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NTT DoCoMo Will Show LTE Handset This Month
Mobile phone equipment maker NEC has said NTT DoCoMo will demonstrate a prototype LTE handset this month at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain.
NEC said that prototype will show the "transmission of high-resolution video through its ‘LTE-PF’ equipped communications platform and showcases...
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WiMAX Coming to Rural India by Year-End
The government owned BNSL plans to begin building a WiMAX broadband service in rural areas by year-end, according to Press Trust of India (PTI), which said the information came from a BSNL official. ...
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Independent Test Shows 4G Speeds up to 47 Mbps Down
An independent test of TeliaSonera’s 4G broadband service showed downlink data speeds up to 47 Mbps and latency as low as approximately five times greater than the performance typically seen in 3G networks that have been upgraded to 3G’s fastest equipment, HSPA+.
The tests were conducted with...
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Alca-Lu Exec: LTE Has Won the 4G Market Against WiMAX
The battle is over between LTE and WiMAX for supremacy in the 4G wars, Alcatel-Lucent’s COO for wireless Patrick Plas said in a CNET report. He said mobile phone operators have overwhelmingly selected LTE over WiMAX.
Plas also said his company is "not putting a lot of...
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Microsoft Touts White Space Spectrum in India
Microsoft has been one of the biggest proponents of using the "white spaces" spectrum in the US TV bands for unlicensed wireless broadband, according to a report from Wireless Watch. This has been approved by the FCC but anti-interference mechanisms and commercial devices are still to be finalized....
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Time Warner Cable to Start Pushing WiMAX Mobile Broadband
Comcast has been the swiftest of the three cableco backers of Clearwire to roll out Clearwire-based services, but Time Warner Cable (TWC) is turning up the heat now.
Its offering is branded Road Runner Mobile. CEO Glenn Britt said on the company’s Q4 results call. "I...
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