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 »
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 »
SK Telecom is starting the new year with a new kind of 4G network – or at least a network built from the pieces of its older LTE systems. This week,… Read more »
Ericsson has jumped on the 5G marketing bandwagon, touting a network lab test of a 5 Gbps wireless connection. It’s an impressive feat, but we’re still not any closer to figuring… 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 »
A few operators have taken their first tentative steps into LTE-Advanced, but the technology hasn’t yet taken root. The reason? All of the technical and political pieces aren’t yet in place,… Read more »
While the data paints a good picture of the state of the current 4G device base, newer souped-up networks are delivering faster absolute speeds. Read more »
The HTC One will be the first U.S. smartphone to connect to two separate LTE networks simultaneously, resulting in big boosts in speed. The first carrier we’ll see use that technology… Read more »
AT&T is using a new LTE-Advanced technique called carrier aggregation, which splices two 4G transmissions together to create a fatter mobile broadband pipe. The Galaxy S5 will be one of the… Read more »
When U.S. operators start bonding together their LTE networks later this year, the Galaxy S5 will be one of the first devices in the market that can tap into their increased… Read more »