But Qualcomm is the company making most of the money out of the shift to high-speed mobile networks.
If all goes as planned, this will allow Qualcomm to dominate the next phase of high-speed mobile communications too.
The U.S. leads the world in high-speed mobile broadband, with almost twice the number of users of second-place Japan.
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To do this we've built the UK's biggest high-speed mobile broadband network.
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Carriers are looking to deploy picocells in dense urban hot spot areas to provide high-speed mobile data service where it is most needed.
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But growing demand for high-speed mobile devices and equipment bodes well for companies such as Samsung, a maker of 4G LTE smartphones, currently the fastest technology.
The plan is to create a hub of super-fast cities with broadband speeds of between 80 to 100Mbps (megabits per second) and city-wide high-speed mobile connectivity.
Mr. Antonucci said he turns off Verizon Wireless's 4G LTE connection while in his office at a casting agency, though he uses the high-speed mobile network to watch basketball games at home.
At the event, Huawei also underscored its commitment to increase access to high-speed mobile experiences for more people around the world through strengthening their LTE product portfolio which includes many first-in-class LTE products such as the Huawei B593, the world's first LTE TDD wireless broadband router and the Huawei E398, the world's first triple-mode LTE modem.
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The first 3G mobile services were introduced in 2012, allowing high-speed internet access through mobile phones.
All the excitement here in Japan about high-speed, third generation mobile phones was followed by service delays, glitchy phones and big disappointment.
Motorola says it is uniquely positioned to smooth the transition between home, work, automotive and mobile environments, providing high-speed internet access on trains, for example, e-mail in cars, video on phones, or mobile-phone coverage on planes.
The cellular telecommunications industry is entering a period of transition from aging, analog-era transmission technology to high-speed "third-generation" (3G) mobile networks.
From downloading files to streaming video or surfing the latest social networking sites, T-Mobile's faster network provides a richer-than-ever mobile data experience, with anytime high-speed access to the data and information customers need and desire.
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T-Mobile's high-speed 4G network continues to expand and is now available in more than 190 markets, reaching more than 200 million people nationwide.
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That will be especially useful over the next few years, with the arrival of third-generation mobile networks able to carry large amounts of data and provide high-speed Internet access.
Today T-Mobile's 3G high-speed data network is available in more than 273 U.S. cities covering more than 206 million people.
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The high-speed data rollout will enable richer, faster mobile services, such as mobile video, photo sharing and Web browsing, to its users throughout the United States.
Moving forward the company aims to achieve further brand acceptability among all target segments through a broader offering of cutting-edge handsets that combine mobile phone functionality with enriched content and smart device capabilities for greater high-speed voice and data capacity.
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This comes as the carriers are rolling out high-speed 4G networks, and U.S. mobile users are developing a strong taste for data-intensive services like streaming media.
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It includes supporting cutting-edge tools they need, from a high-speed public safety broadband network to a new generation of mobile apps.
The number of users with mobile devices is expected to climb to 5.2 billion in 2017 from 4.3 billion in 2012 and traffic across high-speed 4G networks will grow 40-fold during that time, according to a five-year forecast for mobile traffic data compiled by Cisco Systems and released today.
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T-Mobile also gave an update on its high-speed LTE network, which it has been promising for some time.
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While a high-speed wireless connection is a nice plus for users of typical mobile phones, it promises to do wonders for widescreen iPhones, which combine the ability to play movies and surf the Web with features found on more traditional mobile phones, like the ability to send text messages.
Verizon smartphones with a high-speed 4G LTE data plan can stream the games through the NFL Mobile app for free, a spokeswoman for the carrier said.
Indeed, counting mobile broadband, more Americans already have access to high-speed Internet services than have complete plumbing.
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Once commercialized, 5G mobile communications technology will be capable of ultra-high-speed data transmission up to several hundred times faster than even the 4G LTE-Advanced technology due for launch later this year.
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The rapid speed of mobile graphics improvements will ensure that the next round of high-end phones easily outsrips the iPhone 5.
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