Faster Forward Archive: Telecom
Will Sprint spell '4G' as 'LTE'? And will T-Mobile help with that rewrite?
print has some decisions to make this year.
First among them: The Overland Park, Kan., carrier needs to choose how it will employ the spectrum freed up by its planned retirement of its Nextel service. Should it stick with its current network architecture or use those frequencies to launch a new 4G service built on the LTE standard endorsed by competitors AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile?
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Rob Pegoraro
| March 9, 2011; 10:35 AM ET |
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Mobile, Sprint, T-Mobile, Telecom, Verizon
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IPv4 addresses running out. Don't panic.
The Internet's numbers are almost up. But that's okay; we can make new ones. That's the short version of an issue that goes by the technical name of "IPv4 exhaustion". The current, fourth version of Internet Protocol addressing--the numerical identifiers that make each device on the Internet visible to every...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 8, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Standards, Telecom
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Answers to your questions about the Verizon iPhone
As you may have heard, Verizon and Apple will start selling a version of the iPhone 4 for that carrier later this week. That seems like a reasonably straightforward bit of news, but there's always room for confusion in the telecom universe. Here are my attempts to answer some of...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 7, 2011; 10:34 AM ET |
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Apple, Mobile, Telecom
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Verizon stops taking iPhone pre-orders after setting unspecified 'record'
Verizon stopped taking pre-orders for its version of the iPhone 4 at 8:10 last night--and it clocked so many that it hasn't finished counting them. That's one way to read this morning's press release, in which the carrier uses a variety of phrases--"record sales," "the most successful first day sales...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 4, 2011; 9:16 AM ET |
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Mobile, Telecom, The business we have chosen
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Google Voice wireless-number porting now (really) available
The can-your-wireless-carrier option that made a tantalizing appearance last week is now a reality: You can move an existing mobile number to Google Voice. A blog post from Google earlier Tuesday announced the change and noted that it costs $20 and should take about 24 hours. But it glossed over...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 25, 2011; 2:01 PM ET |
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Mobile, Telecom
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Verizon sues to stop net-neutrality rules it suggested
My first reaction to yesterday's news that Verizon is suing the Federal Communications Commission to overturn its pending, half-hearted net-neutrality rules was one of a Verizon customer. To wit: Okay, so you're going to spend some of my money to fight a minimal set of regulations written to stop you...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 21, 2011; 8:13 AM ET |
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Net Neutrality, Policy and politics, Telecom
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