AT&T 4G LTE expands to Newberry

NEWBERRY -- A rural Greene County town will now be covered by AT&T's 4G LTE service.

AT&T is now giving local customers in the Newberry area faster mobile Internet speeds on the network with the nation's strongest LTE signal. The expansion will also cover Elnora in Daviess County.

AT&T has launched 4G LTE in Newberry and Elnora near I-69 as part of an ongoing rollout across the area.

AT&T has made several additional area network enhancements over the past year for residents, businesses and travelers. These include expansion of 4G LTE coverage to Worthington and Switz City, along with a mobile Internet cell site near State Road 45 and County Road 200 East. Here's how 4G LTE benefits the customer:

* Faster speeds. LTE can deliver speeds faster than many other mobile Internet technologies.4 You can stream, download, upload and play games faster than ever before.

* Reliability. Easily stay connected to the people, information and entertainment you care about as you move around town.

* Options. Be the envy of your tech-savvy friends by taking advantage of all the latest 4G LTE smartphones and tablets AT&T offers.

"This investment in technology by AT&T is welcome in Daviess and Greene counties. Citizens and businesses will be able to communicate and conduct business faster than ever before with these mobile Internet improvements. I appreciate AT&T's hard work to expand 4G LTE to these communities," said State Sen. Eric Bassler.

AT&T has invested nearly $2 billion in its wireless and wired networks in Indiana between 2012 through 2014, driving a wide range of upgrades to reliability, coverage, speed and performance for residents and business customers.

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Ericsson joins AT&T Smart Cities initiative

LASVEGAS: Swedish multinational provider of communication technology Ericsson has collaborated with American telecommunication giant AT&T to build smart, sustainable cities using Internet of Things (IoT) innovations in the US.

The alliance will deploy information and communications technology (ICT) to improve citizens' lives where they work and play.

"Ericsson is a global leader with the proven software platforms and technology needed to develop smart cities, making them an ideal fit in this effort," Mike Zeto, general manager of smart cities, AT&T IoT solutions, said in a statement.

"Together we can help cities enhance the lives of their citizens by saving them money, conserving energy, improving quality of life and further engaging with residents," Zeto added.

The alliance will support AT&T's new smart cities framework, which is aimed at helping cities better serve their citizens and would work with local US universities to build smart city environments called "spotlight cities."

The framework will be deployed in many US cities with a focus on infrastructure, citizen engagement, transportation and public safety.

"Our collaboration with AT&T will help create the cities of the future in which citizens are safer, healthier and better prepared to handle the challenges of daily life. We must determine how to integrate disparate infrastructure for the common benefit of society," Orvar Hurtig, head of Industry & Society at Ericsson, said on the alliance.

Ericsson will help to establish smart, sustainable cities by connecting the 100 cities in the world with 4G/LTE and enabling intelligent infrastructure connectivity. Ericsson will also invest in safety, transportation and utilities/energy sectors.

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Here’s why LTE networks are about to become much more useful

There’s more to LTE than just speeding up communications between mobile devices, and its increasingly faster speeds – now at 150 Mpbs and expected to hit 600 Mpbs by 2018 – is beginning to benefit enterprise networks.

In a recent webinar, 451 Research analyst Christian Renaud noted that many conference attendees are eschewing the free WiFi offered at event facilities in favor of tethering to an LTE network because it’s faster.

“It’s getting far faster and more ubiquitous,” he said. At this rate, the speed of wireless connections will begin to exceed the speed of wired connections in the next few years.

In addition, the worldwide footprint has grown to 422 LTE networks in 143 countries, and all but 12 countries globally have committed to LTE networks, said Renaud. This footprint is now poised to become a platform for innovation and growth in applications as cloud computing, mobility in the workforce, the Internet of Things (IoT) and security have an impact on networks, he said.

Industrial IoT is now becoming a reality, said Renaud, and it means operational technology that historically wasn’t connected to the network is going to be, and it’s going to add further complexity to enterprise networks. Data center and WAN congestion is increasing pressure to offload non-core applications to the cloud, he said, while existing MPLS and private WANs are too “brittle” and interfering with the ability to quickly respond to new applications and services.


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4G drives smartphone growth in Sept quarter

Shipments of smartphones in the third quarter of 2015 grew by over 21 per cent mainly on the back of rising demand for affordable 4G devices.

According to the International Data Corporation's (IDC) Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 28.3 million smartphones were shipped to India in the third quarter of 2015, against 23.3 million units for the same period last year.

In the period under review, 4G enabled devices witnessed a near three-fold increase in unit shipments over Q2 2015. Samsung emerged as the biggest 4G player in India with its sub-$150 LTE models such as Galaxy Grand Prime and Galaxy J2.

“The growth in the smartphone market was helped by rising demand for affordable 4G smartphones,” Karthik J, Senior Market Analyst, client devices for IDC, said in a statement.

E-tailers such as Flipkart, Snapdeal, and Amazon continue to drive shipments of the Chinese vendors, who have been aggressively trying to capture the 4G smartphone market in India,” he added.

The closing weeks of the quarter witnessed incremental supplies as many vendors were preparing their channels in lieu of the festive season and online mega sale programmes.

In addition, growth was also driven by low-cost phones with larger screens.

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