4G LTE

Verizon is Doing Big Speed Things With…4G LTE

Kellen September 28, 2018

5G is right around the corner. In fact, Verizon's home 5G broadband service kicks off its first day in service on October 1. But this week, Verizon is talking about 4G LTE and hitting wild Gbps speeds for some reason. The wireless carrier announced yesterday...

T-Mobile’s Band 71 is in 1,200+ Cities, Guys

Kellen September 10, 2018

T-Mobile's 600MHz spectrum is a thing that T-Mobile customers should care deeply about. This is the band 71 LTE that will expand T-Mobile's network into rural areas and buildings before it becomes 5G. It's the band you should be making sure your next...

Verizon Confirms That It Will No Longer Activate 3G Phones (Updated)

Kellen July 16, 2018 79

If you are holding onto an older 3G phone from Verizon, hoping that one day you'll activate it and re-live the glory days of tech life where we didn't stare at screens for 5-6 hours per day, it's time to give it up. Verizon is no longer activating 3G-only...

T-Mobile Says That 5G Won’t be Much Faster Than 4G…at First

Kellen April 26, 2018 33

With all of the hype surrounding 5G, you wouldn't be out of line to expect a dramatically different experience from your current 4G LTE connection when those first 5G networks go live over the next couple of years. Unless you are talking to T-Mobile, who said...

Verizon CEO Thinks 5G Will Give Your Phone Month-Long Battery Life.

Kellen March 21, 2018 55

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, you are a wild man, sir. Speaking at IBM's Think 2018 conference this week, McAdam spent some time on the subject of 5G and said one thing in particular that took us through an array of emotions within a 30 second span. It went...

I Want to Go Hunt Down T-Mobile LAA Towers After Seeing These Speeds

Kellen March 6, 2018 41

Before we get to a world filled with 5G, there is a good chance we'll see one big Gigabit LTE push from carriers that is fueled by a technology we've referenced pretty frequently in recent months, called License Assisted Access (LAA). LAA provides a boost to...

Qualcomm Simulates 5G in San Francisco and the Speeds are 🔥

Kellen February 26, 2018 15

Qualcomm is going to make sure that it is at the forefront of 5G by working itself into as many tests and simulations it can with its own products. For example, the chipmaker announced today that over the past several months, it has conducted two extensive 5G...

OpenSignal’s State of LTE Report Highlights America’s Slow 4G Speeds

Tim February 20, 2018 15

OpenSignal has published an updated State of LTE report for February, 2018. To be quite honest, 4G technology doesn't seem to have evolved too much lately, given everyone is more focused on developing and deploying 5G, so this report doesn't really have...