Verizon Wireless reported good profits for the quarter ended 31 December 2010, trumpeting “strong growth in revenue, strong retail postpaid ARPU, and growth in traditional customers and other connections.” Verizon Wireless reported: A 7.7 percent increase in service revenues from 4Q 2009; data revenues up 25.5 percent; 30.1 percent operating income margin and a 47.5 [...]
My Lord, the fleet has moved out of lightspeed. – The Empire Strikes Back Korean researchers successfully demonstrated LTE-Advanced technology, which is six times faster than the upcoming LTE network (up to 100 Mbps). The ITU has designated two methods to deploy 100 Mbps mobile networks, one based on LTE (LTE-Advanced) and one based on [...]
President Barack Obama on Tuesday called for expanding high-speed wireless services for consumers and businesses, during his State of the Union Speech. “Within the next five years, we will make it possible for business to deploy the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage to 98% of all Americans. This isn’t just about a faster internet [...]
Gizmodo explains Why Your Call Dropped: Towers each carry calls placed within a certain radius. In an open, rural environment, this radius can be a few kilometers. In a city, it can be well under 500 yards. These areas of coverage generally overlap, so that there’s nowhere a phone can be where it doesn’t have [...]
Apple plans to introduce “Near-Field Communication,” services, reports Bloomberg, that would let customers use its iPhone and iPad computer to make purchases. According to Richard Doherty, director of consulting firm Envisioneering Apple’s NFC technology is due to be embedded in the next iPhone for AT&T and the iPad 2. Both products are likely to be [...]
A poll (pdf), conducted two weeks ago by Appcelerator and research firm IDC, polled more than 2,200 developers and found that 92% said that they were “very interested” in creating apps for the iPhone, while 87% answered the same for Android-based smartphones, a five point jump since the last poll three months ago. “Android tablet [...]
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