Some wireless and wired communications services downed by Hurricane Sandy have been restored over the past 24 hours, but FCC officials said Wednesday afternoon that several serious outages remain in New York, New Jersey and some other hard ...
Tags: wireless communications, wired communications, communications services
Apple has offered to pay Google's Motorola Mobility unit up to one dollar per device for a license to its patents covering cellular and Wi-Fi technologies. Apple's offer, disclosed in a filing to the U.S. District Court for the Western ...
Tags: Apple, Google, Motorola Mobility unit, patents
IDG News Service - The launch of the first commercial Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) services took place last week, but most operators are likely to take a cautious approach as they face technical and business challenges. U.S. operator MetroPCS ...
Tags: VoLTE services, cautious approach, MetroPCS, SK Telecom
A recent study by four UCLA documents what some wireless data customers have long suspected -- that users can be charged for wireless data they never received. In the most extreme case of overcharging, an unnamed carrier charged the ...
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When Apple announces its next iPhone as expected on Wednesday, many analysts predict it will have faster LTE wireless capability along with other improvements, including a larger 4-in. display, more powerful processor and overall design ...
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While Apple is moving to LTE with the iPhone 5, it's focused for now on North America and advanced Asian markets, leaving Europe's most important LTE bands behind. The iPhone 5 will come in three versions, equipped to use different sets ...
T-Mobile USA's merger with MetroPCS, announced early Wednesday, promises to create the "leading value" wireless carrier in the U.S., according to officials from both companies. Their claim is based primarily on the premise that the merger ...
Tags: T Mobile, MetroPCS, wireless carrier, U.S., LTE wireless network
Huawei has announced its collaboration with SELEX Elsag, a company within the Finmeccanica group, for the construction of the first railway line in the United Arab Emirates, that will be completed by the end of 2014. Huawei, a leading ...
Tags: Huawei, SELEX Elsag, railway line, communication technology
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn,MA,USA,which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors,says that its newest family of antenna switch modules are powering the world's smallest 4G LTE datacards from ZTE. "Skyworks is delighted to ...
Tags: Skyworks Solutions, semiconductors, LTE Datacards, ZTE
Qualcomm has lowered its forecast of global cellular device shipments for 2012 due to a gloomy economic outlook, though it expects device sales to surge in the fourth quarter because of upcoming products, a likely reference to Apple's ...
Tags: Qualcomm, lobal cellular device, 2012, Apple, iPhone, Microsoft
Japanese electronics heavyweights Fujitsu and NEC, together with the country's largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo, said Wednesday they will form a new joint venture to build and sell wireless chips for smartphones. The venture, Access ...
Tags: Fujitsu, NTT DoCoMo, NEC, joint venture, wireless chips, smartphones
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched a family of highly efficient front-end solutions for smart water and gas metering applications. The front-end solutions ...
Tags: Skyworks, smart water, smart metering application, smart utility
Softbank will soon offer a new satellite phone for use in earthquakes and other natural disasters. The Japanese carrier said Monday it has teamed with Thuraya, a Dubai-based provider of satellite operator services and phones, to offer ...
Tags: Computer Products, Softbank, Satellite, Phone, Earthquakes
As the latest iPhone went on sale Friday, with T-Mobile USA once again left out of the party, the fourth-place U.S. carrier started turning on a network that is designed to offer high data rates on unlocked iPhones. On Friday, T-Mobile ...
Tags: USA, T Mobile, iPhone, high data rates
Despite widespread calls for more spectrum to carry mobile data, there is a wide range of technologies already being used or explored that could help to speed up networks or put off the day when more frequencies need to be cleared. ...
Tags: spectrum, mobile data, technologies, could, networks