Rural areas of Sampson County and northeastern Orange County are now covered by Verizon's 4G LTE network.
Verizon has added 140 4G LTE-enabled cellular towers in North Carolina this year, and says its LTE network now covers more than 87 percent of the state.
The cellular provider began rolling out its LTE network in 2011, and plans to cover 100 percent of its 3G footprint by mid 2013.
Veteran Triangle cell-tower developers have formed a new venture to build compact cell towers in dense urban areas with $80.85 million in backing.
Eco-Site, based in Chapel Hill, will buy and mitigate brownfields and blighted areas as sites for cell towers that can be less than half the size of conventional wireless towers.
Eco-Site includes three former executives from Cary-based SpectraSite, which was acquired by a competitor in 2005. Eco-Site will also work with Cherokee Partners, a Raleigh company that specializes in cleaning up polluted sites.
The venture was announced Friday by the lead funder, MSouth Equity Partners, in Atlanta. The first phase of funding is $10.6 million, giving MSouth an ownership stake in Eco-Site and three of five slots on Eco-Site's board.
"This is all about increasing capacity for 4G and LTE," said Eco-Site co-founder and CEO Dale Carey. "There's a real green element to what we're doing: We're going to use natural gas generators and many of these sites will be esthetically enhanced with landscaping."
The Samsung Galaxy Note is not optimized for skinny jeans. You will not see a Galaxy Note strapped to the arm of a mall-walker. It is not for the meek, nor the timid. Is it the Swiss Army knife of mobile devices? Can it be your smartphone and tablet? Does it live up to being the phablet?
The next successor in Apple's iPad tablet may be unveiled soon and with significant hardware upgrades.
All Things D reports Apple will hold its launch for the iPad 3 in early March.
Don't expect anything drastically different from Apple's current form factor, but a quad-core processor, more powerful graphics processing, and a display at or near 2048×1536 resolution is very likely. Will the iPad 3 be Apple's first foray into LTE?
Apple is said to be intensely laboring away to ready apps in time for the iPad 3 launch.
Going through the spec sheet for the HTC Vivid you'll see the usual array of hardware and features. Sure, the 4.5-inch S-LCD screen's 540 x 960 resolution crams more pixels into the display than the Samsung Skyrocket's 480 x 800 Super AMOLED Plus display. But what really separates HTC devices from the pack is Sense. Sense 3.0 is HTC's magic.
UPDATE: Congratulations to Art Baldini of Raleigh, and thanks to AT&T!
The giveaway is over and it was hard to hand over the prize which coincided with AT&T's launch of LTE in the Triangle.
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AT&T Wireless has packaged its 4G Samsung Galaxy 8.9 Tab and 4G Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket for $479.99. That's a great deal. But we've got a better one - free.
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Just fill out the form (by clicking on the photo below) before New Year's Day! We will do the drawing for the winner in the first week of January. Learn more about the Samsung Galaxy 8.9 Tab and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket at AT&T Wireless
Early adopters with AT&T LTE capable devices have already experienced the faster speeds over the new network as the carrier implemented the technology. Today AT&T removes the curtains for LTE in Raleigh and Chapel Hill to make it official.
In November AT&T Wireless rolled out its 4G Long Term Evolution network in Charlotte which left Triangle residents wondering when the blazing fast network would be available to them. We have an answer.
If you are reading this then you probably know Apple is expected to unveil a new iPhone Tuesday - maybe even two. Savvy tech fans also know that virtually no one expects an LTE 4G compatible device. Well almost no one.
Today Verizon Wireless officially launches its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in the Triangle.
VZW says the high speed wireless network covers the areas of Cary, Durham, Apex, Clayton, Morrisville, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Wake Forest, Garner, Rolesville, Knightdale, Wendell, Holly Springs, Fuquay-Varina, Gorman, Smithfield and of course Raleigh.
