At Mobile World Congress, Broadcom released a new chipset designed to bring Wi-Fi’s speediest technology, 802.11ac, into smartphones. What makes this particular chipset stand out is that it’s able to support… Read more »
SK Telecom just last month amped up its LTE network in Seoul to support blistering speeds of 300 Mbps, but the carrier is already tinkering with LTE-Advanced technologies that could double… Read more »
Wireless startup Mimosa has been plugging Wi-Fi into a lot of networking products lately, but now it’s offering up its first consumer-facing product: A Wi-Fi router you actually install in your… Read more »
5G research is gaining momentum worldwide, and it will require new spectrum. Enter the FCC. Chairman Tom Wheeler wants to start investigating the future cellular technology from a regulatory standpoint. Read more »
Broadcom’s newest mobile device Wi-Fi chip boasts 650 Mbps in speeds. While that’s not exactly gigabit speeds, it’s a lot closer to getting our smartphones to match our network speeds. Read more »
Asus promised to deliver the first next-generation 802.11ac router in January but nothing appeared — until now. The new device, sporting multi-user MIMO technology, is now at Best Buy. But at… Read more »
In this part of our special report on reinventing the internet, a look at how the wireless networks of the future should evolve to handle a world in which mobile computers… Read more »
T-Mobile is bucking the trend of focusing single-mindedly on faster networks. Using a new antenna technology, it’s building better, more consistent mobile data networks. T-Mobile will roll out the new technology… Read more »
Vivint has found another use of 802.11ac. Instead of putting it in customers’ homes to connect their laptops and smartphones to the home network, it’s putting it on rooftops as their… Read more »
Asus claims its new router is the first with Wave 2 802.11ac chip developed by gigabit wireless specialist Quantenna. The access point boosts potential Wi-Fi capacity to 1.7 Gbps and creates… Read more »