I was reading my telecom news blogs this week and stumbled across an article about LightSquared and the spectrum they are planning on using for LTE ( http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/lightsquared-ceo-ahuja-confident-fcc-will-approve-network-plan...

Everybody knows that 4G is better than 3G. Otherwise, why would the industry be spending all that money and time and effort to create and deploy a brand-new wireless technology, if the old one was just as good? That would be crazy, right? Let's compare...

Living here in the United States, I don't think about the rest of the world as often as I would like. So when I think about there being a lot of LTE operators, I focus on the fact that three operators in the US have either launched or are going...

I am sure you have seen the commercials. T-Mobile says they have the largest 4G network. Verizon says they are 4G and they have the fastest 4G network. AT&T also claims 4G. But, they don't all use the same technology. So that begs the question...

Over the past month Verizon Wireless has released the HTC Thunderbolt. Normally we do not talk about mobile devices here on LTE University, but this one is quite interesting. It has a couple of claims to fame. The first is that it is a LTE smartphone...

We have seen all these terms, 4G, LTE, and WiMAX, floating around. Then, we hear that ITU has not yet “accepted” any technology as 4G. We will try to define, as clearly as we can, the relationship between 4G and LTE. First and foremost...

Long Term Employment for whom? We sometimes joke about what LTE really stands for. Among the many possibilities that the letters L, T and E offer, the phrase Long Term Employment has been brought up more than once. I sometimes wonder who is going to enjoy...

While I was growing up, Christmas was always a special time. Well, almost a special time. We had Christmas off of school. I lived in southern Oklahoma and it was usually pretty cold, but not too cold. My family would get together at my Grandmother’s...

For years I have used my own routine to find and access 3GPP specifications online. After typing in 3gpp.org , a click on the specifications link would bring up a page with the most descriptive link on the entire site: “GO HERE”, it used to...