Dish said today that it has launched its 5G wireless service, dubbed Project Genesis, in more than 120 markets. The markets are primarily in Tier 2 cities such as Tuscaloosa, AL; Midland, MI; Boise, ID and three Springfields — Massachusetts,…

Dish said today that it has launched its 5G wireless service, dubbed Project Genesis, in more than 120 markets. The markets are primarily in Tier 2 cities such as Tuscaloosa, AL; Midland, MI; Boise, ID and three Springfields — Massachusetts,…
Those of us over a certain age can remember when cell phones weren’t all that smart and “flip phones” were the in thing. Back then, Motorola’s Razr flip phone was the iPhone of its day, in terms of cool factor,…
Verizon 5G markets now include Denver and Providence, bringing the total number of markets in which the carrier offers mobile 5G service to four. Verizon also said it would add the LG V50 ThinQ 5G smartphone to its 5G smartphone…
Verizon today officially made its mobile 5G service available to customers in Chicago and Minneapolis who have the moto z3 5G-enabled smartphone and a 5G moto mod. The smartphone has been available since late last year but could not be…
The first two Verizon mobile 5G markets will be Chicago and Minneapolis and will launch April 11, the company said today. To use the service, customers will initially have to purchase a 5G moto mod device from Motorola, exclusive to…
The latest claim about a 5G “first” comes from Verizon. The company said today that it completed “the world’s first 5G data transmission on a smartphone on a commercial 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) network.” The 5G commercial network data…
U.S. smartphone shipments fell 2 percent annually to reach 40 million units in the third quarter of 2017, according to Strategy Analytics. In a press release announcing the results, Strategy Analytics said that Motorola had moved up to 5 percent…
Motorola Solutions will provide “best in class” mobile apps, sofware and services for the 4G LTE wireless/mobile broadband network AT&T is building for the federal government’s FirstNet network, the company said yesterday. Having come out on top of FirstNet’s RFP…
Mobile subscribers’ satisfaction with large-screen (5¨-plus) smartphones has improved as they have bought more of them, according to highlights from the second installment of the J.D. Power 2015 U.S. Wireless Smartphone Satisfaction Study. Overall satisfaction with large-screen smartphones, moreover, is…
More than 1 billion smartphones were shipped worldwide in 4Q 2014, with a record-setting total of 74.5 million iPhones contributing to 29 percent year-over-year growth, according to the latest market data from Juniper Research. Smartphone OEM leader Samsung reported a…
SouthernLINC Wireless has launched an innovative offering that extends the company’s push-to-talk capability to iPhones and Android phones that operate on other carriers’ networks. “As long as you have a data connection, you’re communicating over that carrier’s data network,” explained…
The IEEE’s new 802.11 ac WiFi standard will be the fastest growing WiFi technology in the IP set-top box (STB) market, according to a new forecast from Infonetics Research. Though 802.11n dual-mode and 2×2 MIMO (multiple in-multiple out) are the…
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