MetroPCS has roped in Samsung to deploy LTE network in various metropolitan cities across United States. Samsung will not only provide MetroPCS with its commercial infrastructure network products, they’ll also have a phone, the SCH-r900 during the 4G roll out in the second half of 2010. We don’t know how Samsung’s LTE device looks […]
Sprint to bring HTC Evo, the first 4G Android phone
HTC’s oft-rumored Supersonic has finally become a reality. At the CTIA yesterday, HTC unwrapped the Sprint exclusive device. The phone will be known as Evo and its major selling point is the integration of the 4G radio, which will allow users to download large chunks of multimedia content at faster speeds than 3G. The […]
Indian telecom operators contemplating to skip 3G, go for 4G
When operators were willing to spend an arm and leg for 3G spectrum, the government was struggling to fix a base price and when government is ready, operators are thinking to give it a miss. An article in Business Line says that cellular operators are contemplating to skip 3G and instead go for 4G […]
Commercial 4G/LTE network goes live in Stockholm (Update: and Oslo)
UPDATE: The network’s live in Oslo, Norway. TeliaSonera has become the first operator in the world to commercially launch the 4G or LTE services in Stockholm, Sweden. It is touted as the largest deployment till date and is 10 times faster than HSDPA, giving about 100Mbps down speed. LTE or Long Term Evolution is […]
Samsung will provide TeliaSonera world’s first to sell 4G/LTE USB modems
TeliaSonera have struck a deal with Samsung that will mostly make the European operator, the first ones to sell 4G/LTE modems. The modem (GT-B3710) is USB-based and will be available commercially in Sweden and Norway in 2010 with a promise of up to 10 times higher speed than available today. The chip inside the […]
LG readies world’s first LTE modem chip for mobile phones
LG’s visionary approach has resulted in a development of mobile phone’s 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) modem chip . The theoretic speeds suggest 100Mbps for downloading and 50Mbps for uploading but a demonstration by LG showed actual download speeds reaching 60Mbps and upload speeds of 20Mbps, which still surpassed the current HSDPA download speed […]