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Dish negotiating with FCC on LTE buildout expectations, network could come in 2016

By Evan Rodgers on May 18, 2012 02:10 pm + 3 comments

Dish is one of the few non-traditional entrants in the LTE market still left standing, and the TV Continue reading…
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Verizon to launch 911 emergency texting service next year

By Amar Toor on May 5, 2012 04:13 pm + 11 comments

Verizon announced yesterday that it has selected a vendor to help launch the nation's first Continue reading…
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Amazon to begin collecting sales tax in Texas as part of new settlement

By Adi Robertson on April 27, 2012 03:25 pm + 137 comments

Amazon's tax status has long been a sore point for local and national governments. The online Continue reading…
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FCC seeks $819,000 from T-Mobile for violating hearing aid compatibility standards

By Scott Lowe on April 17, 2012 12:02 am + 8 comments

Citing repeated failures to meet hearing aid capable handset guidelines, the FCC is seeking a Continue reading…
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Spectrum of revenge: how the FCC is under attack from Congress and AT&T

By T.C. Sottek on March 28, 2012 03:39 pm + 174 comments

There's been a rising drumbeat for FCC reform on Capitol Hill ever since the agency helped block the Continue reading…
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LTE in the UK: the rollout begins

By Jamie Keene on March 27, 2012 07:11 pm

Trailing their counterparts in the US, Asia, and the rest of Europe, UK mobile operators are finally Continue reading…
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Apple's iPad '4G' advertising labeled misleading by Australian watchdog, may be banned

By Vlad Savov on March 27, 2012 03:57 am + 156 comments

Unlike the iPhone 4S, the new iPad can be bought with legitimate 4G connectivity on board. The Continue reading…
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Ofcom approves Orange and T-Mobile plan to launch LTE in UK this year

By Adi Robertson on March 13, 2012 03:44 pm + 19 comments

UK telecommunications authority Ofcom has granted preliminary approval for Britain's first Continue reading…
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Sina Weibo users near March 16th deadline to verify identity

By Adi Robertson on March 12, 2012 04:43 pm + 10 comments

Users of Chinese microblog service Sina Weibo have until the end of the week to provide the site Continue reading…
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Microsoft denies any EU antitrust complaint about Google+

By Adi Robertson on February 28, 2012 01:38 pm + 17 comments

Microsoft has recently lashed out at Google with aggressive ads and an EU patent complaint, but the Continue reading…