At CTIA 2013 today Verizon is live streaming a press announcement, one of the few from large carriers at the show. Verizon announced a new company, VivaMovil, which will support the Latino market. Jennifer Lopez is the chief creative officer and majority owner in Viva Movil. Lopez said the U.S. Latino market represents $1.2 trillion [...]
Verizon Wireless has promised single-mode LTE devices in 2014, and 4G LTE-only smartphones may be included in the line-up by the end of the year. Single mode phones would use voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) and would not require CDMA for voice fall-back. Dual mode phones are compatible with more than one form of data transmission. Verizon says [...]
Charlie Ergen, chairman of Dish Network, has made a $2 billion bid for radio frequencies from LightSquared , reports Bloomberg. Ergen has offered to buy the spectrum even though the Federal Communications Commission has yet to approve its use, according to the people, who asked not to be named because the deal hasn’t been shown [...]
Canada’s four wireless players are maneuvering for advantage reports the Globe and Mail. It would represent a failure in the government’s years-long push to create more competition in the wireless business, according to the Globe and Mail. Mobile Service in Canada is Overpriced and Anti-Competitive, according to numerous studies. Mobilicity is one of three small [...]
The 4G LTE industry has hit 100 million global connections, according to Wireless Intelligence. The research firm says there are 163 LTE networks in operation across 70 countries. By December 2017, they forecast over 400 networks will be live across 120 countries. Joss Gillet, senior analyst at Wireless Intelligence, expects there to be over 900 [...]
In the continuing the war of words with Dish, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son used the company’s TD-LTE handset launch event in Tokyo to underscore SoftBank’s experience. Softband is using a TD-LTE-enabled the Sharp Aquos Phone with a 4.5-inch 720p LCD screen, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, and a 12-megapixel camera. China Mobile’s four new TD-LTE phones [...]
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