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• Study: Users will cough up cash for superior mobile broadband service February 22, 2012
  Customers are willing to pay extra for a better mobile broadband experience, and smartphone users are especially keen to pony up additional cash for improved services, according to research from TNS. A survey of respondents in the United Kingdom and United States revealed that 36 percent of U.S. smartphone users and more than 22 percent in the UK claim that […]
• AirHop and Airspan collaborating on LTE HetNets February 22, 2012
  Systems software company AirHop Communications is collaborating with broadband wireless access networks company Airspan Networks on an LTE heterogeneous networks (HetNet) platform that integrates LTE radio access network (RAN) technology, network management systems and self-organizing network (SON) software. AirHop and Airspan say their HetNet package, slate […]
• Report: Mobile broadband traffic skyrocketed 83% in 2H11 February 21, 2012
  Challenges facing wireless operators are exemplified in two different industry reports released this week, which separately reveal skyrocketing growth in mobile broadband traffic and a breakneck pace of network investment. Global mobile broadband traffic grew by 83 percent in the second half of 2011 with a CAGR of 234 percent during 2011, according to the la […]
• TV white space industry wins last-minute reprieve February 20, 2012
  Supporters of TV white spaces for unlicensed use breathed a sigh of relief when last week's payroll tax extension bill passed both houses of Congress, because it meant their vision of unlicensed broadband service still has a future. "There will absolutely be unlicensed TV white space everywhere in the country, which is what we needed to keep develo […]
• SuperWiFi launched in Canada, but it's not U.S. Super Wi-Fi February 20, 2012
  A company in British Columbia has launched a commercial trial of SuperWiFi, but the service is not the same as the U.S. Super Wi-Fi networks that are supposed to use TV white spaces. Navigata Communications 2009 said its SuperWiFi service in Kamloops, BC, will be marketed via its subsidiary kuMobile and will use Navigata's licensed 3.5 GHz spectrum to p […]