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• Preview: LG Optimus LTE2

  The LG Optimus LTE2 is the first smartphone to come with 2GB of RAM.

• With Verizon pushing more into data caps, Sprint touts unlimited option

  If you're a Verizon customer upset that your next smartphone contract won't include unlimited data, Sprint would like to remind you that you have an alternative.

• Verizon not launching voice over LTE anytime soon

  NEW ORLEANS -- Verizon may be heavily promoting LTE for data, but that doesn't mean it's going to start pushing it for voice services anytime soon.

• Wi-Fi Alliance's Passpoint program on track for June certifications

  NEW ORLEANS -- The Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint Program, which aims to make Wi-Fi hotspots work more like cellular and LTE networks, is on track to start issuing certifications this summer.

• Gartner: Multi-device wireless plans on the way

  The days of having to pay for two separate data plans for your smartphone and tablet may soon be at an end, says Gartner analyst Hughes De La Vergne.

• Verizon promoting LTE as home broadband alternative

  If you've ever dreamed of using Verizon's LTE network as your home broadband connection, now you can.

• Watch out Apple: Samsung, Qualcomm positioned to dominate LTE patent wars

  Although most smartphone patent disputes so far have revolved around mobile operating systems, you can expect a lot more suits to focus on LTE technologies in coming months.

• CTIA 2012 preview: Expect lots of spectrum talk

  In case you haven't heard yet, the nation's wireless carriers want more spectrum.

• 2012: The year LTE becomes a standard, not a luxury

  The mobile industry may well remember 2012 as the year when LTE became the dominant wireless technology in the United States.

• New Verizon service brings LTE to private IP networks

  Verizon Business is now offering its customers the ability to have their LTE devices route traffic directly to their private IP networks instead of through the public Internet.

• T-Mobile leaps at LTE spectrum swap opportunity

  T-Mobile has entered into a spectrum-swapping deal with Leap Wireless that will solidify the carrier's spectrum position in four states.

• The new iPad: A roundup of post-release news

  To help you filter through all of the iPad-related headlines floating around the tech press today, we've created a compilation that will keep you up-to-date on the latest developments:

• AT&T on iPad tethering: We're working on it

  Although AT&T and Verizon both offer comparable plans for the new iPad, there's one feature that AT&T is still lacking: tethering.

• FCC asks Verizon for more data on plans to use acquired spectrum

  The Federal Communications Commission today asked Verizon to deliver a wide range of information on its spectrum holdings and its attempts to buy spectrum licenses from major cable companies.

• Sprint, T-Mobile tell FCC to put brakes on Verizon spectrum deal

  Verizon's proposed spectrum deal with major cable companies came under more criticism today as a broad range of companies and public interest groups asked the Federal Communications Commission to halt proceedings on the deal.