The carrier also is spending billions of dollars to build out a next-generation broadband network, using a technology called LTE, that can handle more wireless data traffic.

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And if you've ever wanted to seriously used a Wi-Fi network to make voice telephone calls using Voice Over Internet Protocol technology (VOIP), your network will need a feature called QOS or Quality Of Service.

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The combined firm will be able to use this prime wireless real estate to build a 4G network, perhaps using Flarion's technology or WiMax, an emerging wireless-broadband standard.

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He was arrested in 2011 and charged in a scheme in which he allegedly logged into the computer network at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and using it to download millions of academic journal articles from a database called JSTOR, owned by a nonprofit group.

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He told Sorenson about a colleague there named Michael Holloway who had notions of using Internet Protocol technology to build a powerful, low-cost telecommunications network.

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In the mobile communications network, this will be done using the state-of-the-art technology LTE.

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Clearwire, which uses the 4G technology for its wireless network, for sometime now has been saying that it might eventually also add service using a rival technology called LTE.

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Using Qualcomm StreamBoost technology, the router intelligently prioritizes Internet bandwidth to each application and device on a home network for leading edge performance and network optimization.

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