Tag Archive for 'verizon'
With the Digital TV switch coming relatively soon Verizon has already started making moves in their customers favor to make the transition almost transparent to them. First off, they are phasing out the analog versions of all channels they already offer up digital versions of to customers with their set top boxes.
Verizon got most of C-Block and have admitted they intent to use it for their 4th generation LTE network, which will replace their 3G EV-DO Rev. A network. ATT has said that it will also be using most of the spectrum it acquired for an LTE network, but whereas Verizon is touting a full launch [...]
In Minneapolis/St. Paul where the only things not still frozen are the Internet connections Comcast is making a ruckus by offering up a 50/5 Mbps down/up internet connection. Sure it costs $150 a month, which means not too many people are going to be buying into it, but it’s still interesting, I mean there isn’t [...]
iPass has long been a purveyor of WWAN and WiFi hotspot access, but up until now its been limited to employees of corporations who bought into the service. Today there are two new tidbits regarding iPass, first the addition of a lot of WiFi hotspots, second they are going to start offering their services to [...]
The big winners were AT&T, Verizon, Qualcomm, and Frontier Wireless, Google didn’t win a thing. VZW took most of the popular C-Block, and ATT picked up 227 licenses from the B-Block.
VZW seems to be the biggest spender dropping a few million short of half of what the entire spectrum sold for at 9.63 billion dollars, [...]
They expected to sell the entire band for 10 billion dollars. When bidding had closed, the D block had not sold for what they expected out of it, but the whole band had sold for a grand total of 19.592 billion.
Supposedly this phone is the CDMA version of the Croix, but I swear the UI look almost completely different. The Phone itself looks more or less the same, but the UI has definitely changed.
OQO, the makers of that amazing UMPC the OQO Model 02 now has an online outlet store where you can get refurbed (r0×0rz) models of the UMPC for $300 less than their retail versions. That means you can get the regular Model 02 for $999 or either the Sprint or VZW enabled models for $1198.
Could this be the first completely wireless FM transmitter ever? I think it could be, it used the A2DP Bluetooth profile to transfer music from, well, from wherever its coming from, but presumably your mobile phone.
Well, this week is CES, but there won’t be much, if anything, new here regarding mobile, but by some strange coincidence, the Boy Genius Report was able to snag up 7 “leaked” mobile news stories. Really I’m quite suspicious how much of a “leak” they really were, or if the companies sent them the news [...]
