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

Kellen July 16, 2018 81

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...

Verizon Dominates Latest Wireless Network Report, T-Mobile Struggles

Kellen February 7, 2018 55

The latest wireless network report from RootMetrics is out and Verizon once again took home its top honors. That win was followed up by AT&T in a distant second, while Sprint and T-Mobile struggled to keep up during testing. With all the talk from carriers...

Sprint is First Carrier to Confirm Data Plan Price Hikes are Coming With 5G

Kellen February 2, 2018 60

Sprint posted its latest quarterly numbers this morning and they clearly came away happy about the new customers that were added. Good for them. However, during the call to discuss the quarter and the near feature ahead, Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure confirmed...