Neowin News Feed for: Lightsquared

FreedomPop hits snag on road to free net access

John Callaham — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:50:24 +0000

FreedomPop, the company that announced plans to offer free mobile phone and net access in December, is now dumping its carrier Lightsquared and looking for another partner. Read more...

LightSquared says US goverment tests were "rigged"

John Callaham — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:24:18 +0000

LightSquared claims that the recent tests by the US government that showed LightSquared's wireless network interfere with GPS signals were "rigged" by the government "to produce bogus results." Read more...

LightSquared's network affects majority of GPS units in US

John Callaham — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:25:32 +0000

The results of a new test of LightSquared's proposed 4G wireless network showed that it causes disruptions in 75 percent of the GPS units in the US. Read more...

FreedomPop revealed; claims to offer free net access

John Callaham — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:26:30 +0000

Niklas Zennstrom, one of the co-founders of Skype, has announced his new company FreedomPop which claims will offer "free broadband and voice services to all Americans" starting in 2012. Read more...

Sprint confirms roll-out of LTE network in 2012

John Callaham — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:36:39 +0000

Sprint has announced it will launch its own LTE-based 4G network in 2012 which will cover about 120 million people by the end of that year and 250 million people by the end of 2013. Read more...

Sprint Nextel reveals latest financial numbers

John Callaham — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:22:26 +0000

The US's third biggest wireless phone and data carrier announced its latest financial results and the numbers were not good. Bloomberg reports that Sprint Nextel had a net loss of $847 million for the quarter... Read more...

LightSquared claims to have solved GPS issues

John Callaham — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:15:01 +0000

Earlier this month, reports came in that the wireless network for the the wholesale 4G LTE-based company LightSquared was interfering with some GPS signals in a test in New Mexico. Now LightSquared has both admitted... Read more...