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LTE phone shipments to hit record 67 million this year

A record number of smartphones will jump on the LTE bandwagon before the year is over. Eyeing a “breakout year” for 4G technology, Strategy Analytics expects LTE phone shipments to grow 10-fold in 2012, rising to 67 million units from just 6.8 million last year. The push is being driven across the entire industry. “Multiple operators and multiple phone vendors …

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AT&T to FCC over T

AT&T is using T-Mobile’s recent layoffs as an excuse to bash the FCC and its rejection of AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA. On Friday AT&T’s head of legislative affairs Jim Cicconi issued a statement offering a big fat “I told you so,” to the FCC. T-Mobile recently announced it was laying off 1,900 workers in seven call …

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