1. Articles from Kevin Fitchard

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    1. AT&T punishes its customers for T-Mo merger’s failure

      Explore GigaOM (Jan 26 2012)

      AT&T punishes its customers for T-Mo merger’s failure It also expanded fiber and Ethernet backhaul links to the majority of its cell sites, so 80 percent of its mobile broadband traffic is riding over 14 Mbps HSPA+ connections. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Congress

    2. Verizon still ironing the bugs out of LTE

      Explore GigaOM (Dec 8 2011)

      Verizon still ironing the bugs out of LTE When Verizon built its new LTE network, it didn’t just mount new fatter radios on its towers; it changed the fundamental design of every aspect of its network: moving from hardware to software driven base stations, evolving its network service delivery systems from old hierarchical voice-centric chains of gateways to new flat IP architectures, and replacing old copper backhaul links with fiber Ethernet to the tower. (Read Full Article)

    3. Examining Intel's conception of the radio access network

      Explore Connected Planet Online (Jun 16 2011)

      Examining Intel's conception of the radio access network Rather than link every small cell with fiber, operators will be looking for copper or even point-to-point wireless solutions, which could lead to a bottleneck in the network. Meanwhile macro-cells are all moving to fiber Ethernet backhaul giving them the capacity necessary to move their computing and baseband power further into the network. (Read Full Article)

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