Mobile operator Three UK has confirmed that it C, and said that existing customers with 4G-ready devices will be able to access the services at no extra cost. Rival operators O2 and Vodafone have joined EE in rolling out 4G services to ...
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Mobile network Three has introduced a new policy for its customers in which they can use their UK price plan while abroad. The new plan means that Three is initially eliminating roaming charges in seven countries: Republic of Ireland, ...
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Jolla, the mobile operating system start-up established by ex-Nokia employees, says that it has sold out the first batch of its forthcoming debut smartphone. Based on the Sailfish operating system, a refined version of Nokia's Linux-based ...
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Telefonica-owned mobile operator O2, has unveiled its 4G tariffs, and customers hoping that a switch to 4G would be cheaper than on rival EE will be left dissatisfied. O2 does not have a similar option to EE's cheapest price plan of ...
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O2's chief operating officer, Derek McManus, has claimed that the company's 4G network will be better than EE's, even though it will not work with the Apple iPhone 5. In an interview with Computing, McManus said that the £550m the ...
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Mobile network O2 has announced that its 4G service will launch in the UK on 29 August. The new network, which it claims will be up to five times faster than 3G, will be switched on in London, Leeds and Bradford first, followed by a ...
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Sprint says it will have live LTE sites using former Clearwire spectrum across the U.S. next year and expects all its new mobile devices in 2014 to be equipped for those frequencies -- though not necessarily iPhones. The company gave an ...
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Clearance of the airwaves earmarked for 4G mobile broadband will be completed by regulators today, enabling new 4G services to launch in the UK. Communications regulator Ofcom said that a large section of radio spectrum previously used ...
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US telecommunications giant AT&T has agreed to acquire Leap Wireless for $15 per share in cash, valuing the prepaid mobile operator at about $1.2bn (£800m). The move comes amid continued consolidation and restructuring in the ...
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In a survey among participants at LTE World Summit, Flash Networks, a provider of mobile Internet optimization and monetization solutions, revealed that while 50 percent of the executives surveyed rated their network as "very fast" (20mps ...
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Clearwire shareholders approved Sprint Nextel's takeover of their company on Monday, ending a saga that had included years of uncertainty and finally a bidding war for the spectrum-rich wireless network operator. Sprint co-founded ...
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EE, the joint venture between France Telecom's Orange and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile, is to start offering its business customers data sharing plans across entire fleets of mobile devices. The UK's biggest mobile operator, and currently ...
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Verizon Wireless has completed the initial rollout of its 4G LTE network, covering 95% of the U.S. population, and is now looking to reuse other spectrum for LTE and deploy small cells using the technology. On Thursday, in Parkersburg, W. ...
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Japan's Pioneer has launched a car navigation system that uses heads-up displays and virtual reality to guide drivers. Pioneer's new car navigation system includes a heads up display that mounts on the ceiling and uses a laser to ...
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Dish Network has dropped its offer to buy Clearwire, probably clearing the path for a strengthened Sprint Nextel to complete its takeover of the struggling but spectrum-rich mobile operator. Both SoftBank's US$21.6 billion acquisition of ...