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The Standards News Portal is updated on a daily basis to bring you the most important news about standards – how they are created, how they affect you – and who’s doing what to whom. The Standards News Portal was launched in February 2002 and currently contains 8408 categorized, searchable articles, perhaps the largest archive of its type in existence.

Sprint is upgrading its – unlimited’ plan to keep up with…

Sprint is upgrading its ‘unlimited’ plan to keep up with T-Mobile and Verizon – here’s what’s new Sprint on Thursday announced that, starting February 17, its unlimited data plan will offer high-definition video streaming and 10 GB of LTE mobile-hotspot data a month for new subscribers. The upgrades come just days after T-Mobile updated its “One” unlimited plan to include the same features, which itself came in response to Verizon’s re-entry into the unlimited plan market earlier in the week.

AT&T to launch its proposed version of 5G wireless this year

AT&T will launch its first 5G wireless service in Indianapolis and Austin later this year, offering theoretical top speeds of 400Mbps or higher, the company said. The service is based on AT&T’s vision for 5G; there are no standards yet for the successor to today’s 4G LTE service, and any 5G standards are more than a year away at best.

T-Mobile Asks Regulators to Open Up More Licensed Spectrum

Wireless carriers often and predictably cite a severe shortage when it comes to the airwaves that cellular networks are built on. This is nothing new, even if in some cases the public posturing is only that; AT&T currently has approximately 40 MHz of unused spectrum and Verizon has been known to hoard spectrum in the past.