So what’s the fun in having a great device running a slow network? Well, there is no fun at all according to this new T-Mobile advertisement taking on both Verizon and AT&T. I can’t say how happy I am that T-Mobile is extending the fight beyond AT&T and going after the real competition, Verizon. You won’t find this ad on tv for another week, so feel free … [read full article]
If you have been on the Internet at all over the past four days you probably know about the latest announcement. Verizon held a rather exclusive press conference today to announce their partnership with Apple, allowing them to carry a CDMA version of the iPhone. Guess what? The sky hasn’t turned red, the earth hasn’t opened up, pigs aren’t flying and, most of … [read full article]
Verizon is showing its usual arrogance over its network via an interview with CTO Tony Melone from Cnet. While I’ll be the first to admit, Verizon really outshines the other carriers, including our Magenta at CES, hands down that doesn’t mean they have the strongest offering of all. With that in mind, we won’t deny that they came out swinging with their selection of LTE offerings but … [read full article]
Hoping to not get lost in today’s Nexus S news cycle is a report by analyst Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros who believes that Verizon will pay to keep the iPhone away from Sprint and T-Mobile. I believe it’s safe to say that analyst opinions like this are often steeped … [read full article]
In the midst of yesterdays Verizon LTE announcement, a little ego showed on behalf of Verizon as they proclaimed themselves responsible for the success of Android. “Android really took off when Verizon got involved” is the direct quote from Verizon CTO Tony Melone and comes off pretty matter of fact. T-Mobile was the first carrier to launch Android in the … [read full article]
With the 4G Wars heating up after today’s announcement of Verizon’s new LTE network bringing impressive speeds to the table, T-Mobile shares its reaction to the announcement. T-Mobile welcomes Verizon to the “4G world”, claiming that T-Mobile subscribers have been enjoying “America’s Largest 4G Network” for a while now and love it. Magenta also states that it is still on track to … [read full article]
Following Verizon’s LTE announcement this morning, it’s really quite clear that the battle for the “4G” speed war has begun. Early tests from bloggers and journalists testing the Verizon network are coming back with very impressive results, although they all admit the results are on a network with almost zero load on it. Up until this point however, T-Mobile has … [read full article]
If Sprint was hoping to steer the conversation back in their direction with this, the latest entrance in the “4G” argument, they should have tried harder. This video, which offers up a mini-tutorial on how Sprint 4G works as well as some digs at the competition, effectively does neither very well. All I learned from this video is that Sprint apparently has a … [read full article]
T-Mobile has been saying that its 4G HSPA+ network will boost speeds across the board regardless of whether or not the phone is capable of the full speed. So Wireless testing firm Root Metrics decided to put that to the test and found that the speed boost indeed was noticeable across the … [read full article]
Well, what do we have here? It’s another entry into the “4G” war by big red Verizon herself. The above image, via Twitter, shows that Verizon is ready to tackle the 4G issue and formally enter the 4G war. This time the ad hits AT&T where … [read full article]
