Tag archive: mobile broadband

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced the company plans to cut some 17,000 jobs—about 23 percent of its global workforce—by the end of 2103 in a move to cut the company's expenses by more than €1 billion (about US$1.35 billion). Although the company hasn't released many details of its plan, it says in addition to job cuts, it will beging to outsource services and undergo a “significant reduction” of suppliers in order to… Read More

The Federal Communications Commission rolled out plans today to provide broadband service to over 18 million Americans that are without hi-speed Internet access. This plan calls for a change in the Universal Service Fund (USF), a government fund originally setup over 14 years ago to provide all Americans with access to phone service. The new proposal would create the Connect America Fund (CAF) and shift approximately $15.5 billion over the new… Read More

If you've seen or heard an ad about a cell phone or wireless plan lately, you may have noticed that a lot of new buzzwords are being thrown around. Words like 4G, LTE, and WiMax seem to have replaced the last set of words we barely understood: 3G, GSM, and CDMA. But what does it all mean? Is it all a bunch of marketing nonsense or are these words you should know and understand? We've got the scoop in our official mobile broadband… Read More

Lightsquared is getting ready to roll out 4G LTE mobile broadband service linked with satellite coverage over sizable portions of the United States. Although LightSquared doesn't plan to sell service directly to consumers, it will offer wholesale mobile broadband services to enterprises and businesses—the company has already inked a deal with Best Buy, and may be in talks with Sprint. However, there's now growing concern that… Read More

The Federal Communications Commission has formally approved a proposal (PDF) that will enable mobile device manufactures to use unused portions of the television broadcasting spectrum—so-called “whitespaces”—for unlicensed mobile broadband operations. The whitespace signal spectrum spaces were freed up as part of the United States' transition from analog to digital television broadcasting, and promise to offer… Read More

The European Commission has laid out the rules and policy proposals it hopes will guide the development of broadband development in Europe for the next decade, calling for basic broadband access to be available by 2013 and 30 Mbps minimum broadband to be available by 2020. The proposal also sets aside portions of the 800 MHz spectrum band—currently being vacated by analog television broadcasters—and dedicates them to mobile… Read More

It's been years coming, but the Federal Communications Commission appears ready to vote on regulations governing the use of spectrum gaps so they can be used for high-bandwidth mobile services, kind of a “super Wi-Fi.” The regulatory framework would approve the use of devices that operate in spectrum space normally reserved for television—so long as those devices don't interfere with broadcast television or technologies… Read More

Frustrated with dropped calls, slow Internet speeds and spotty service on AT&T? Apparently the pearly gates are blocking reception. AT&T CTO John Donovan and concedes that it has some issues, and claims the company will “move Heaven and Earth” in the coming years to meet growing data needs. The exec addressed concerns over AT&T’s network quality at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2010 conference in San Francisco on Monday. According to… Read More

Part of the United States' purpose in transitioning to digital television was to free up the spectrum used by over-the-air analog television broadcasts for use by cool new mobile broadband technologies—and although Clearwire is earnestly building out WiMax and LTE has yet to appear in the U.S. market, already mobile operators and the FCC itself are warning of a looming “spectrum crisis” wherein there won't be enough… Read More

Mobile broadband is something that many users need on a daily basis while others only need it every once and a while. The only recourse for those who don’t need daily access to mobile broadband is often to pay for service that they don’t end up using frequently.

More people are using cell phones and other portable devices for high-speed Web access than are signing up for fixed line subscriptions to the Net, according to U.N. figures published Tuesday. Mobile broadband subscriptions are expected to reach 600 million, leapfrogging the estimated 500 million fixed line subscriptions by the end of this year, the International Telecommunication Union said. “There was a 50 percent increase in mobile… Read More