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I have the need. The need for speed. Fortunately, the LTE tide is starting to turn. AT&T states that it’s pending acquisition of T-Mobile will allow AT&T to blanket the rural masses with the high-speed, 4G network technology. And wireless operator overall are beginning to roll out LTE  in earnest. As of August 2011, LTE service in the United States is now available in over 100 cities. MetroPCS was the first to launch commercial 4G LTE services in the U.S., with service in Las Vegas and Dallas/Fort Worth.  It has expanded to serving 14 metropolitan areas to date and plans to expand into the remaining MetroPCS cities. Note: TeliaSonera holds the honor of launching the [...]

So Google’s buying Motorola Mobility. For $12.5 billion. In cash. Is that really a surprise? It shouldn’t be. Google has been looking to expand its presence in the mobile space for a while and what better way to do it than with an acquisition that end users can wrap their hands around? The Google-Motorola Mobility deal may have been a preemptive strike, made in anticipation of Microsoft purchasing Nokia’s handset division. Yes, Nokia denied the $19 billion acquisition rumor as “100 percent baseless,” but that was way back in June. Today, who knows? One thing’s for sure: If Microsoft is still interested in Nokia, the price just went up thanks to the 9+ percent jump [...]

Ahhh, do you smell that?! The perfumed scent of prognostication! It’s still wafting in the air from the first half of the year when industry analysts and pundits alike painstakingly predicted our wireless future. Now that we are at the half-way point of 2011, Nexius decided to take a closer look at some of the more compelling predictions from the beginning of the year, evaluating them in light of our experience delivering end-to-end wireless services and software solutions to telecom, technology, and other industries worldwide. So far, it appears that a lot of the analysts got it right and some were a bit off-base, but here’s our take: On network speeds – Expect significant 4G [...]

With CTIA 2011 around the corner – March 22 – 24 in Orlando – the wireless industry is preparing to celebrate mobile life, the theme for the upcoming show. “Our mobile life is growing,” notes the homepage at ctiawireless.com. “With next generation networks on the horizon, the proliferation of applications and the adoption of wireless in enterprise and verticals, the wireless and converged communications marketplace is growing exponentially.” Before we venture off to Orlando for a glimpse of our wireless future, let’s put that exponential growth in perspective. Just how far have we come in the past 10 years? Staggering network speeds. Ten years ago, 2G networks were running at 0.006 MB/second. Today, 4G LTE [...]