23 posts and columns on mobile broadband

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Samsung Claims 5G Mobile Breakthrough

in Mobile on May 13 at 4:30 am PT

Samsung Electronics said Monday it has made a breakthrough in developing mobile technology for fifth-generation networks, though it expects it will take years until the service is brought online for subscribers.

FreedomPop Begins Shift to Sprint Network With 3G/4G Hotspot

in Mobile on April 24 at 6:00 am PT

FreedomPop plans to start offering the Overdrive Pro hotspot, which works on both WiMax and Sprint’s 3G network.

Mobile Data Revenue in U.S. and U.K. to Surpass Voice Revenue by 2014

in Mobile on February 25 at 8:01 am PT

A surge in mobile broadband connections is spiking mobile data revenue.
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FreedomPop Raises a Few More Million to Further Disrupt Mobile Broadband

in Mobile on February 7 at 6:00 am PT

It will use the added $4 million to continue to come up with new ways to turn the mobile broadband market on its head, CEO Stephen Stokols tells AllThingsD.
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Sprint Grows LTE Lineup With Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, LG Smartphones

in Product News on October 9, 2012 at 10:25 am PT

Sprint expands its 4G LTE device family with new smartphones and its first LTE tablet.
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NetZero Offering Mobile Broadband Customers Data to Share With Friends

in Mobile on October 9, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

The company best-known for cheap dial-up service in the late 1990s hopes to make a new name for itself by providing mobile data service.
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FCC to Measure Mobile Broadband Performance

in Mobile on September 6, 2012 at 4:11 am PT

Finally getting around to it, eh?
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Bill Gates Part of $12 Million Round for Satellite Mobile Broadband Start-Up

in Mobile on August 21, 2012 at 10:27 am PT

Kymeta is a spinout from Intellectual Ventures, the Nathan Myhrvold-run company best known for collecting patents.
A prototype of a Kymeta portable hotspot, about the size of a laptop computer.

Crunching the Numbers on Verizon’s and AT&T’s Shared-Data Plans

in Mobile on July 18, 2012 at 12:35 pm PT

AT&T and Verizon both offer shared data plans now. But which is the better deal?
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Dell Boosts Battery Life in Newest Ultrabook, the XPS 14

in Product News on June 26, 2012 at 12:01 am PT

Dell’s successor to its XPS 13 Ultrabook boasts some premium features and a longer-lasting battery.
Dell XPS 14 Ultrabook

Lenovo Starts Selling Own Brand of Mobile Broadband Service

in Mobile, June 10, 2012 at 9:00 pm PT

T-Mobile Expands No-Contract Mobile Broadband Plans

Best Buy Killing Connect, Its Mobile Broadband Service, Leaving 11,000 Customers up for Grabs

in Mobile, April 26, 2012 at 11:46 am PT

T-Mobile Set to Receive AT&T Airwaves

in Mobile, April 25, 2012 at 12:48 pm PT

How Skype’s Co-Founder Hopes to Make Money Giving Away Mobile Broadband

in Mobile, March 22, 2012 at 5:00 am PT

AT&T Plan Would Let App Makers Pay for Subscribers’ Data Use

in Mobile, February 27, 2012 at 10:06 am PT

T-Mobile or Not, AT&T Sees Wireless Growth Ahead

in Mobile, January 26, 2012 at 7:10 am PT

FCC Asks AT&T for Pricing, Spectrum Data

in Mobile, May 27, 2011 at 3:40 pm PT

San Francisco Gets a Few More Bars (Of Signal Strength)

in Mobile, December 28, 2010 at 9:45 am PT

AT&T Races to Tout Speed-Test Results

AT&T Activates 3.1 Million iPhones in Q4

in Mobile, January 28, 2010 at 6:28 am PT

That 48 Percent Obviously Doesn’t Include iPhone Users

in News, June 26, 2009 at 5:18 pm PT