On May 20th, T-Mobile will sell monthly 4G data access sans contracts.

T-Mobile USA is handing pink slips to 900 more employees in its second round of layoffs since March, when its CEO warned that more cuts could be in store.

mobile broadband, mobile payments/banking, and others. At the same time the operators are rolling out national fibre backbone networks to support the ever increasing demand for bandwidth. At least two operators are rolling out fourth generation (4G) LTE ...

This week, Bangalore became the second 4G-enabled city in the country after Kolkata

I asked the head of a 4G trade organization what 4G means.

Sprint Nextel moved forward with plans to expand its WiMAX-based “4G” service to its prepaid portfolio ... Rate plans for the mobile broadband offering will begin at $35 per month for unlimited WiMAX data and 2 GB of 3G data.

The recent data on LTE subscriptions in the U.S. and Canada proves that with the increasing adaption of LTE 4G technologies, the mobile industry in North America is about to enter into a new

"As one of the largest chip providers for a wide range of devices in the WiMAX ecosystem ... markets in the U.S., Clearwire's LTE Advanced-ready network should position the company as the clear leader in 4G mobile broadband technology, capable of serving ...

Everything Everywhere's bid to launch 4G services in the UK later this year has created quite a stir, with rival operators O2, Vodafone and Three claiming that the move could damage competition in the market. But is the proposal a real threat to competition or just big fuss about nothing? Everything Everywhere (the combined entity of Orange and T-Mobile) holds a large portion of spectrum at 1800MHz – currently used for 2G. The company hopes to steal a march on other operators by refarming this s

If you subscribe to the data and timing presented in the National Broadband Policy (NBP) - Connecting America, the US will likely begin to witness the effects of a spectrum crunch as early as next year.  The US wireless carriers continue to argue that ever increasing smartphone traffic is threatening to overwhelm their networks, and are asking the government for help. But if or when it will actually happen is the subject of much speculation and some experts maintain that technology already has the answers. 

“Arguing that the nation could run out of spectrum is like saying it was going to run out of a color,” quipped Dr. David Reed, now Senior Vice President, Chief Scientist Group, SAP Labs.  As far back as a decade ago, Reed, who was at that time a professor at MIT, has challenged notions of spectrum scarcity, asserting that regulatory allocation of spectrum “is a legal metaphor that does not correspond to physical reality.” 

Reed’s argument is deeply rooted in RF engineering and physics but can be quite simply stated as, “the capacity of a certain bandwidth in a certain physical space increases with the number of transceivers in a given space.”  In other words, the more radios you have the more capacity you have.  On the surface it may not seem Reed’s assertions are well grounded, especially if you see it through a model based on assigned allocation of spectrum.

It wasn't until I was walking out of the venerable FIRA convention center at Mobile World Congress for the last time late on Feb. 29 that I realized it was a leap day.

And overall, this seemed fitting, because an informal message I took from the event is that 2012 meets many of the criteria to be what I consider a technology "leap year." Although much more difficult to define, and lacking the cadence of a calendar leap year, the impact of a technology leap year can be much more profound than simply having one additional day to analyze telecom trends.

Essentially, I define a technology leap year as one in which critical technologies take the leap from development to commercialization and monetization phases. The upside is more innovative services and applications for end users; the downside for some vendors and carriers is that it accelerates the rate of legacy service erosion.

The FCC is getting serious about providing high-speed mobile broadband connections ... bring 3G data within 2 years, or 4G data speeds within 3. Hopefully these carriers will opt for the latter option, as LTE (or WiMax, for that matter) would ...

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), the industry leader in technology for small cell base stations, today announced ...

Clearwire Corp. will be launching a 4G Long-Term Evolution network in Chicago and 30 other cities during the first half of 2013, the Bellevue, Wash.-based carrier said Thursday.

Clearwire's hardly throwing in the towel after that whole "WiMAX" thing; instead, the outfit has its sights firmly set on bringing TDD-LTE to the masses here in America, starting with an initial rollout in early 2013. A release put out today confirms that New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle will be among the 31 cities where the company will launch the aforesaid network ...