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Verizon Wireless systems undergoing upgrade to allow 4G devices?

By: |Jul 14th, 2010 at 11:31AM
Filed Under: 4G, Exclusives, LTE, Mobile, Verizon
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According to a new tipster of ours, yes. Apparently emails have been sent to some higher-up employees at Verizon detailing a systems upgrade. The purpose of the upgrade, you ask? Apparently to make it possible to provision and activate 4G devices. A direct quote from the email looks like this: “The ESN/MEID field will be changed to Device ID effective Sunday to prepare for 4G devices coming on.” This could mean a little quicker deployment of Verizon’s upcoming LTE network, but it’s ent...

Exclusives

Canada’s TELUS to get the HTC Snap World Edition and Touch Pro2 World Edition

By: |May 2nd, 2009 at 11:30AM
Filed Under: CDMA, EV-DO, Exclusives, GSM, Handsets, HTC
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Well isn’t this interesting. One of our TELUS ninjas just sent us some snapshots of the TELUS inventory system which now lists both the HTC Touch Pro2 World Edition and the HTC Snap World Edition. This is the first time we know of that either of these devices have shown up in a carrier’s inventory system. While nothing is confirmed, we have to think we’re looking at EV-DO Rev. A for both handsets along with dual-band GSM as the World Edition moniker implies. Beyond that we’re guessing ...