AT&T and T-Mobile: Yes, No and 1XRTT - 4GWE

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ITEXPO West begins in: 96 Days. REGISTER NOW!   Featured Articles » Industry Players Back AT&T in Proposed Deal to Acquire T-Mobile USA » Sprint Introduces 3D Smartphone and 4G Tablet » Overlaying 3G and 4G to Improve Enterprise Network Bandwidth, Reliability » 40G and 100G Technologies Will See Accelerated Growth by 2015   Sponsored By: WEBINAR: Enabling Off the Shelf Packet Acceleration with a Software Edge Thursday, June 9, 2011 TIME: 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT Topics explored include: Table stakes to enter race reliability, performance, and intelligence The multicore paradigm shift for un-match levels of performance and scalability New software and hardware alliances for off-the-shelf time to market advantage Emerging service opportunities to increase ARPU   Top Stories » Comcast, Clearwire and Sprint Expand Philadelphia Metro 4G Mobile Broadband Network » Clearwire and its Partners Expand Pittsburgh Metro 4G Network » ABI Research: LTE Subscriptions Racing Ahead of Expectations » Telkonet Supports ZigBee Standards, Accelerates Integration of Technology   From The Expert Corner June 08, 2011 AT&T and T-Mobile: Yes, No and 1XRTT By Carl Ford Partner, Crossfire Media “Is the merger between AT&T (News - Alert) & T-Mobile going to happen?” The opposition has been pretty active last week with Sprint warning about the impact of competition in the network. Many other service providers have also stated their objections, but not Verizon (News - Alert) Wireless. Strangely, it may be that Sprint and Verizon Wireless are going to be the beneficiary of the merger before AT&T and T-Mobile can find synergies. I say this because there are several GSM users that want to have a competitive market. The answer for some customers is to go back to CDMA... Read More   From The Blogs CradlePoint Wireless N 4G CTR35 Impresses By: Rich Tehrani CEO, TMCnet CTO and founder of CradlePoint Gary Oliverio just sent me the company's CTR35 - wireless N portable router allowing you to plug in a USB dongle and light up a room with WiFi - where up to 16 devices can share a wireless broadband connection. And the great news is this gadget can now share a 4G connection. I tested it with a Verizon 3G EVDO card and was able to achieve average download speeds of 1.9 Mbps downloads and 500 kbps uploads which is respectable considering I did the tests from TMC's HQ where 3G coverage isn't generally super-strong... Read More    Featured Videos Regulatory 2.0 - Washington DC, April 12th, 2011    Featured Resources » Broadband Wireless Backhaul: Systems, Trends, Applications & Solutions » Connect and Empower Mobile Salespeople » Policy Control and Mobile Video: Options for Managing Growth   Featured Channels » 4G Wireless Evolution » M2M Evolution » Mobile Unified Communications   4g-wirelessevolution.tmcnet.com is Your Source for the Latest WiMax News   and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of IP Communications professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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