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LightSquared accuses government of ‘rigged’ interference tests
The unanimous conclusion of the group was that the LightSquared planned system did interfere with many GPS receivers, and an analysis by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it would also interfere with several aircraft systems.
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Sprint’s LTE Rollout Detailed
Daily Wireless provides this interview taped by Converged Digest at 4G World in Chicago, Sprint’s VP of Network Development and Engineering, Iyad Tarazi, discusses the move to LTE and the newly announced agreement with Clearwire.
Sprint and Clearwire will work together to incorporate LTE-Advanced on the 2.6 GHz band, using Time Division multiplex. On Sprint’s 1.9 [...]
Europe and US telecom capex
Source: Barclays
The story is clearly different in the US, however, where both AT&T and Verizon Wireless are increasing spending materially this year. Verizon Wireless is only lifting capex by 5% despite embarking on its upgrade from CDMA EV-DO to LTE, indicating that the [...]