Jamaica 4G Network from Digicel
Jamaican mobile phone carrier Digicel is getting ready to launch its 4G mobile phone network in Jamaica.
Digicel now has 4G available to its customers in Jamaica, Haiti, Cayman Islands, Barbados and Tonga.
The initial offering does not include phone handsets and is only a service for USB modems connected to laptops, PCs and netbooks.
FIC 4G Tablet PC
Now that the iPad is such a success we’re starting to see other manufacturers appears with their take on the tablet PC. Some of them even have tablets that can connect to 4G mobile phone networks.
One such 4G device is the FIC Slate PC a tablet PC that’s designed – unlike the iPad – to connect directly to 4G mobile networks.
The 4G connectivity of the PIC Slate PC is made possible by its integration of the industry leading Beceem BCSM250 4G-WiMAX single-chip solution and FIC is expected to release other 4G tablet PCs soon.
Swedish 4G Mobile Phone Network Expands to Visby
Sweden’s 4G mobile phone network is being expanded. Swedish mobile operator TeliaSonera is launching the 4G network in the city of Visby in Gotland.
The new network will cover most of central Visby by the end of this month.
TeliaSonera launched its Stockholm 4G network last year and has plans to have the coverage in 25 cities in Sweden by the end of the year.
4G Mobile TV Trial in Chile
Aspiro, the Swedish mobile content provider, has announced that it’s involved with trials for a high speed 4G mobile TV network in Chile.
The trial, conducted through Aspiro’s subsidiary company, Rubberduck Media Lab, is being carried out with Chile mobile carrier Entel PCS.
The tests are the first of their kind in Latin America and follow Rubberduck’s successful 3G mobile TV service which runs on Entel.
Denmark 4G – TeliaSonera Wins License
Mobile phone company TeliaSonera has won a license to operate a new 4G mobile phone network in Denmark. The company expects to start offering the new network to customers in the Spring of 2011.
TeliaSonera already has 4G phone networks in Sweden, Norway and Finland and was the first company to offer a full commercial 4G phone network to mobile phone users with the launch of its city networks in Stockholm and Oslo.
The license lasts for twenty years and will provide speeds of around ten times that of 3G.