Monthly Archives: October 2011

Nextdoor, which opens to the public today, hopes to connect local communities through small private social networks where their identities are carefully verified. (AllThingsD)

In September of last year a Pennsylvania resident gave us of a fixed residential LTE trial Verizon has secretly been conducting with DirecTV, providing speeds (albeit on a test network) of 27 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream. A few months after that a DirecTV executive accidentally confirmed the trials at an investor conference in New York, saying a residential LTE offering for rural users was several years out. We’d never seen Verizon confirm these trials until last week on the company’s earnings call, when Verizon CFO Fran Shammo responded to a question about LTE.  (DSLReports)

CHICAGO–Sprint Nextel will deploy LTE-Advanced technology on its 800 MHz spectrum by the first half of 2013, a key executive said.  (FierceWireless)

Despite Steve Ballmer’s apparent disdain for the Googly OS, he must love it really. (Engadget)

Verizon Wireless continued to see strong growth in demand for its LTE devices and network in the third quarter, though the company reported a slight decline in Apple iPhone activations (FierceWireless)

Sprint Nextel notified customers that starting in November it will no longer offer mobile broadband plans with unlimited access to Clearwire’s mobile WiMAX network, eliminating one aspect of Sprint’s market differentiation. (FierceWireless)

Videoconferencing, once so expensive that only enterprise customers could afford it, is seeing a change in the market that, some day soon, will make it as commonplace as the smartphone. (FierceEnterprise)

At a press event today Verizon Wireless launched the LTE-capable Motorola Mobility Droid Razr, updating the popular device from 2004 to the smartphone age by having it run on Android platform.(FierceWireless)

Data traffic on U.S. wireless networks surged 111 percent year-over-year and the number of active smartphones grew from 61.2 million to 95.8 million, a 67 percent increase over the prior year, according to the trade group CTIA. (FierceWireless)

Last year’s iPhone 4 launch brought more than 600,000 pre-orders within the first 24 hours. This year, that number nearly doubled, topping one million within one day of the device’s pre-order availability through AT&T,Sprint and Verizon. (engadget)