Sprint appears ready to invest in its long-delayed Spark network rollout, but it’s getting some help from the companies that will be providing the equipment. Nokia, Samsung and Alcatel-Lucent are supplying a combined… Read more »
Sprint’s Spark network in Chicago has sprouted a lot more antennas. Sprint is testing a new technology called 8T8R that promises to make Sprint’s network more resilient and create more capacity… Read more »
NTT Docomo is performing groundbreaking new trials of new wireless technologies that could boost capacity to 10 Gbps on future mobile networks. It’s not 5G, but it could become part of… Read more »
Sprint has finally tapped into the spectrum treasure trove that has sat dormant for so long in Clearwire. It’s new LTE network is fast, but more importantly it has enormous amounts… Read more »
Huawei CEO Ken Hu isn’t just promising to deliver a technology that’s nowhere defined. He’s reducing network innovation down to a question of mere speed. The mobile industry should have much… Read more »
Roughly half a dozen new mobile operating systems will come to market over the next 6 to 12 months. Many of these look to be more sophisticated than the older ones… Read more »
A small army of hardware manufacturers are using CES to launch inexpensive Android tablets. But the low end of the tablet market is already a very crowded space. Read more »
The growth in signaling traffic not only is an indicator of success but also shows that mobile data has come of age, not just as the mobile extension of the fixed… Read more »
What happens when infrastructure startups disappear? Innovation doesn’t stop, but the industry definitely loses a critical font of ideas that challenge the big vendor mentality and established standards. Services innovation is… Read more »