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Nextel was an American wireless service operator that merged with Sprint in 2005 and ceased to exist as a subsidiary of T-Mobile US in 2013. Nextel was known for its push-to-talk feature, unlimited plans, and global positioning system integration.
T-Mobile will shut down its 3G network by summer and Verizon in December. The home-alarm industry has asked the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. regulator, to delay AT&T's network ...
High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is a mobile protocol that extends and improves 3G networks using WCDMA. It has different categories of user equipment that support higher data rates and lower latency, up to 337 Mbit/s in the downlink and 34 Mbit/s in the uplink.
Node B is the hardware that connects mobile phones to the wider telephone network using WCDMA / TD-SCDMA as the air interface technology. It differs from GSM base stations in frequency use, power requirements and cell size.
3G is the third generation of wireless mobile telecommunications technology that offers faster data transfer and better voice quality than 2G. It has different radio interfaces, such as W-CDMA, TD-SCDMA, CDMA2000 and EDGE, and supports services like mobile Internet, video calls and mobile TV.
Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is a wireless standard for voice calls and SMS using LTE networks. It has higher capacity and quality than 3G and 2G, but requires compatible devices and providers.
The Telecoms crash, also known as the Telecommunications Bubble was a stock market crash that occurred in 2001, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble.. The telecommunications industry had experienced significant growth and investment during the 1990s, fueled by the expansion of the internet and the introduction of wireless technology.
Learn about the development and deployment of 3G mobile telephony, which was relatively slow to be adopted globally due to various factors. Find out when and where 3G networks were launched in different regions and countries, such as Africa, Asia, Europe, and the US.