US Cellular’s current 4G LTE coverage, however, is limited to parts of Wisconsin, Texas/Oklahoma, Maine, North Carolina and Iowa. Additional cities in Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia may also have access to 4G LTE by the second half of 2012.

• 2 GB/mo. $25.00/mo.
• 5 GB/mo. $50.00/mo.
• 10 GB/mo. $90.00/mo.
  Additional Usage charge is $10/1GB

King Street Wireless currently holds 700 MHz wireless spectrum in 27 states and is partnering with Chicago-based U.S. Cellular to deliver LTE service to U.S. Cellular’s customers in several of the carrier’s markets. US Cellular (King Street Wireless) owns 25 “A blocks” in the 700 MHz band covering 7.6% of pops and 127 “B blocks” covering 6.6% of pops.

Other regional carriers that own large chunks of 700 MHz (that AT&T might be interested in) include:

• Cellular South: 14 “A blocks” covering 4.7% of pops, and 10 “B blocks” covering 0.5% of pops
• CenturyTel: 21 “A blocks” covering 3.8% of pops, and 48 “B blocks” covering 2.4% of pops
• Cox Wireless: 14 “A blocks” covering 6.6% of pops and 8 “B blocks” covering 0.6% of pops
• MetroPCS: 1 “A block” license covering 2.8% of pops
• US Cellular (King Street Wireless): 25 “A blocks” covering 7.6% of pops, and 127 “B blocks” covering 6.6% of pops

Block “A” radios require a different power profile in order to avoid interference with the adjoining television spectrum. AT&T refuses to provide 700MHz roaming on the “A” block.

U.S. Cellular, a CDMA carrier, owns and operates the sixth largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, behind Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, and Metro PCS. As of 2011, they serve about 6.1 million customers in 126 markets in 26 U.S. states.

Cox Communications is getting out of the wireless business and expects to sell its 20MHz slice of AWS spectrum and 700 MHz licenses to Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular for $315 million.

AT&T is said to be in merger talks with Leap Wireless, a regional rival operating in 35 states with 9.5 million total subscribers. But Leap’s CDMA technology would be a better match with MetroPCS, Sprint and Verizon. If AT&T wants more 700 MHz, US Cellular has 127 “B-Block” licenses.

Meanwhile, Verizon Wireless said it will sell all of its 700 MHz Lower A and B Block spectrum in exchange for getting regulatory approval to purchase AWS spectrum from a group of cable companies. Verizon hopes to sell 24, 12 MHz A Block licenses covering 152 million POPs and 54, 12 MHz B Block licenses covering 48 million POPs.

The four Regional operators that have now announced LTE plans include:

• MetroPCS, the fifth largest facilities-based wireless carrier in the United States, currently with 500,000 LTE subscribers out of a customer base of 9.34 million.
• U.S. Cellular, the 6th largest carrier, says it will have about half of its 6 million subscribers within LTE coverage by year’s end.
• Leap Wireless, the 7th largest carrier, is a Cricket provider. They launched LTE in Tucson, Arizona earlier this year, squeezing both 3G voice and 4G data into one AWS slot. The company has some 5.5 million subscribers.
• C Spire Wireless launches LTE service in 20 markets in Mississippi in September. C Spire operates a network that covers Mississippi and parts of Tennessee, Alabama and Florida. The company has close to 900,000 total subscribers.

Verizon Wireless has adult supervision from Vodafone. AT&T Mobility does not. Global LTE subscriptions are expected to exceed 40 million by the end of 2012, representing a fourfold increase over the nine million global LTE subscriptions in 2011, according to ABI.

See Dailywireless: U.S. Cellular Goes LTE, T-Mobile & Leap Wireless Do Spectrum Swap, C-Spire Goes LTE, AT&T Competitors: No 700MHz Roaming, Verizon-Cable Deal: Too Cozy?, Cross Marketing of Verizon & Cable Begins, Verizon Buying Nationwide AWS Spectrum from Cable, Comcast Adds Wireless Tower Business, BelAir: We’re MIMO, Too! , Wavion: 3X3 MIMO for Muni Wi-Fi, Carrier-run Public WiFi Nets Expand, Towerstream Launches Wholesale MuniFi, AT&T Moves to Hotzones and Picocells, AT&T Hotzone in Wrigleyville, Free AT&T Wi-Fi for Charlotte and NYC Gets Another Free WiFi Proposal

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This replacement for the Comet is T-Mobile’s version of the Ascend II. This basic Android phone has a memory card slot, Wi-Fi mobile hotspot, 3-megapixel camera with video capture, and GPS navigation.

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Following the rumors, the Eclipse would features a 4.67-inch display, a quad-core Snapdragon processor, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of on-board storage. The battery will have 2100mAh to match the Galaxy S III. It would run on an LG-customized version of Android 4.0. Finally, it would packed with NFC and Google Wallet.

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Here is a quick round-up of must-have apps that are helping users focus on their health:

• ZocDoc – A free service that enables patients to search for doctors, sort by location, specialty and insurance accepted, read verified patient reviews, and instantly book an appointment online.
• SkinScan – A free service that enables patients to search for doctors, sort by location, specialty and insurance SkinScan – Easily photograph, scan and monitor your moles over time with this app in order to prevent skin cancer.
• Med Helper– A free service that enables patients to search for doctors, sort by location, specialty and insurance MedHelper – Tracks medication and stores information for accurate prescription inventory while sending you reminders to take your prescriptions.
• RunKeeper – A free service that enables patients to search for doctors, sort by location, specialty and insurance RunKeeper – Encourages you to track, measure and improve your fitness.

The mHealth field has emerged as a sub-segment of eHealth, using computers, mobile phones, patient monitors, etc., for health services and information. According to the analyst firm Berg Insight, around 2.2 million patients worldwide were using a home monitoring service at the end of 2011. That figure does not include patients that use monitoring devices connected to a PC or mobile phone. The number of these devices using integrated cellular connectivity increased from 0.42 million in 2010 to about 0.57 million in 2011, and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 34.6 percent to 2.47 million in 2016.

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Detectives could follow a suspect at a safe distance because they can see the suspect’s movements and location on their device screens. Later— after the suspect meets up with other potential suspects — the officers could use their smartphones to take images that they would transmit to headquarters for processing through facial-recognition software.

The application leverages Polaris’s Wireless Location Signatures platform, which simultaneously can locate all subscriber devices on a wireless network, both in real time and historically.

That means law-enforcement officers will know where a suspect is, where he has been and where he is heading at any given moment, said Mahesh Patel, Polaris’s senior vice president of products and technology.

Altus Mobile allows field agents to simultaneously track suspects on a Smartphone or tablet in real time by receiving up-to-date intelligence from headquarters, such as:

• Past and current locations of suspects
• Locations where two or more suspects meet
• Occasions where suspects enter/exit a restricted area
• Visualization of suspects’ surroundings by augmented reality
• Nearby locations of authorities (police, military, etc.)

Polaris Wireless Location Signatures (WLSTM) solution identifies the location of a wireless device to within 50 meters. The application at this point only opens a gateway to a secure tunnel that leads back to the agency’s servers, where the platform actually resides, reports Urgent.com. But a native version of the application is in the works.

NightVisionExperts.com has debuted a new night vision scope iPhone adapter.

The slide-on adapter precisely mounts a PVS-14A night vision scope over the iPhone’s 8-megapixel camera lens. With a single tap first responders can now securely upload high resolution night vision photos, video, geotag data and text to their remote counterparts in command and control.

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