Cisco Systems today announced Cisco has made an equity investment in Grid Net, a smart grid company that uses WiMAX technology. Grid Net, a WiMAX utility meter solution, transmits data between smart meters and utilities. Grid Net apparently got the nod because WiMAX offered higher speeds, more bandwidth, and open architecture, says Grid Net CEO [...]
US prepaid regional operator MetroPCS looks set to beat its larger rival Verizon Wireless to launch of an LTE handset. Samsung yesterday unveiled its SCH-r900 LTE smartphone, a multimode device that falls back onto CDMA networks when out of the reach of LTE. In a statement, the South Korean vendor noted that “the Samsung SCH-r900 [...]
Mobile subscribers are downloading more apps than ever, says a new In-Stat report, released Wednesday. Apple and its App Store are seeing the most action, with iPhone and iPod Touch users downloading 2.4 times more apps than the other smartphone owners. But tighter competition is forcing lower prices for some apps, which means that developers [...]
AT&T’s new MicroCell home basestation will be rolled out across the country this April, following months of 3G femtocell testing, reports Unstrung. AT&T’s femtocell routes wireless phone calls and data connections across a home broadband connection. It uses cellular frequencies in the home rather than WiFi. AT&T is the first major wireless carrier in the [...]
Qwest Communications has filed an application for a federal stimulus grant to extend broadband at speeds of 12 to 40 Mbps to rural communities throughout its local service region. “Much like the water and electric programs the government established to encourage rural development, federal grants are needed to enable the deployment of broadband to high-cost, [...]
High-Speed Internet customers of both Time Warner Cable and Cablevision will be able to access free, unlimited Wi-Fi services in each other’s New York City metro service areas at designated Wi-Fi zones. The partnership allows Time Warner Cable’s Roadrunner service and Cablevision’s Optimum WiFi to use each other’s WiFi hotspots at no charge. Time Warner [...]
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