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4G wireless now a necessity for businesses

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Wireless providers continue to expand 4G/LTE coverage across the nation.

It wasn’t that long ago that wireless providers first started rolling out the next-generation 4G networks. In just a couple of years, though, 4G/LTE networks have become the standard—at least in larger metropolitan areas—and for business users trying to get things done from mobile devices, 4G makes all the difference.

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Sprint and AT&T both unveiled new 4G coverage zones today. The realm of 4G wireless networking continues to grow with each passing week, and for business users it has matured from a luxury to a necessity.

Sprint finally introduced 4G/LTE coverage in New York (or at least part of NY)—obviously a major wireless market. Meanwhile, AT&T added 4G coverage in eight new regions, bringing AT&T 4G service to a total of 336 markets across the United States.

Wireless providers continue to expand 4G/LTE coverage across the nation.

It wasn’t that long ago that wireless providers first started rolling out the next-generation 4G networks. In just a couple of years, though, 4G/LTE networks have become the standard—at least in larger metropolitan areas—and for business users trying to get things done from mobile devices, 4G makes all the difference.

PCWorld conducted an extensive nationwide survey of wireless service last year. Verizon and Sprint yielded sad results on their CDMA-based 3G networks, with average download speeds of about 1Mbps for Verizon, and about half that for Sprint. AT&T and T-Mobile did much better thanks to their HSPA+ 3G networks service, which T-Mobile actually marketed as 4G even though it’s not.

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T-Mobile Honored as One of the "World's Most Ethical Companies"

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T-Mobile Honored as One of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies”

Fifth Consecutive Year of Ethical Leadership Across 36 Industries and More than 100 Countries

BELLEVUE, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– T-Mobile USA, Inc. was today recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the 2013 World’s Most Ethical Companies, which marks the fifth consecutive year that T-Mobile has received this distinction. Out of a record number of nominations for the award, T-Mobile secured a hard-earned spot on the list by continuing to implement and maintain ethical business practices and initiatives that are instrumental to the company’s success, raising the standard for the industry.

“At T-Mobile, our values guide and drive our actions,” said Dave Miller, Chief Legal Officer, T-Mobile USA. “This recognition – for the fifth consecutive year – as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies validates our constant focus on integrity and on the T-Mobile values that guide us and resonate in everything we do.”

Through in-depth research and a multi-step analysis, Ethisphere reviewed nominations from companies in more than 100 countries and 36 industries. The methodology for the World’s Most Ethical Companies includes reviewing codes of ethics, litigation and regulatory infraction histories; evaluating the investment in innovation and sustainable business practices; looking at activities designed to improve corporate citizenship; and studying nominations from senior executives, industry peers, suppliers and customers.

“T-Mobile continues to set the bar within its industry for a number of its ethics and compliance programs,” said Alex Brigham, executive director of the Ethisphere Institute. “As more companies each year strive for recognition, T-Mobile returns to World’s Most Ethical 2013 by demonstrating its strong commitment to ethical practices and integrity.”

Read about the methodology and view the complete list of the 2013 World’s Most Ethical Companies at http://ethisphere.com/

About T-Mobile USA, Inc.

Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc. is the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom AG (OTCQX: DTEGY). By the end of the fourth quarter of 2012, approximately 132.3 million mobile customers were served by the mobile communication segments of the Deutsche Telekom group — 33.4 million by T-Mobile USA — all via a common technology platform based on GSM and UMTS and additionally HSPA+ 21/HSPA+ 42. T-Mobile USA’s innovative wireless products and services help empower people to connect to those who matter most. Multiple independent research studies …read more
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TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Announces Second Edition LTE and LTE-Advanced Book

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TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Announces Second Edition LTE and LTE-Advanced Book

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYS: A) today announced the second edition of its book “LTE and the Evolution to 4G Wireless: Design and Measurement Challenges,” adding LTE-Advanced and more to its in-depth examination of the 3GPP LTE cellular technology and the challenges it poses to engineering design and test teams. Agilent introduced the new edition at Mobile World Congress, Feb. 25, in Barcelona, Spain.

With more than 40 authors and now at 648 pages, this edition (published by Wiley) provides technical and practical knowledge about the complex LTE and LTE-Advanced technology. The content comes from Agilent engineers working with the technology on a daily basis, both in the lab and on the committees that are defining the LTE standards.

This edition is updated with the latest 3GPP standards, including Release 11, and provides insights looking forward to Release 12. It has more detail on physical and upper layer signaling, MIMO and advanced performance testing on receivers and transmitters. It covers new material on functional testing and the latest on RF and signaling conformance testing. It also has a new section on non-signaling manufacturing test.

Moray Rumney, the technical editor, joined Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies in 1984, after completing a bachelor’s degree in electronics from Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University. Rumney joined the European Telecommunications Standards Institute in 1991 and 3GPP in 1999, where he was a significant contributor to the development of type approval tests for GSM and UMTS. He currently represents Agilent at 3GPP RAN WG4, where the air interface for HSPA+ and LTE-Advanced is being developed. Rumney’s current focus is in MIMO over-the-air test methods. Rumney has published many technical articles in the field of cellular communications and is a regular speaker and chairman at industry conferences. He is a member of IET and a chartered engineer.

“LTE and the Evolution to 4G Wireless: Design and Measurement Challenges, Second Edition” can be ordered at www.agilent.com/find/ltebook.

For more information on Agilent LTE tools, refer to www.agilent.com/find/lte and www.agilent.com/find/lte-advanced.

About Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYS: A) is the world’s premier measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, diagnostics, electronics and communications. The company’s 20,500 employees serve customers in more than 100 countries. Agilent had …read more
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Samsung's Galaxy Note 8.0 Tablet is Also a Phone

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Determined to extend its Note line to all mobile form factors, Samsung has introduced the new 8-inch Galaxy Note 8.0, which falls alongside its 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II smartphone and 10-inch Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet.

Introduced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this weekend, the Galaxy Note 8.0 is an Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean-based tablet with an 8-inch 1280 x 800 display, delivering a pixel density of 189ppi — slightly higher than the iPad mini’s 7.9-inch 163ppi display. Under the hood, it’s powered by Samsung’s 1.6GHz quad-core Exynos 4 processor, 2GB of RAM, and comes with 32GB or 64GB of storage. While LTE variants are in the works, the Galaxy Note 8.0 will initially offer cellular connectivity via HSPA+ — supplemented, of course, by Wi-Fi.

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T-Mobile exec: 4G LTE-launch timing is 'perfect'

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T-Mobile USA’s senior vice president of B2B services Frank Sickinger shared some LTE-related numbers and had some interesting things to say in a recent interview about the carrier’s upcoming LTE rollout in the United States.

It’s well known among mobile watchers that T-Mobile will be the last major U.S. carrier to rollout an LTE network. The popular opinion is that T-Mobile has fallen behind other carriers when it comes to LTE. Sickinger, not surprisingly, begs to differ.

For T-Mobile, “it’s not just about having [an] LTE [network], it’s about building a massive LTE footprint,” Sickinger says. “We already have sites that are lit up with LTE. But for us it’s about having the entire network modernized [before launch]. That’s not always the case with the competition.”

T-Mobile’s wireless evolution from EDGE technology to HSPA and eventually HSPA+ has been a long and laborious process, but the carrier is just about ready to rollout LTE across America. Following a breakup of the proposed T-Mobile/AT&T merger in late 2011, T-Mobile was able to secure significant new spectrum from AT&T, according to Sickinger, which helped it expand the overall network and boost the HSPA+ coverage.

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Intel bringing 'Yolo' smartphone to untapped foreign markets

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Intel, in partnership with integrated communications provider Safaricom, announced a new entry-level smartphone designed for developing markets this week, dubbing the device the “Yolo.”

The device is powered by an Atom Z2420 SoC, a 1.2GHz chip based on a 32nm process and boasting support for 1080p video and 8MP image capture. The Yolo will be an Android-based device, though the company did not indicate which version of the mobile platform would be used. It will also have a 3.5-inch screen, HSPA+ capability and support for global roaming.

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Aysegul Ildeniz, Intel’s regional director for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa, played up the Yolo’s potential appeal to African customers.

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