"We're proud to have been the first to offer the fastest wireless network technology in the world to our customers, " says John Boynton, Rogers Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.
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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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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.
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.
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Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people ), which owns 90 Mhz as part of its investment in WiMax, an advanced wireless data technology, is struggling to build out its network and doesn't plan to bid.
Since the previous sentence probably only made sense to about four of our readers out there, we'll break it down for you: EV-DO is the same 3G wireless technology being used by Verizon for the next-generation network they're currently building, and has average download speeds of around 500 Kbps.
If you're Clearwire or Sprint right now, the last thing you want to hear is one of the world's major suppliers of wireless infrastructure badmouthing the very technology that underpins your next-gen network -- so we imagine there's some groaning in the hallways and boardrooms of the world's WiMAX carriers today.
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The system is also made future proof by a patent-pending capability to swap out the wireless card should hardware technology change or if the user chooses a different network infrastructure in the future.
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The wireless chip and technology vendor is betting that if it constructs a nationwide network to stream television over cell phones, cellular carriers will sign on and consumers will clamor for the service.
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.
Dick Lynch, chief technology officer of Verizon Wireless, explains that no wide-area wireless network can afford to build out wide-area data capacity to handle bursts of demand for wireless data that change from airport gate to gate every 30 minutes or so.
The trade group for wireless networking technology is about to put an end to its members' favorite hobby, network joyriding.
WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a high capacity IP-based technology that can be deployed as a new network or as an overlay to existing 2G and 3G wireless technologies.
The NOMAD 15 also delivers best-in-class network connectivity with Killer Networks "DoubleShot" technology, the combination of their Killer E2200 LAN and 1202 Wireless to game with less lag and make it quite possibly THE fastest gaming laptop in its category.
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