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Broadband business wireless firm expands to NYC
By Carol Wilson
Its nickname is humble – BOB Broadband – but a new wireless service provider has lofty ambitions for providing wireless services to large businesses, particularly those in financial services, using licensed spectrum...
Sprint to soft-launch WiMAX before Christmas
By Kevin Fitchard
Within the week, Sprint will turn live its WiMAX networks in Chicago and Baltimore-Washington D.C., Sprint officials said today...
Wi-Fi more addictive than coffee?
By Sarah Reedy
Could Wi-Fi be more addictive than coffee? With Wi-Fi chipset sales poised to reach 300 million units this year, the Wi-Fi Alliance and In-Stat think it just may be...
EarthLink backs away from muni Wi-Fi
By Kevin Fitchard
EarthLink’s municipal Wi-Fi business is in tatters, and the Internet service provider itself may pull the plug on the business before too long. On Friday EarthLink Chief Executive Officer Rolla Huff said the company is looking for strategic alternatives to its muni Wi-Fi business...
Wireless still an option for rural broadband
By Carol Wilson
Wi-Fi loses favor in some big cities as the business case implodes...
VON: Motorola fellow describes WiMAX future
By Sarah Reedy
BOSTON--WiMAX is like having DSL in the palm of your hands, and it will soon be a widespread reality, Jaime Borras, corporate vice president and senior fellow for Motorola’s WiMAX, iDEN Advanced Development and Technology Specialty Platforms, Mobile Devices, told the crowd at the VON show today...
The meaning of Xohm
By Kevin Fitchard
Barry West, chief technology officer for Sprint, is fond of joking about what people think is the meaning of Xohm, the name of Sprint's new WiMAX network...
What's Google's interest in wireless?
By Kevin Fitchard
First the Google phone, now its partnership with Sprint -- Google's mobile ambitions are extensive, but how far will the Internet giant go?...
Clearwire goes nomadic
By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire has begun selling laptop PC cards to its broadband access customers in Seattle, allowing them to take their once-fixed Internet connections out into the wider world...
Sprint hires new strategy head; unveils marketing plans
By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today announced that it has hired former BellSouth veteran Keith Cowan to head up planning and new initiatives for the company as well as plans a new marketing campaign to infuse life back into Sprint’s brand...
Nortel lands WiMAX contract in Quad-Cities
By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks is laying down a mobile and fixed WiMAX network in the Quad Cities, a group of four cities in western Iowa and eastern Illinois clustered around the Mississippi Riv...
TowerStream expands to Miami
By Kevin Fitchard
TowerStream’s expansion drive continues as the metro broadband wireless access service provider announced today it has launched a fixed WiMAX network in Miami...
AT&T launches first U.S. Mobile WiMAX network
By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T said today it has been running an under-the-radar commercial Mobile WiMAX network in Pahrump, Nev., since this summer, using the technology to offer fixed broadband services in a market where it current does not offer DSL...
Clearwire launches first major market
By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire has entered its first major metro market, announcing today it has rolled out services in the greater Seattle-Puget Sound area. The metropolitan region covers Seattle, Tacoma and Everett, Wash., and contains roughly 2 million people...
WiMAX World: Sprint targets Chicago, D.C.
By Kevin Fitchard
BOSTON--Sprint is pitting its two initial vendors against one another in a two-city market deployment, assigning Motorola to build the Mobile WiMAX network in its hometown of Chicago and Samsung to the nation’s capitol...
UPDATE: Moto’s Clearwire move stirs WiMAX implications
By Dan O'Shea
Motorola's acquisition of NextNet puts Clearwire on a path to deploy Motorola’s WiMAX gear, and also may have broader significance for a WiMAX community that is anxiously awaiting word from another major service provider--Sprint--about whether or not it will deploy WiMAX....
BellSouth adds broadband wireless markets
By Dan O'Shea
BellSouth, which already offers broadband fixed wireless service in six cities in the southeast, said today it will expand the service into five more markets during the third quarter...
WiMAX meets reality
By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX and WiMAX-like solutions are finally getting beyond all the hype to address real-world applications, though carriers still have to consider what lies ahead on their road maps...
AOL to resell Clearwire service
By Dan O'Shea
Broadband wireless service provider Clearwire and Internet giant AOL have announced an agreement to offer broadband access under the "AOL High Speed - Powered by Clearwire" banner in four of Clearwire's existing markets....
Nextlink revisits shelved spectrum
Dan O'Shea
The first broadband wireless revolution flamed out as quickly as it started. However, another is resurfacing this week, as XO Holdings christens a new broadband wireless subsidiary...
WiMAX positioned for vertical success
By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX is more often mentioned as a potential residential broadband or mobile broadband alternative than it is as an enterprise solution, but there is plenty of reason to believe we'll see a lot of WiMAX in vertical enterprise markets...
WiMAX Forum adds marketing, ops officials
By Dan O'Shea
The WiMAX Forum, which is nearing completion of the first wave of its 802.16 certification program, has hired a broadband wireless industry veteran and a former Intel Corp. official to fill two new marketing and operational positions within the forum. ...
Fast Forward: Sandy Brown, AT&T
At the recent WiMAX World conference, Telephony Editor-in-Chief Jason Meyers talked to Sandy Brown, AT&T's vice president of product management, about the perception of WiMAX, the purpose of the trials and how the technology could be applied...
caymanone deploys SOMA in hurricane alley
By Dan O'Shea
BOSTON--Cayman Islands network operator caymanone and SOMA Networks' announced at the WiMAX World conference here that the carrier is using SOMA's broadband wireless access system to deliver VoIP and other applications to 44,000 customer on three of the Cayman Islands...
