The last few weeks has been a PR nightmare for AT&T. Customers that are still using grandfathered “unlimited” data plans have seen their allotment before throttling go as low as 1 GB — a slap in the face considering AT&T offers up to 3 GB tiers. Today AT&T announced that a much needed and welcome change is coming. For starters, all customers on 3G/HSPA devices will be able to use up to 3 GB before getting throttled regardless of where they...
Want to see what real 4G looks like? No. Not that pathetic ~10-30 Mbps LTE that is now rolling out, that while fast, isn’t what we were promised just a couple short years ago. At MWC this year Nokia Siemens showed off a demo LTE-Advanced mini-network pumping 1.4 Gbps through the air. Insane! Sadly, the 100 MHz wide channels needed to support such massive bandwidth simply aren’t available out in the real world as of yet. For comparison’s sake, VZW’s...
Bittersweet news, T-Mobile fans. The carrier has announced at MWC that they are abandoning plans to rollout ridiculously fast 84 Mbps 3G HSPA+ service. In stead, the carrier is going to put all of their eggs in the LTE basket. The move isn’t really surprising. While the nation’s 4th largest carrier (by a long shot) has continued to ring higher and higher speeds out of a seemingly outdated cellular technology, LTE has far more leg room at this point. Also, the...
When Nokia announced the 4.3″, LTE packing, U.S.-bound Lumia 900 back in January at CES, non-U.S. residents were a bit saddened the over-sized Windows Phone and it’s impeccable styling weren’t coming to European markets. But wish no more, European readers. Today at MWC Nokia officially announced European availability for their larger screened Lumia 900 smartphone, albeit with one small concession — LTE has been removed in favor of (still fast) 42...
HSPA networks could get an extended stay in relevancy if a new technology debuting at MWC can perform like Nokia Siemens Networks claims. The technology, “Multiflow”, essentially let’s an HSPA+ device talk to two towers simultaneously when on the edge of either towers’ reach. Doing this, according to Nokia Siemens, will allow for up to 2x the data speeds, cuts latency in half and is overall more efficient use of spectrum from either tower in use...
