<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:15px;"> <div style="font-weight:normal;font-size:15px;" style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cnet/tcoc/~3/nu5V82RKqV4/" target="_blank">Motorola to kick off Xoom 4G LTE upgrade?</a><BR><i>[ Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:26:00 PDT ]</i><BR><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20097757-94/motorola-to-kick-off-xoom-4g-lte-upgrade/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=image"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/08/26/motorola_452x374_270x223.jpg" alt="" /></a></div><p>Motorola will start upgrading existing <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/motorola-xoom/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=embed" >Xoom tablet</a> owners to 4G LTE within the next week, but the initial pilot program will target only business and government customers, says enthusiast site <a href="http://www.droid-life.com/2011/08/24/xoom-4g-lte-upgrades-set-to-begin-business-and-government-users-up-first-in-pilot-group/">Droid Life</a>.</p>

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<p class="image-caption">Is Motorola starting its 4G LTE upgrade for the Xoom?</p>
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<p>According to an e-mail reportedly received by a Droid Life reader, Motorola is "piloting" the initial upgrade just to business and government customers before it starts rolling out 4G en masse to individual Xoom owners.</p>
<p>In late July, Verizon confirmed that the Xoom's <a title="Xoom to get 4G hookup in September -- Tuesday, Jul 26, 2011" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20083777-94/xoom-to-get-4g-hookup-in-september/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=embed">4G LTE upgrade would kick off sometime in September</a> following several months of delays. As reported earlier this year, the <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-20035818-251.html?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=embed">upgrade to 4G is free</a>, but the process requires Xoom owners to mail back their tablets for a hardware retrofit.</p>
<p>Earlier instructions had directed users to mail their tablets back to Verizon. But the e-mail posted by Droid Life instead is telling Xoom business and government owners to send their tablet... <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20097757-94/motorola-to-kick-off-xoom-4g-lte-upgrade/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=readMore">[Read more]</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cnet/tcoc/~4/nu5V82RKqV4" height="1" width="1"/>
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