NTT DoCoMo said Monday a planned joint venture with Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC and other Japanese companies to design and sell LTE chips has been abandoned. NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator, launched LTE service on December 24, 2010 and reached one million subscribers one year later on December 25, 2011. Subscribers to their LTE mobile [...]
FreedomPop, backed by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, is developing an iPhone 4/4S case that provides free wireless broadband. Using Clearwire’s WiMax system, FreedomPop’s “freemium” WiMax service will deliver up to 1GB/month at no cost. It’s an iPhone 4/4S case with an integrated WiMax radio, provides a mobile hotspot. Those who go over the 1GB limit [...]
NetZero Wireless, a subsidiary of United Online, today announced the launch of NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband, an inexpensive WiMax service for laptops, tablets and netbooks. NetZero’s data plans start at zero dollars a month. That would be free. All data plans, including the free plan, requires the purchase of either a $99 NetZero 4G HotSpot [...]
Sprint Nextel has signed deals with at least 10 wholesale customers to buy capacity, reports Fierce Wireless. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Matt Carter, president of Sprint Wholesale, did not identify the companies but noted that the deals are in place. “We have signed contracts on LTE,” he said, adding that the [...]
This year’s Mobile World Congress, THE telecommunications event of the year, will spread across eight separate halls, host 1,400 exhibitors and accommodate more than 60,000 attendees. Everything about MWC is big — and getting bigger. Get the latest news at the Show Daily, Techmeme, Google News, C/Net, Fierce Wireless, Light Reading, Laptop Mag, PC Magazine, [...]
Google will sell its $500 million stake in Clearwire for $47 million, reports The Verge. Google today filed documents with the SEC in preparation for the sale of its entire stake in the troubled Clearwire Corporation. Google’s 6.5 percent would sell for a proposed $1.60 share price, dramatically undercutting the current $2.27 level. This will [...]
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