Under the agreement, Verizon Wireless leased to Bluegrass Cellular its 700 MHz upper C block wireless spectrum in the Bluegrass Cellular service areas where Verizon Wireless has not constructed a network.
ENGADGET: Bluegrass Cellular starts rolling out 4G LTE network with a bit of help from Verizon
Fixed cellular and wireless-loop technologies are enabling cellular companies to effectively encroach upon the territory that was once the exclusive domain of fixed-line operators.
The four national wireless carriers, plus U.S. Cellular, Leap Wireless' Cricket and C Spire, will sell the S4 in the United States.
The Verizon App Store will begin the process of shutting down for good starting in January 2013, US cellular carrier Verizon Wireless says, with plans to be fully off "all compatible Android and Research in Motion devices" by March 27, 2013.
Bluegrass Cellular 4G customers and Verizon Wireless customers will now have access to LTE-speed data services within Bluegrass Cellular's 4G LTE coverage areas and Bluegrass customers will also have access to Verizon's 4G LTE network throughout the United States.
ENGADGET: Bluegrass Cellular starts rolling out 4G LTE network with a bit of help from Verizon
Observers were quick to call this early coverage optimistic but Hagan contends that Boingo will benefit from major trends in the wireless, cellular and consumer electronics industries.
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During his demonstration, Gates showed how people who book flights using the Expedia online travel service will automatically receive updated flight and weather information cellular phones enabled with wireless applications protocol.
Using the leased spectrum, Bluegrass Cellular constructed and operates a 4G LTE network in central Kentucky serving Bluegrass Cellular customers, Verizon Wireless customers and customers of other LTE in Rural America participants.
ENGADGET: Bluegrass Cellular starts rolling out 4G LTE network with a bit of help from Verizon
In 2010, Bluegrass Cellular announced an agreementwith Verizon Wireless to participate in the LTE in Rural America program.
ENGADGET: Bluegrass Cellular starts rolling out 4G LTE network with a bit of help from Verizon
The phone won't work with carriers that use a different cellular technology, including Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp.
Customers pay Traq-wireless to compile cellular bills into a spreadsheet-like report.
In addition, Bluegrass Cellular customers have access to Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE network throughout the United States.
ENGADGET: Bluegrass Cellular starts rolling out 4G LTE network with a bit of help from Verizon
Bluegrass Cellular, a pioneer in the wireless industry in Kentucky, announced today the launch of the first phase of its 4G LTE network as part of the Verizon Wireless LTE in Rural America (LRA) program.
ENGADGET: Bluegrass Cellular starts rolling out 4G LTE network with a bit of help from Verizon
It also supports a wide range of multiplayer gaming, so kids can play against friends locally via short-range Bluetooth wireless, or over the cellular network.
For the surviving ATT Long Distance business to reenter the wireless arena, it bought McCaw Cellular in 1994.
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Since at least last September there have been rumors about whether Apple has tapped wireless chipset manufacturer Qualcomm to power cellular baseband in next generation of Apple iOS devices, namely iPhone 5 and iPad 2.
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Sprint will also work with the cable operators to develop new wireless hardware that uses both cable and cellular services.
Lifeline is expanding as a sluggish economy and rising cellular costs leave millions unable to pay for traditional wireless services.
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Cellular carriers have been touting the vision of a wireless Web for a few years, dreaming of high-speed, always-on, packet-based connections that deliver everything from music to traffic warnings and restaurant ratings.
The chip giant says technology trends such as the upgrade to faster, 4G cellular networks and the move to tiered pricing for wireless data have made pico projector phones newly relevant.
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Wireless messaging is going through a growth spurt in the U.S. The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, a trade group, estimates that, in December, U.S. wireless carriers processed more than 1 billion messages, about four times as many as were sent in December 2001.
Tired, perhaps, of juggling mainstream cellular carriers, RadioShack may be launching its own wireless branding.
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It also has a majority share in Verizon Wireless , the nation's number two cellular provider, and a particularly profitable growth business.
At 20 he took over the remains of his deceased father's lone cable-television outpost in Centralia, Wash. and turned it into a national cellular network, fueled with massive debt and loans from wireless equipment makers.
Implementation of the original law was scuttled after the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (the lobbying arm of the wireless industry) sued the city.
"Bluegrass Cellular made the decision two years ago to partner with Verizon Wireless as the fastest approach to provide 4G LTE to our customers both locally and nationwide, " said Smith.
ENGADGET: Bluegrass Cellular starts rolling out 4G LTE network with a bit of help from Verizon
In a standard wireless network--such as those used by cellular vendors like Sprint PCS (nyse: FON - news - people )--a central antenna or base station always acts as middleman in any communication.
With improvements in cellular technologies driven in part by the explosive adoption of smartphones, wireless broadband is expanding even faster than wired.
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The joint endorsement of exempting wireless services from net neutrality is a significant victory for cellular broadband providers such as Verizon, which have said that excessive regulation of those services would stifle their investments.
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So Samsung and LG both announced deals with a company called Kineto Wireless Inc. that's developing a hybrid wireless technology that can seamlessly pass a call from a cellular network to a WiFi network without interrupting the call.
ENGADGET: Samsung, LG license technology to seamlessly pass calls from cellular to WiFi
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