4G

AT&T prepares to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion, awkward marketing moments ensue

It'll be hard for any vendor or carrier at CTIA Wireless this week to trump the bombshell that AT&T and T-Mobile USA dropped on Sunday -- that the No. 1 wireless carrier in the U.S. is acquiring the No. 4 carrier for $39 billion. It seems that few industry pundits saw this coming, as much of...

Talking up new hope for carrier packet voice services

That packetized voice is the key to keeping voice services alive may be the duh statement of the decade, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. I know — voice is so last century that no one talks about it as a killer app. But it still is, and i t doesn’t even take much bandwidth to...

NSN gobbles up some of Motorola’s wireless network infrastructure goodies

Nothing like starting off the week with a bang. Nokia Siemens Networks announced today it's paying $1.2 billion for some of Motorola's wireless technologies -- and perhaps just as significant, its customer base and foothold into the North American market. Here's the rest of the details from...

High demand for Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G; vlogger sparks smartphone beef

We've been keeping an eye on the market's response to the HTC EVO 4G ever since hearing that the dual-mode smartphone would be a key element in

Can we get a price check on microwave radios in aisle 5?

As noted in last week's news story on SearchTelecom.com, operators need to be mindful of the mergers and acquisitions likely to come...

Mobile appliance growth changes mobile network planning

You’d think the wild growth in mobile device traffic would mean wireless operators are in the money, as the popular Depression song said. But the stress that traffic is putting on wireless networks is causing depression instead because the money isn’t rolling in. So much content can be...

Five key Evolved Packet Core issues face 4G LTE planners

Yes, we’ve been hammering on Evolved Packet Core technology for 4G wireless networks a lot lately, and why not? Better now than after everyone has deployed LTE and worked out its issues. We’ll have...

LTE is coming! Wait, no it’s not. Oops, sorry, yes it is!

Filed under: Weird Moments in Telecom PR. Just at the tail end of 2009, a few editors here...

Verizon Wireless cracks open door for LTE developers

Mark your calendars. Verizon Wireless will host a webcast on Jan. 20 at 11 a.m. ET to review updated specs, originally released in April, for

Huawei scores second Nordic 4G win; Ericsson says !@#$

How much you want to bet heads are rolling in Stockholm, now that Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei scored a second 4G contract win in Ericsson's turf?

The story hit the wires earlier this...