The battle for 4G deployment and dominance is heating up as the cellular carriers continue to address the exponentially expanding bandwidth needs of mobile users and their Smartphone devices. The pervasiveness of WiMax and 700 MHz infrastructures will continue to be the key to functional carrier macro connectivity for users outside of multi-tenant commercial properties, with WIN’s Indoor Cellular Enhancements (ICE) Service Access Plan being the key to connectivity inside your building.
As the device manufacturers and software providers continue to introduce inventively unexpected business and personal mobile applications, the existing spectrum will inevitably be taxed. In fact, keep an eye on the pending FCC announcement due out on March 17, 2010 suggesting an additional allocation of 500 MHz of bandwidth over the next ten years!
As always…to learn more about what’s happening in this burgeoning industry, please feel free to contact me directly via cell (of course), assuming that your cell phone works where you do?!!
By Phil Goldstein FierceWireless.com February 19, 2010 10:32am
Sprint Nextel said it will launch its first dual-mode 3G/4G smartphone in the first half of this year running on Clearwire's mobile WiMAX network, a few months earlier than many had been expecting.
Paget Alves, Sprint's president of Business Markets, said in an interview with Forbes that the device will be out by the summer and that he expects business and government users will use the phone as well, not just consumers. Sprint has been extremely coy about the device, which may turn out to be the rumored HTC Supersonic. More…
AT&T Roars Back in PCWorld’s Second 3G WirelessPerformance Test
By Mark Sullivan PCWorld Feb 22, 2010 10:12 pm
AT&T says it has worked hard to improve its much-maligned 3G network over the last eight months--erecting hundreds of new cell towers, using better-performing wireless spectrum, and souping up its cell sites across the country--and the results of our latest 13-city 3G network performance tests suggest that the network has indeed undergone a drastic makeover.
After registering the lowest average download speeds in our 3G performance tests last spring, AT&T’s network turned in download speeds that were 72 percent better than the numbers from eight months ago; in our latest tests, AT&T's download speeds were 67 percent faster on average than those of the other three largest U.S. wireless providers--Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon.More…
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