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alltel

Alltel Picks LTE for 4G Mobile Broadband

While Alltel isn't exactly the biggest fish in the carrier pond, its decision to use LTE for its upcoming 4G mobile broadband network further cements LTE's status as the dominant 4G tech. It's the third carrier in the US after Verizon and AT&T to go for LTE (Sprint is going the WiMax route, but we can assume T-Mobile will go LTE as well.) Like Verizon, Alltel's current network is CDMA, so it'll have to perform some behind-the-curtains magic to make everything flow smoothly once its post-2009 rollout begins, since LTE is a GSM technology. (If none of this made sense, here's a handy guide to mobile mumbo-jumbo.) [Electronista]

6:00 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By matt buchanan
905 views, 6 comments

Latest by uberfu: SO AT&T is rolling out 4G in 12 becuase they are trying to roll out 3G right now while everyone else [except Sprint] is already working on 4G? WTF AT&T - just skip the damned 3G already - you missed and more »

wimax

Sprint Says WiMax Is Officially Awesome, Ready for Service

So, Sprint's announcing that Sprint's WiMax network has officially passed Sprint's own tests for being ready for commercial service (and awesomeness). The criteria included overall and handoff performance, as well as handoff delay, with (semi) real-world testing going down in the Baltimore and DC-area networks. That's great, if it actually means the ball is finally rolling. But color us a believer when we can actually jump on to play with it. Witness WiMax's readiness in the press release below. More »

4:59 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By matt buchanan
2,917 views, 17 comments

Latest by Atrahasis: Check out [www.clearwire.com] to get a sense of the home service that will be available. I've seen several commercials lately, out of the blue, touting their WiMax service in my area. It appears they now offer home modem service instead of more »

wimax

Is WiMax All Washed Up? An Open Letter

Dear Sprint and Intel,
I'm sorry to hear about your recent WiMax delays and struggles, I really am. The Xohm service was originally scheduled to launch this month, but all you've given us are a few prototypes and half-baked demos in controlled environments—the public has yet to see the technology truly in action. WiMax in general and Xohm in particular have the potential for greatness, but you guys seem to have lost your way. Here are all the signs that WiMax may be washed up: More »

4:00 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Adrian Covert
9,893 views, 32 comments

Latest by bigMoneyMIKE: @matt buchanan: Sure Matt, I know we all will look forward to your editorial! I may be off on the time line of the build-out, perhaps its something like 95% penetration by end of '08 but I do know for more »

verizon

Verizon's $9.36 Billion 700MHz Plans: High-Speed 4G LTE Network Up and Running Before AT&T

Not that it wasn't obvious, but Verizon's 700MHz plans look a lot like AT&T's. It'll be using the spectrum as the core of their high-speed 4G LTE network. Verizon paid $9.36 billion total, including $4.7 billion for the open access C Block (apparently, it let Google sweat a bit before actually plunking down their bid). Unlike AT&T, which said you won't see commercial deployment of LTE 'til 2012, Verizon's shooting for 2010. It also countered AT&T's claims that Verizon's spectrum sucks: "The breadth of the national C-block spectrum footprint, all in a single band and with a depth of 22 MHz, provides a speed and performance advantage." We'll know soon enough, you know, in like 10 bajillion years when the networks launch. More »

10:29 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By matt buchanan
3,623 views, 28 comments

Latest by yoshi: @Gofastmazda: Verizon's first mistake, is spending billions on a bloated all fiber, to the home, network. Don't the cable companies already offer fiber to home networks? Look how crappy Time Warner and Comcast are Their second mistake was not taking the Apple more »

wimax

Nokia N810 WiMax Edition Tablet Hands On

Nokia took the shroud off its WiMAX-capable N810 Tablet today, which promises 4g mobile broadband speeds for the handheld internet tablet. The updated N810 will use Sprint's Xohm service, and adds a new mobile dimension to the device, which was previously Wi-Fi only.
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2:00 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Adrian Covert
10,391 views, 28 comments

Latest by shawn_dude: Xohm is slated to be in Tampa by the end of this year. Don't think I want to be a first mover on WiMax, especially since Sprint is the provider. I'll just purchase a regular N810. By more »

wimax

Comcast and Time Warner To Launch WiMax Network, Asking Sprint to Run It?

Cable operators Comcast and Time Warner plan to gather up $1.5 billion to $2 billion in order to get their own WiMax network going, and it's said that they would turn to Sprint to run the show. Now, I don't know what part of this plan makes sense to anyone else, but A) WiMax as a wide-area network technology isn't looking as hot in practice as it did in theory, and B) Sprint doesn't seem to be capable of running its own operation, let alone someone else's multi-billion-dollar baby. One thing is for sure, this move by the cable titans shows, like Dish Network's recent acquisition of some 700MHz spectrum, that everybody wants a piece of the wireless pie, even if they don't know exactly what to do with it. [AP]

9:44 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Wilson Rothman
1,703 views, 14 comments

Latest by willibes: I'd like to thank some people for being the voice of reason here. Big cable knows that they need to get in on the wireless revolution somehow, so why not jump in on 4-G? This is a win-win more »

cellphones

Nokia High Fives Verizon For Picking GSM 4G Technology

The biggest yet least splashy news may still be Verizon Wireless's choice of 4G network, that is, following parent Vodafone to Nokia's Long-Term Evolution rather than choosing the Sprint/Intel WiMax way or sticking with EV-DO. Today Nokia, the self-styled "the world leader in converged devices," applauded VZW for its new openness and willingness to evolve its network into "the open, global specification of LTE." This is particularly cute when you think about how relatively few Nokia handsets have turned up on Verizon's network to date. [Nokia]

10:07 AM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By Wilson Rothman
1,695 views, 11 comments

Latest by Sqube: CDMA is also done in Japan and Korea. But we all know how backwards they are when it comes to cell phone tech. more »

cellphones

Verizon Switches to GSM's Side For Ultra Highspeed 4G Technology

Verizon Wireless today announced it would support "Long Term Evolution" (LTE), the super fast 4G technology currently in testing from Nokia and its European friends in the 3GPP group, and operating at a blistering 100Mbps. It's certainly hot technology, but one seen as an extension of GSM's high-speed packet technology. This is a rejection of CDMA's EV-DO (which has a faster Rev. C that could have been rolled out) and a definite rejection of WiMax, which has been Sprint's chosen 4G technology. As dramatic as the shift is, it's not totally surprising when you look at Verizon's historic lack of compatibility with its European co-owner, Vodafone, an early LTE supporter. It also fits with Verizon's new pledge of openness: presumably this means interchangeable SIM cards for easier-to-swap phones and mobile devices. (Press release with lots of nice details after the jump.)
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8:10 AM on Thu Nov 29 2007
By Wilson Rothman
11,342 views, 21 comments

Latest by Brian B: @analogs: Yes but it matters to many GSM users. I refuse CDMA carriers because I like to change handsets, not to mention travel abroad. more »

cellphones

Sprint Adds NYC to WiMax Rollout Cities

When Sprint first announced the WiMax rollout cities, I was kind of pissed. Grand Rapids, Salt Lake City, and Providence all made the cut, but New York and San Francisco were conspicuously absent. Well, apparently Sprint heard my whining, as they've just announced that NYC will in fact be among the first cities getting sexy, sexy WiMax coverage. Turns out that Samsung will be building the infrastructure for Sprint in NYC, and the test markets should be set to go as soon as the fourth quarter of this year. Damn right, Sprint. [PhoneScoop via CrunchGear]

10:42 AM on Mon Aug 27 2007
By Adam Frucci
2,472 views, 11 comments

Latest by araevin: I just want to know when Miami will get some love. I moved here for reasons like this. I want to test out some cool new tech. But alas we as a people (miami) rarely get any interesting things. Sighs...... more »

apple

NES iPod Remote Makes Fred Savage Proud

If we were to grade a hack or a mod on nerdiness, this NES controller iPod remote would definitely be on the Dean's list this semester. Some guy took a PIC microcontroller, shoved it into the NES controller, and somehow got it to hook up to the 3G and 4G microcontroller port in Apple's iPod. The result: an extremely retro gadget controlling a slightly less retro gadget. [Instructables via Play Gadgets]

5:17 PM on Mon Aug 6 2007
By Jason Chen
2,905 views, 13 comments

Latest by styrofoam: NES? Pick a console from this millenium! Puhleeeze!(what did you expect?)And the Wizard was A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. It's where SMB3 debuted, for crying out loud. It wasn't an arthouse flick available only to the elite. Of course, nobody went more »

wireless

Sprint Announces WiMax Rollout Cities

Sprint has announced the launch city lineup for their upcoming 4G WiMax rollout, so pay attention. If you live in one of the following cities, you'll be enjoying fast, wireless access by April of next year:
Chicago, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, Washington DC, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, and Seattle
If you don't live in one of these cities, like all of the Giz editors, it sucks to be you. More »

7:20 PM on Tue Mar 27 2007
By Adam Frucci
8,378 views, 33 comments

Latest by gardoglee: Yes, boys and girls, Sprint is doing something strange and mysterious again. They are trying an ancient and long forgotten technique called "testing". This is something which vendors used to do in the dark ages which predated Windows more »

shanghai

Shanghai Tests Out 4G Network with Plans for HD-capable Mobiles

Just as more and more 3G enabled mobiles have been making their way to States, out comes Shanghai with their big, bad 4G network. According to the China Daily, Shanghai ran the world's first 4G trial yesterday. So what does 4G tech bring to the table? More »

12:45 PM on Mon Jan 29 2007
By Louis Ramirez
745 views, 4 comments

wireless

Sprint WiMax: 2-4Mbps, $55/month, Open Access? Yes, Please.

Here's yet another reason to hold off on buying that iPhone this year: Sprint's 4G WiMax wireless broadband is coming along nicely, and by next year should be available to 100 million customers. More »

12:30 PM on Fri Jan 19 2007
By Adam Frucci
4,494 views, 22 comments

cellphones

Wearable Finger-Based Cellphone Concept

Since the hand is the "most basic communication method," why not transform it into a cellphone? That's what designer Sunman Kwon did with this finger touching wearable mobile device, a concept that puts 3.5G and 4G technology on your fingertips. Each joint in your hand (save for the thumb) corresponds to 12 buttons. Just goes to show you that you don't need umpteen millions of VC dollars to create something unique. – Nicholas Deleon More »

3:24 PM on Tue Jan 16 2007
By Gizloco
1,211 views, 10 comments

wireless

T-Mobile's Announces 3G Data over UMTS, Late Better Than Never

Sometimes, peer pressure is good. One case: cellular data. While Sprint, Verizon, and even Cingular are already playing around with 3G speeds, T-Mobile, was stuck rocking the square EDGE/GPRS data connections that run at a little more than 100+Kbps. Until today. TMo just announced that they're finally going 3G, starting in Q4 of 2006. Gizmodo friend Nicole Lee of CNet notes, that this may be too little too late as Cingular's HSDPA network is technically 3.5G, and already in some areas. More »

7:59 PM on Mon Oct 9 2006
By Brian Lam
1,511 views, 3 comments

Latest by Churrito: Shouldn't that read Better Late Than Never? And yes indeed, T-mobile is lagging. more »

wireless

Samsung to Demo 4G Tech, Blazin' Fast Mobile Data Transfer Speeds

Forget 3G, let's just jump to 4G, mobile data transfer technology that Samsung will demonstrate at its annual Samsung 4G Forum in Korea. The 4G spec could be capable of a blazing 1Gbps data throughput speed. That's 50 times faster than WiMax technology that's expected to be in play by late 2007. Samsung says it will hold the 4G demo in a bus moving at 60kph, showing multi-cell handover at a data speed of 100Mbps. That's not 1Gbps, but still. More »

1:31 PM on Wed Aug 30 2006
By Charlie White
304 views, 3 comments

Latest by Blades: you're right. cdma is more superior than that of gsm. from what i remember in the 90's at&t was not even intrested in gsm but thx to ntt docomo, they kicked in so much $$$ to at&t to build their more »

cellphones

Nokia Year 2015 Cellphone Design Contest Winner Video


This concept cellphone was lionized back in June , but now we have a video of it in action. More »

11:33 AM on Mon Aug 28 2006
By Gizloco
1,213 views, 7 comments