Still crazy after all these years?
By: By Carol Wilson
I first met Victor Schnee in the early 1990s, when he was proposed the then-outrageous idea that the incumbent telephone companies should be divided into separate retail and wholesale units. This was not even the first of his wild thinking -- in 1976, he and co-author Walter Gorkiewicz had forecast the breakup of AT&T in a massive study, “The Future of AT&T.”...
Wrestling with open access
By: By Kevin Fitchard
FCC chairman Kevin Martin has created quite a controversy with his comments over open access rules applying to the upcoming 700 MHz auction...
A cooling process
By: Dan O'Shea
It may not be NXTcomm--or at least what NXTcomm’s planners propose it will be--but WiMAX World is an impressive little conference and expo coming into its own just as the WiMAX market is coming into its own. ...
The WiMAX race has begun
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX World kicks off today here, and the titillation in the air is just powerful. No other technology has been hyped more than Mobile WiMAX in recent years, but for the first time the exhibitors and other assorted boosters...
Calling a WiMAX winner
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Mobile WiMAX race is on. There's still a question as to how big the potential market for the technology will be, but a lot of big vendors seem to be betting that it will be huge. ...
Auction blocked
By: By Dan O'Shea
The ongoing Advanced Wireless Services auction could have been an occasion for the WiMAX community to further rejoice over an opportunity to gain more usable spectrum, but the truth is that anyone thinking about deploying WiMAX never really had a fighting chance to win spectrum in the AWS auction. ...
What's next for Sprint
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The shake-up at Sprint is beginning. Chief Operating Officer Len Lauer said last night he's leaving the ailing operator after working with the company for eight years. Sprint has reported some punishing results since it acquired Nextel last year, and even though its executive team has some ambitious plans for the wireless operator's future, it's questionable whether they'll be around to execute those plans. ...
Risk and reward
By: DAN O'SHEA
Bankruptcy, one way or another, usually is a CEO killer. Not many CEOs have followed companies into bankruptcy, guided them throughout the recovery process, emerged from the process still at the helm and continued to stay on as the specter of bankruptcy has faded further into the past...
What is 4G?
By: By Dan O’Shea
U.S. mobile carrier giant Sprint announced this week that it has chosen Mobile WiMAX as the technology for its 4G network evolution, thereby helping make Mobile WiMAX synonymous with 4G. But what exactly is 4G? ...
What WiMAX was waiting for
By: By Dan O’Shea
The WiMAX sector got what it was waiting for, the decision by Sprint to deploy Mobile WiMAX over other technology contenders. But, it also got what it really wanted most--a big U.S. mobile carrier stepping up to a microphone ...
Motorola's WiMAX bets pay off
By: By Kevin Fitchard
It looks like WiMAX is here to stay. In just a few short weeks it's gone from a technology with a question mark hanging over its head to the mobile broadband choice for any carrier with spectrum to throw at it. ...
Wireless time coming
By: By Carol Wilson
In the 21 years I've covered telecom, I've seen fixed wireless access technology burst onto the market on multiple occasions...
Analyzing the mesh alternative
By: By Matthew Dinsmore
In the effort to make high-speed access available to more people in more places, municipal Wi-Fi networks using meshed Wi-Fi technology are gaining trction in the U.S. Philadelphia has announced details of its planned partnership with EarthLink, and numerous other cities, such as San Francisco and Boston, are seriously considering similar initiatives...
Cities get smarter
By: By Carol Wilson
Wireless is rapidly becoming the access technology of choice for municipal networks...
WiMAX, part 2
By: By Dan O'Shea
The 3GSM World Congress is being held in Barcelona, Spain, this week, and there certainly has been big mobile news, with Skype partnering with Hutchison, Nokia taking a different tack on CDMA with a new joint venture and other announcements. However, WiMAX, the pesky, still-wannabe broadband contender, also has sneaked onto this grand stage...
Markets and micro-markets
By: BY NEALE MARTIN
Communications companies are embarking on a bold, expensive plan to re-create themselves to serve customers in the 21st century...
Applying WiMAX
By: By Jason Meyers
At the WiMAX World conference in Boston last week, ongoing discussion of the broadband wireless technology's certification proceedings and spectrum availability around the world was joined by much more exploration of the potential WiMAX has to be used in various settings and with various customer segments...
More knocks for WiMAX
By: By Jason Meyers
What do you get when you put four influential carrier executives on a panel together at a trade show and ask them about their commitments to a fledgling access technology? Another potential setback in the technology's struggle to improve the way it is perceived in the industry...
Inside the world of WiMAX
By: As told to Jason Meyers
Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum, talked to Telephony about the testing process, shifting market dynamics and the future of WiMAX technology...
WiBro and the standards game
By: By Kevin Fitchard
When does a standard officially become a standard? Does a loose collection of vendors and a government getting behind a technology and issuing some guidelines equate to one? Well, the South Koreans seem to think so...
Why we must wait
By: By Jason Meyers
I wrote a column in the most recent print edition of Telephony stating that one of unfortunate consequences of the telecom industry's financial bust was a loss in confidence about new technology. Confidence was replaced, I wrote, by widespread cynicism about innovation...
Getting the WiMAX story straight
By: By Kevin Fitchard
There seems to be some discontent roiling in the ranks of the WiMAX Forum's membership...
The gathering storm
By: By Jason Meyers
There's an article on the WiMAX Trends site by Robert Syputa, senior analyst for Maravedis, that I wish I had written. I like it because it cuts through the bull that most of the wireless industry pitches on the issue of whether broadband wireless technologies like WiMAX, particularly in the mobile format for which it is destined, will be competitive with high-speed cellular data platforms such as EV-DO...
WiMAX gets teeth
By: By Jason Meyers
When we published the first edition of The Complete Guide to WiMAX, WiMAX technology was new, unproven and the subject of much doubt and uncertainty...
The future of WiMAX
By: By Lindsay Schroth
With all the attention surrounding WiMAX, industry observers struggle to separate hype from reality...
