” service that will cover the greater part of SA, in June. Having signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi-based satellite provider Yahsat in May 2010, Vox serves as ...

Three should not be crowded out of the 4G spectrum
The Guardian
Their arguments are being listened to because cash is about to be poured into rolling out super-fast mobile broadband across Europe. The costs are high. The largest ever sale of British airspace, due to start at the end of this year, could raise up to ...

The Guardian

Kuala Lumpur Mandates WiFi for All Restaurants
Voice of America
January 16, 2012 Kuala Lumpur Mandates WiFi for All Restaurants Yong Yen Nie | Kuala Lumpur In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, many still enjoy a simple breakfast of coffee and toast from modest and traditional-looking coffee shops for under RM2 (about 65 ...

LTE Smartphones to Assume 5% of Shipments in 2012
GizmoCrave
LTE is an advanced mobile communication module, which was a subject under study for the 4G system. The module was later approved by International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Later, a number of smartphone devices that work on LTE networks have been ...

GizmoCrave

4G LTE, the Best (and Least) Understood Feature of the Next Gen iPad
PadGadget
By Lory | January 17, 2012 | No comment yet Bloomberg recently reported that the upcoming third generation of iPad is rumored to run on 4G LTE networks. While this may seem like tech jargon to some, if it is true, it may just be the best feature of the ...

PadGadget

Crossbeam Announces Availability of Heavy Reading Whitepaper: Testing High ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The whitepaper, titled "Testing High Performance Mobile Firewalls for 4G-LTE Networks," examines the results of the industry's first public network security tests that emulate more than a million simultaneous mobile subscribers using their smartphones ...

Proposed 4G internet service would interfere with GPS systems in Wisconsin
WSAU
Light-Squared Incorporated is offering "4G" service that would meet the federal government's goal of providing broadband Internet coverage nationwide by 2015. But a new government report says the Light-Squared system would create interference in ...

ComCom finds own broadband barrier
Stuff.co.nz
The Commerce Commission will not webcast a much-anticipated conference examining impediments to the take-up of ultrafast broadband as it says the costs are ''prohibitive''. The conference, which will be held in Auckland late next month, is shaping up ...

LTE-based Huawei Ascend P1 in development?
IntoMobile
According to Japanese Blog of Mobile website, that extra space could also be used for an additional radio – LTE. That's right, the Chinese company may actually release a 4G-enabled smartphone, something that would give it a spot in the “first league of ...

Avago Technologies Introduces High-Gain Linear Power Amplifier for 4G LTE ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The new MGA-43128 amplifier provides superior signal transmission quality with low power consumption for LTE AP, CPE, and Picocell equipment and can also serve as a base station driver amplifier. Designed for superior signal quality while transmitting ...

Nokia ready to support LTE technology in India
NDTV
PTI, January 17, 2012, Mobile handset manufacturer Nokia today said the company was ready to support Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology when it arrives in India, a company official said. "Nokia is ready to provide handsets which would be LTE-enabled ...

Oregon Scientific's Portable WiFi Projector comes with a hinge, flirts ...
By Richard Lai
A projector from Oregon Scientific, you say? Nope, it's not one of those clock and weather projectors, but rather an actual DLP pico projector.
Engadget

LTE smartphones to account for nearly 5% of smartphone shipments ...
By Todd Haselton
Smartphones capable of running on 4G LTE networks will account for between 4% and 5% of all smartphones that ship this year, according to one report. T.
BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

Wi-Fi Cufflinks » Coolest Gadgets
By Edwin
Yes sir, this is definitely no ordinary pair of cufflinks, and it is a far better idea than GPS-integrated underpants. Apart from carrying around a portable, built-in Wi-Fi hotspot capability, it also holds 2GB of internal memory, while making sure that ...
Coolest Gadgets

Samsung Galaxy S2 WiMAX announced for Japan | Ubergizmo
By George Wong
It feels like Samsung isn't ever going to run out of Galaxy S2 phones to make. The company has announced just announced a new variant of the Galaxy S2, this time it's headed for Japan's KDDI au and it features [...]
Ubergizmo

AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4G LTE in white Hands-on | Android ...
By Cory Gunther
Coming to AT&T soon is the Samsung Galaxy Note that we've all seen plenty of lately. AT&T will be selling this 5.3 AMOLED HD packing smartphone in both black.
Android Community

dailywireless.org » iPad 3: First with LTE?
By Sam Churchill
Apple's next iPad is expected to go on sale in March, and sport a high-definition screen, a quad-core processor, and work on LTE networks, reports Bloomberg. Apple is bringing LTE to the iPad before the iPhone because the tablet has a ...
dailywireless.org

Future of Unlimited Data for Sprint LTE Users Not Yet Determined
By Quentyn Kennemer
Sprint will soon be rolling out their LTE network and just as when Verizon did it, many have wondered what this would mean for the future of their truly.
Android Phone Fans

iPad 5 and iPhone Clamshell Found in Laos
By Jon Russell
Laos is a country well known for counterfeiting and Apple products are no different as an iPad 5 and iPhone clamshell found locally show.
The Next Web

iClarified - Apple News - Share Files By Wi-Fi Across All iOS And ...
AirForShare allows multiple users of iOS devices to wirelessly share text, links, and files between all their iOS and OSX devices that are on the same Wi-Fi network.
iClarified - Apple News

Quanta Computer leads in LTE terminal devices among Taiwan ...
Quanta Computer has gained the upper hand over other Taiwan-based makers in development and shipments of LTE (Long Term Evolution) terminal devices including handsets, mobile routers and dongles, according to industry sources.
DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia

Samsung Galaxy S II WiMAX Announced For Japan | Geeky Gadgets
By Roland Hutchinson
Samsung has launched a new version if its massively popular Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone for Japan, the Samsung Galaxy S II WiMax which will be available with Japan's KDDI au.
Geeky Gadgets

Broadband for Bear Cubs « Blandin on Broadband
By Ann Treacy
I always like to see Minnesota in the news for broadband related activity. Today's news is a little different and the funny thing is that the news comes to me direct from the Sarasota Herald (FLA). Apparently Lily the bear's sister will be giving ...
Blandin on Broadband

Sprint Will Introduce No More WiMAX Smartphones
By info@brighthand.com
Sprint is in the process of switching from providing 4G service with WiMAX to the rival standarrd LTE. The company has passed an important milestone: it will release no more devices with WiMAX.
Brighthand.com Handheld News and Reviews

AppleInsider | 4G iPhone expected to help LTE smartphones reach ...
Smartphones compatible with new high-speed 4G long-term evolution networks are projected to account for between 4 and 5 percent of global handset ...
www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=18221

ATandT, Verizon, Sprint unleash 4G LTE Android phones, tablets ...
ATandT Verizon Sprint unleash 4G LTE Android phones tablets News Linux for Devices: AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and Sprint announced a bevy of Android ...
www.linuxfordevices.com/.../CES-smartphone-and-tablet-ann...

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