Acting in the same roles at Ascend, they supplied Internet access-devices to data carriers such as PSINet and Uunet, now part of MCI Worldcom, before most people had heard of the Web.
Acting in the same roles at Ascend, they supplied Internet access devices to data carriers such as PSINet and Uunet, now part of MCI WorldCom, before most people had heard of the web.
The company plans to start publishing city reports with data from these carriers by the end of this year.
Plus, faster Web surfing is expected to prompt consumers to use more mobile data, giving carriers' revenue a boost.
Now, you'll find a better solution from Mosaik Solutions, which has released an Android app that provides data from the carriers themselves.
The bonus is that these apps are basically free to use because they piggyback on the data plans that carriers require smartphone users to purchase anyway.
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It calculated rates using data for six large carriers ( Allstate, Farmers, GEICO, Nationwide, Progressive and State Farm).
Before the smartphone boom, many carriers sold data access on an unlimited basis, making it hard for them to profit.
In the past, many net service providers have escaped censure because they simply acted as carriers of data and did not edit the information they passed on.
American contested in a Fort Worth court in April that Travelport presents a civil antitrust threat to airlines that prefer to directly send its flight information to websites through its own technology, rather than go through a GDS, which aggregates flight data from many air carriers in exchange for regular fees from the airlines.
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Data prices have skyrocketed in recent years, especially as more carriers move away from unlimited data models in favor of tiered data cap pricing packages.
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These systems allow carriers to move data up to 1, 600 kilometers before the signals must be goosed up again.
To address the crush, carriers are offloading data traffic from dense urban areas onto Wi-Fi networks, while also seeking out more spectrum.
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Growth in smartphones and tablets along with improved wireless data speeds has stimulated data usage, and wireless carriers have been investing in their infrastructure to address this need.
Linking pico phones to 4G and video transforms pico phones into a sales tool for carriers to sell data packages to consumers or to nudge people who already pay for data to purchase higher-capacity plans.
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The airlines want Europe to adopt a system for dealing with volcanic-ash eruptions similar to that in America, where the Federal Aviation Authority gives carriers information and data but lets them make their own risk assessments.
As the content owners were promoting legal protection for digital locks in the 1990s, the ISPs were supporting legal frameworks that treated them as the equivalent of common carriers that transferred data across their networks without regard for the content itself.
Much of mobile data spending is still on simple features like text messaging, but carriers are banking on a host of data services for future growth.
Carriers are looking to data to drive sales growth and offset declining voice revenue.
As can be seen from the Chinese telecom data released each month, the carriers are now adding more 3G subscribers than 2G.
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It will be sold by mobile carriers along with a data plan.
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These are paid because RIM's BlackBerry email service, which routes messages through its own data centers, takes pressure off carriers' overloaded wireless networks.
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As can be seen from the Chinese telecom data released each month, the carriers are now adding more number of 3G subscribers than 2G.
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Wireless carriers have released little data this week to allow broader conclusions to be drawn of how the networks are holding up in various locations.
Carriers will resell the data in healthy doses of 1GB or larger, and Avanti is adamant that there won't be any nasty throttling surprises waiting in store.
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As wireless customers spend less money on plain-vanilla cellphone voice calls, carriers are betting that data and entertainment services like text messaging, over-the-air music stores, streaming video and mobile Web browsing will lead growth.
Aircell's Gogo in-flight internet system, in use on several US carriers, offers only data connections now, but there have been reports of passengers bypassing blocks and using Gogo to conduct VOIP calls while in flight.
As I wrote last year, perhaps the most important development in the U.S. mobile landscape in 2011 was that all but one of the major carriers have abandoned unlimited data plans in favor of tiered service.
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The reason why smartphones are subsidized by carriers in return for long-term contracts is that smartphone users are widely recognized as heavy data users and bring a higher life-time value to carriers.
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By 1980 carriers used fiber to carry data and voice calls as optical signals in the form of photons.
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