AT&T has made its fastest tier of broadband service, which tops out at 24 megabits per second, available throughout its U-verse territory, the company said Monday. In December, AT&T started offering the 24Mbps download and 3Mbps upload service available in three markets, Austin, San Antonio, and St. Louis. The service, which costs $65 a month …
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Sprint Nextel is using Wi-Fi to sell its 4G WiMax wireless broadband service. The nation’s third largest wireless carrier has at least a year-and-a-half head start over its closest competitor, Verizon Wireless, when it comes to 4G. But to capitalize on that lead, the company has to win as many subscribers for its service as quickly as it can. Verizon …
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Houston is the latest city to get Clearwire’s 4G WiMax service, the company announced Monday. Both Clearwire and its partner, Sprint Nextel, will be offering 4G wireless service in Houston. Clearwire, which is backed by Sprint, cable giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable, as well as Intel and Google, has been building its nationwide 4G wireless network for over a …
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LAS VEGAS- Oscar-winning director James Cameron says the key to combating digital piracy in the movie industry is to use technology to create an experience that is unmatched anywhere other than the theater. While “Avatar,” Cameron’s blockbuster 3D-film, has made more money than any other movie in history topping $2.6 billion at the box office worldwide, it is also the …
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LAS VEGAS–First it was e-readers and Netbooks. Now AT&T wants to connect dog collars and pill caps to its wireless network. AT&T’s Glenn Lurie, who heads up the company’s emerging devices business, sees a world in which any device can be connected over AT&T’s wireless network. And for almost two years, he has been working to get as many devices …
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LAS VEGAS–Sprint Nextel and Clearwire executives admitted Wednesday that they could follow the rest of the worldwide wireless network and adopt LTE for future network upgrades. Spring Nextel CEO Dan Hesse and Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow sat down separately and talked to CTIA CEO Steve Largent during the keynote session on the second day of the CTIA trade show here. …
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LAS VEGAS–AT&T execs said there is big opportunity in selling mid-range phones to consumers who think smartphones are too expensive and too complicated. Executives talked about this new cell phone category they call “quick messaging devices” on Wednesday at an event at the CTIA tradeshow here. What is a quick-messaging phone? Think the LG Neon and Samsung Propel. These are …
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LAS VEGAS–AT&T executives are pushing the government to allocate more spectrum for wireless broadband and back off on regulation in order to keep the mobile broadband growth engine revving. Ralph de la Vega, head of AT&T Mobility and the new chairman of CTIA, and Randall Stephenson, the CEO of AT&T, each spoke at the CTIA 2010 wireless trade show here …
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LAS VEGAS – In the next few years it will be difficult to buy a new smartphone that does not have built-in Wi-Fi for speedy Net access, according to a report that ABI Research and the Wi-Fi Alliance published Tuesday. Today, about half the smartphones sold have Wi-Fi. By 2014, the forecast goes, about 90 percent of smartphones will offer …
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LAS VEGAS–T-Mobile USA said it will soon have bragging rights as the nation’s fastest 3G network. But will the claim to fame help the company attract new customers? Executives at the CTIA trade show here on Tuesday outlined the company’s network upgrade plans to a technology called HSPA+ that will effectively triple its network download speeds on its 3G wireless …
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