Some customers getting 200Mbps or more on AT&T 5G millimeter wave network

Some early access customers to AT&T's 5G+ network have seen speeds as high as 300Mbps or 400Mbps. But it's not representative of everyone's experience.

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Verizon complains to ad industry self-regulator about T-Mobile LTE speed claims

The National Advertising Division, a Better Business Bureau subsidiary, told T-Mobile to cut it with the "fastest LTE network" claim. It flipped a counter.

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T-Mobile uncorks LTE speed limit for Apple Watch Series 3

The Apple Watch Series 3 will not have its LTE speeds capped at 512kbps, T-Mobile CEO John Legere tweeted out. But what about an unnecessary SIM fee?

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Verizon admits to “optimizing” amid accusations of Netflix throttling

It's not just Netflix: YouTube and Verizon's own go90 service is being affected. Is there a net neutrality issue here? It comes down to technicalities.

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Galaxy S8 and HTC U11 get software fix to better access Sprint 2.5GHz band

Sprint's been fighting its reputation as the weakest network in the US and it's using download speeds through the Galaxy S8 as a metric.

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Huawei P10 memory chip speeds worryingly inconsistent between eMMC 5.1 and UFS 2.1

Critics across social media are inferring from benchmarks and other evidence that Huawei is using different grades of RAM and flash storage chips.

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iPhone 7 Plus modems analyzed, Qualcomm deemed better than Intel

The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus have cellular modems from two sources, the first time modem sourcing has been diversified for the device series. Qualcomm provided CDMA-capable chips — to wit, it is the X12 LTE modem that can be found on the Snapdragon 820 — for iPhones destined for the US, China and Japan while other territories got iPhones with Intel modems.Intel is said to be using this opportunity to gun for

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OnePlus 3 speedtest against Galaxy S7 edge is bloodbath

With the OnePlus 3’s wholesome 6GB of RAM, you’d think it’d be a beast at multitasking between apps and games. And in the past, the major marketing peg that OnePlus has stood on was that fact that it made flagship killing phones. So, the logical fallacy here would be that the OnePlus 3 would beat up, say,

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Singapore has fastest LTE, South Korea has best coverage

OpenSignal has another report out today that places US networks firmly in the “needs improvement” category.It announced in its global State of LTE report for the last quarter of 2015 that the US was ranked seventh in coverage and 55th in speeds. Average speeds across the five major networks (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular and Verizon) come to 10Mbps while coverage stands at 81 percent of the country.This puts the country in line with Kuwaiti and Qatari ...

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WALDIO could mean faster phones and longer battery life

We’ve all experienced it, as time passes our smartphones and tablets seem to get slower and slower. We’ve told ourselves that it’s just all the crap valuable software that we have installed. We’ve told ourselves that applications keep getting bigger and more complex (and ultimately slower). We aren’t wrong. All those things contribute to both actual and perceived slowdowns, but there may be one other contributing factor that is not only slowing us down, but hurting battery life in the process. How much? According to one study, smartphones could be 20 times ...

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