As telecom companies in Africa scramble to adopt next-generation mobile services to boost revenue, MTN South Africa has launched a commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) network with the help of Ericsson. The network is the first to be ...
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Nokia Siemens Networks is looking to sell its business support systems (BSS) unit to focus on its mobile broadband network equipment division. According to several reports – including Reuters and the Wall Street Journal – ...
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PC World-AT&T held onto its last place position in Consumer Reports ranking of the four major U.S.cellphone carriers.But the company can point to one bright spot in the annual ratings published by Consumer Reports Thursday:AT&Ts 4G service ...
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A plan by a satellite carrier to make better use of its spectrum could open up an extra channel for Wi-Fi in the U.S.,though how and when consumers would get to use it isn't yet clear. The proposal that satellite operator Globalstar ...
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AT&T announced general availability of its Enhanced Push-to-Talk service on Tuesday,taking on Sprint's Direct Connect Now app as the carriers vie to attract users of the fading Nextel network. Nextel pioneered push-to-talk(PTT)long before ...
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AT&T will sell two Samsung tablets starting Friday:the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 for$499.99 and the ATIV Smart PC for$799.99. Both are eligible for a$100 discount when purchased with any Samsung Galaxy smartphone on a two-year contract. The ...
IDG News Service-Microsoft said Thursday it will team up with Japan's largest mobile operator,NTT DoCoMo,to push Windows 8 on tablets to corporate customers. The companies said they will work together to come up with business solutions ...
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AT&T reported revenue of $31.5 billion for the third quarter of this year, flat compared to the third quarter of 2011, while net income was up slightly to $3.6 billion. Revenue in AT&T's wireless division grew 6.6% to $16.6 billion but ...
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Computerworld-Verizon Wireless'Share Everything plan,introduced in June,has helped boost the average Verizon wireless phone bill by 6.5%to$145 a month. That bill increase,reported in third-quarter results on Thursday,helped Verizon ...
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IDG News Service - If $8 billion shows up in Sprint Nextel's wallet as planned in Softbank's proposed takeover, the No. 3 U.S. mobile operator may pay off debt, speed up its rollout of LTE, or even buy its network partner, Clearwire. ...
A recent independent study of LTE coverage within four U.S.cities showed Sprint's networks lagging far behind those of both Verizon Wireless and AT&T. In comprehensive testing in Dallas,Fort Worth,Kansas City and Atlanta in mid-August and ...
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Will U.S.regulators balk over Japan-based SoftBank becoming a 70%owner of Sprint,based in Overland Park,Kansas.? On the surface,analysts say the foreign ownership issue is unlikely to derail the$20.1 billion deal. Sprint and others ...
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HARRISONBURG,Va.--Long lines formed for days outside of Apple stores in major cities to buy the iPhone 5 today,but smaller crowds also gathered in college towns like Harrisonburg,Va.,where the longest wait was overnight in front of the AT&T ...
IDG News Service - T-Mobile USA will officially start a new chapter when a new CEO, John Legere, takes over later this week. The fourth-largest U.S. carrier, and the biggest operator without an iPhone, T-Mobile is starting to aggressively ...
Apple's iPhone 5 goes on sale Friday,and many buyers are hoping to take advantage of its faster LTE network speeds. AT&T said Wednesday it added LTE to five large markets this week,listing Seattle,Pittsburgh,metro ...
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