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Research firm blasts mobile WiMAX

Research firm Frost & Sullivan says that unless spectrum auctions and commercial mobile WiMax rollouts (compliant to Wave 2 Phase 2 certification) gather momentum before the end of this year, the Read more...
Tags: WiMAX   LTE  

Comcast will use WiMAX Femtocells

At a conference in London, Comcast's senior vice president of wireless and technology Dave Williams revealed that part of the cable company's deal with Clearwire calls for 5 MHz of spectrum across Read more...

Sprint: Baltimore gets commercial WiMAX in Sept.

Speaking at the WiMAX Forum Global Congress in Amsterdam, Sprint Nextel CTO and president of the company's Xohm WiMAX business, said its first commercial WiMAX service will go live in September in Read more...
Tags: Xohm   WiMAX   Sprint   backhaul  

WiMAX Forum announces long-awaited Wave 2 certification

It's the moment the WiMAX industry has been waiting for. The WiMAX Forum today announced certification for Wave 2 products using MIMO in the 2.5 GHz band. The announcement includes four base stations Read more...

Report: Emerging markets accounted for majority of WiMAX subs in 2007

Pyramid Research says emerging markets accounted for more than 70 percent of the world's WiMAX subscribers in 2007. The firm recently conduct an audit of commercial WiMAX networks across the globe Read more...

Maravedis tackles the idea of a combined WiMAX/LTE standard

Maravedis' Robert Syputa takes on the idea of a merger between WiMAX and LTE standards. Could it really happen? Read more...
Tags: WiMAX   Maravedis   LTE  

Clearwire expects 30 million subs by 2017

Clearwire executives told investors this morning that the "new" Clearwire will have 30 million customers and will generate $17.5 billion in annual revenue by 2017. Scott Richardson, Clearwire chief Read more...

Nortel teams with Alvarion on WiMAX; focus moves to LTE

When it comes to 4G, Nortel Networks is putting its R&D efforts behind LTE and teaming with Alvarion to come up with an end-to-end mobile WiMAX solution. The shift is notable because in the past Read more...

Cisco, Intel others form WiMAX patent pool

Six WiMAX firms have teamed together to create the Open Patent Alliance, a group that's goal is to jointly license WiMAX patents so they can keep royalty rates in check and make the technology more

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Tags: WiMAX   Sprint   IPR   Intel Corp   Clearwire   Cisco   Alcatel  

NextWave, Dmedia team on mobile WiMAX device

NextWave Wireless has joined forces with Taiwan manufacturer Dmedia to produce a mobile WiMAX device that will make its debut in the first half of 2009. Dmedia is a GPS OEM/ODM firm that owns Read more...

Press Releases

Alvarion® Sets Off First Mobile WiMAX™ Internet Service in the U.S.

Tel Aviv, Israel, June 30, 2008 — Alvarion® Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, announced today the commercial rollout Read more...

NGMN Alliance and Femto Forum partner to bring femtocells to the next generation of mobile networks

London/Frankfurt – 26th June 2008 – The Femto Forum, the independent industry association that supports femtocell deployment Read more...

SONUS NETWORKS BRINGS THE POWER OF VOICE OVER BROADBAND TO WIMAX

WESTFORD, MA., June 17, 2008 – At NXTComm 2008, Sonus Networks (Nasdaq: SONS) the market leader in IP communications infrastructure, unveiled a complete voice solution that leverages the power Read more...

Neotel selects Telsima for its WiMAX network in South Africa

SUNNYVALE, California, June 16, 2008 – Telsima Corporation, a global leader in WiMAX systems, announces that Neotel, South Africa’s first converged network operator, has chosen Read more...

WiMAX Forum® announces first certified MIMO 2.5 GHz Mobile WiMAX™ products

AMSTERDAM - June 17, 2008 - The WiMAX Forum today announced the first ten Mobile WiMAX products received the WiMAX Forum CertifiedTM Seal of Approval for the 2.5 GHz profile (titled MP05) at the Read more...