Huawei has announced commercial availability of the world’s first LTE TDD wireless broadband router, the Huawei B593, through Saudi Arabian operator Mobily in October this year, in conjunction with their large-scale LTE TDD network. The Huawei B593 supports LTE TDD and FDD, features a download speed of up to 100M and provides access to up [...]
British Telecom’s Openzone and its partner Fon networks, which claims it has 2.8 million Wi-Fi hotspots in the U.K. and Ireland and its competitor in the UK, The Cloud, with some 22,000 hotspots internationally are now getting free Wi-Fi competition. Mobile operator 02 and Virgin Media have recently announced free WiFi throughout the UK. A [...]
Carlson Wireless says its Rural Connect IP radio can bring wireless broadband connectivity to rural and underserved areas using White Spaces, reports Urgent Communications. Rural Connect 2, their new white space radio, will be built to the recently ratified IEEE 802.22 standard that governs white-space devices. It’s expected to reach the market in four to [...]
Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA and AT&T will begin selling the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S II in September, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. A WiMAX version for Sprint will sell for $199 (likely with a service contract). The Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) phone features a 1.2 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9, a 4.3″, 800×480 [...]
Hurricane Irene, a category 3 hurricane, is expected to make landfall in North Carolina sometime Saturday with winds likely around 115 mph. The storm is then anticipated to make its way up the coasts of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Wireless infrastructure like switching stations and [...]
Global smartphone shipments will soar to 1.03 billion units in 2015, resulting in a global smartphone share of 54.4 percent, reports iSuppli Mobile Handset Market Tracker. The worldwide dominance of smartphones is all the more remarkable considering that smartphones accounted for only 15.8 percent of the total cellphone market in 2009. Some 478 million smartphones [...]
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