As carriers migrate from 2G to 4G, how do you need to adapt? This year’s International Consumer Electronics Show hammered home the fact that 2012 is the year of 4G. The speeds possible with 4G are ...

“The operators that have implemented 5G have four technologies on the go at the same time. That's an extremely costly way of ...

It's hard to believe nowadays, but in a simpler time, cellphones really were called "cell phones," not dumbphones, smartphones, feature phones, or superphones. They bulged in your pocket -- if they ...

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Since the very early 1990s, we have become used to ubiquitous digital mobile phone coverage for both voice and data. Such has been their success that they have for many users entirely supplanted the ...

Prepaid wireless player Metro PCS recently became the first wireless carrier with 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) coverage and the move can transform the company. Why? MetroPCS is going for a leapfrog ...

T-Mobile's 2G network shuts down next year, or in 2024, to be more exact, years after other carriers did so. The US carrier interestingly continued to offer a 2G network to its customers even after ...

Mobile network operator EE has kicked off a network upgrade that will see 10MHz of 1,800MHz spectrum previously used to support 2G voice connectivity converted to support 4G mobile broadband, and the ...