Verizon Wireless has released Motorola’s latest Android phone, the Droid 4, which functions on Verizon’s 4G LTE network.
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More than 1 million pre-orders for the iPhone 4S were placed in a single day. This number is greater than the previously held record (600 thousand, set by 4S predecessor iPhone 4) and blew the notion that customers wouldn’t be excited by this latest installment of the iPhone completely out of the water.
As the prolonged and very public legal battle between AT&T and its antagonists grows increasingly sharp-tongued, the nation’s 2nd largest telecom operator asked asked a federal court to throw out the various lawsuits on Friday. AT&T’s bid to take over T Mobile and, by default, annex their spectrum, has come under fierce attack from several sources. AT&T seems to be drowning under the volume of of the attacks, as indicated by this most recent of its legal maneuvers.
In an open letter promised to be widely published in the near future, 4G LTE provider LightSquared defended themselves yesterday from their headquarters in Reston, VA. Addressed to “Americans Everywhere”, CEO Sanjiv Ahuja tackles the issues facing the wireless spectrum start-up including allegations that the companies bandwidth interferes with government GPS signals and lack of competitiveness in the wireless spectrum market.
Broadband subscribers in the US comprise of only 13.2% of all subscribers. By contrast, the percentage of HSPA/LTE subscribers in Europe grew by 33% in 2010 and accounted for 20.6% of the total population. By 2016, this amount is expected to triple. America’s compound annual growth rate (CAGR) during this period is predicted to only be 25.8% and reach 58 million subscribers versus the 96 million European subscribers.
