LightSquared plans to start building its terrestrial wireless network soon, despite a regulatory approval process that has sparked vehement opposition from GPS vendors and won't be over until at least the middle of August.
A GPS industry group dismissed mobile startup LightSquared's alternative proposal for an LTE network that would operate on frequencies close to the GPS band, saying the company hasn't presented any clear plan to reduce interference.
LightSquared filed a long-awaited report on possible GPS interference by its planned cellular network to the FCC on Thursday, along with a formal proposal to use a different block of frequencies to prevent those problems.
There's little disagreement about what a test report expected this week will say about LightSquared's proposed LTE network: It knocks out GPS on many devices. There's far less consensus about what causes the problem and what to do about it.
Mobile startup LightSquared has gained another wholesale customer on Tuesday even as more critics joined a group that opposes LightSquared's planned LTE network on the grounds that it will interfere with GPS.
Instead of rejecting AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, U.S. regulators should approve the deal with conditions that require AT&T to build out its mobile broadband network to more rural areas, said one telecom consultant and liberal activist.
Using commercial hardware, telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson demonstrated LTE Advanced to regulators in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Android will rule business, according to enterprise business development manager, Javier Santamarta.
There has been a lot of momentum around 4G LTE networks for high-speed mobile broadband data transfer but that doesn’t mean it will be a supplant existing 3G networks, according to Qualcomm South-East Asia and Pacific president, John Stefanac.
vividwireless has become part of the Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI), joining a band of telco operators from all over the world united to promote TD-LTE as the major standard in the mobile broadband arena.
The invasion has begun. Smartphones and tablets are surging into the enterprise. But are they the ‘evil empire’? How do you cope with so many solutions on so many platforms? ARN went looking for answers.
Samsung Electronics (Korea) executive, Hung Song, has warned the KANZ Broadband Summit that 2G or 3G don't offer enough options for handling future convergence and 4G technology must be adopted for it's broadband capabilities such as faster speeds.
Optus Networks new managing director, Günther Ottendorfer, has plenty of experience in telecommunications field to call on having spent more than 20 years with several European companies, including Deutsche Telekom and max.mobil.
The Philippines, given its archipelagic physical make-up of a sprawling 7107 islands, brings new challenges to Internet deployment that will easily blanket the whole country.
Like it or not LTE is not going away - here are five reasons why.
