Verizon during the conference call discussing its latest quarterly results inadvertently spoiled plans to launch a dual-mode iPhone 5. The company mentioned that its next Apple product would be a “global device,” or one capable of using both Verizon’s CDMA network and GSM networks while roaming abroad. Current iPhone 4s on the network are CDMA-only. […]
HTC today announced that the new HTC Merge smartphone will be made available through multiple North American carriers beginning in spring 2011. The HTC Merge is HTC’s first Android-based CDMA world phone. The 3G HTC Merge has a full QWERTY slide-out keyboard, 3.8-inch touch-screen display and a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and flash. The […]
Jobs heard the people at press conferences and events. The iPhone will be coming to Verizon network beginning on Thursday, February 10 “Verizon Wireless customers have told us they can’t wait to get their hands on iPhone 4, and we think they are going to love it,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer Existing […]
Sprint yesterday unveiled a major new plan to upgrade its network and simplify it at the same time. Nicknamed Network Vision, it will replace the separate sites for 3G and 4G with single, multi-mode sites that provide CDMA, EVDO and WiMAX from a single point. The switch should reduce the amount of extra cell sites […]
In an interview with FierceWireless Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Sprint will gradually phase out its iDEN network. Sprint acquired iDEN as part of its purchase of Nextel back in 2004. As customers sign up for Sprint’s CDMA network rather than iDEN, the closure of the latter will free up the 800MHz iDEN frequency. Eventually, […]
First 4G in the USA as WiMAX and now its LTE’s turn to be the star of 4G in sin city. Samsung and MetroPCS today announced the commercial launch of the world’s first 4G LTE-enabled, multi-mode, CDMA handset, the Samsung Craft (SCH-r900). Samsung Mobile also supplied the LTE infrastructure for MetroPCS’ commercial […]
Now it’s clear why Verizon won’t be carrying any Windows Phone 7 devices when they’re launched for the holidays – Microsoft’s mobile OS isn’t ready for CDMA phones, just GSM. That leaves just AT&T and T-Mobile, for this year’s launch in the US. “We had to make some trade-offs,” Greg Sullivan, senior product manager for […]
Verizon today announced that it will be carrying the BlackBerry Curve 3G. The 9330 variant has the required switch to CDMA calling and EVDO-based 3G data, and is only lightly customized for Verizon’s network beyond the switch from GSM. It ships with the option of using VZ Navigator with GPS and comes in both the […]
Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola, Inc. today jointly announced that the companies have entered into an agreement under which Nokia Siemens Networks will acquire the majority of Motorola’s wireless network infrastructure assets for USD 1.2 billion in cash. The companies expect to complete closing activities by the end of 2010, subject to customary closing conditions […]
In a newly released report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for information about the networking and telecommunications industries, mobile infrastructure market revenues are forecast to grow over the next 5 years and reach $42 billion in 2014, but will still be shy of the record revenues of over $43 billion reached in 2008. “We […]
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