US actively discouraging networks from buying Huawei and ZTE parts

The FCC is proposing rules to keep telecoms companies from using public money to buy equipment from companies posing a "national security threat."

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T-Mobile’s 600 MHz timeline is ‘well ahead of expectations’, with tests underway this summer

T-Mobile is looking to quickly capitalize on wide 600 MHz spectrum it spent nearly $8 billion on fairly recently, with a big deployment planned this year.

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Best network in the US, T-Mobile, suffers intermittent overnight outages

T-Mobile has won another cluster of accolades, this time from a firm analyzing applications optimization called Twin Prime. It’s a shame this report’s coming off of a rather rough period for the Un-carrier’s network, suffering its third overnight outage in just as many weeks.Twin Prime compared the four major US networks on their ...

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Verizon LTE Advanced service boasts 50 percent speed improvement

Verizon has painted the town a deeper shade of red. 461 cities and towns across the United States, to be precise.It has initiated LTE Advanced service at your nearest major metropolis and many roads that connect them to one another. All of this, Verizon says, without additional cost to the 288 million potential customers affected.Verizon says it has 39 LTE-A capable devices in its population and is actively selling 26 of them right now, dating back to

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Jamie Foxx and Verizon trash Sprint on LTE coverage

Verizon has been doing all it can to try and shake competing CDMA-run Sprint as it gets back on its legs. The fellows at yellow have been making big claims like its network being almost as reliable as Big Red. Plan price cuts have compounded the cutthroat attitudes in this market.Meantime, ...

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Verizon CDMA to finally die (at least in one form) by 2020

Verizon’s looking forward to leave behind this decade with some of the oldest technology in wireless communications it uses.Its CDMA 1X network, which carries traffic for some end consumers as well as machine-to-machine clients, is scheduled to be entirely off by December 31, 2019. In an interview with FierceWireless, spokesperson Chuck Hamby said that the company is working on converting businesses running CDMA-reliant equipment and will work with customers “one-on-one.”“Should there be ...

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Cricket pays out to subscribers after outage

This past weekend’s network outage left many Cricket Wireless customers in outrage. Users (or non-users) went without a cell signal for at least 14 hours on Friday night — probably the least desirable time, especially for younger demographics.Well, if you’re a scorned subscriber, get in touch with customer service and they will give you a code for $5 off this month’s bill as a “Manager Courtesy Credit”. Cricket is extending the $5 credit per line to up to five ...

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