(CBS News) Verizon Wireless announced Wednesday plans to drop their $30-a-month unlimited data plan for a tiered data model for customers who want to upgrade from the 3G network to 4G LTE. Fran Shammo ...

Intel® XMM™ 7160 LTE modem is now shipping in the 4G version of the Samsung GALAXY Tab 3 (10.1) – available in Asia and Europe. Intel® XMM™ 7160 provides multimode (2G/3G/4G LTE) voice and data with ...

The terms "3G" and "4G" are used often these days, but what do they really mean? When purchasing a new mobile phone, it's important to know the difference between the two. Which phone is going to fit ...

Carriers are closing down 3G networks in a final transition to 4G LTE and 5G. Some devices and services won't make the jump. Here's what to know. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and ...

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), the international organization that developed the widely used UMTS WCDMA/HSPA 3G standards, also developed Long-Term Evolution (LTE). Release 8 was ...

It's hard to believe nowadays, but in a simpler time, cellphones really were called "cell phones," not dumbphones, smartphones, feature phones, or superphones. They bulged in your pocket -- if they ...

The mobile broadband industry faces difficult challenges. Operators must cost-effectively meet growing consumer demand for mobile services, using limited available radio-spectrum resources. The good ...

When you’re in the market for a new smartphone, you’ll note there are a lot of acronyms included on the sales card: CDMA, GSM, 3G, 4G, LTE, and so on. When you’re in the market for a new smartphone, ...

Verizon is in the early stage of making the shift from 2G and 3G service to LTE and is testing LTE on bands that had been provisioned for PCS, or personal communications service. Verizon consumers in ...

Photograph by Robert Cardin It’s been a year since we looked closely at wireless service in the United States, and in the interim that service has changed considerably–mostly in positive ways. The ...

With claims of the industry’s widest bandwidth, the OP6100 family of digital front-end (DFE) processors provide 65 MHz of occupied bandwidth, 145 MHz of total bandwidth, and 325 MHz of pre-distortion ...

In this Ask Maggie, CNET's Marguerite Reardon helps a reader decide whether he should ditch AT&T for Verizon's LTE network when the new iPhone comes out. Marguerite Reardon Former senior reporter ...