:: WiMax News Archive ::
Was Google Clearwire investment a 'steal'?
By: By Rich Karpinski
We know what Sprint/Clearwire needed: cash to fund a new, massive greenfield WiMAX network. But what did Google, one of the surprise investors in yesterday’s deal, get for its $500 million investment? And was it something that the service providers in the equation should have been so willing to "sell off"?...
Clearwire-Sprint WiMAX deal reborn
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The deal that was lost has now been found. Sprint and Clearwire have resurrected their WiMAX joint venture, this time with the added bonus of a $3.2 billion investment from Google, Intel and three cable companies...
Qwest wireless switch adds another nail to MVNO coffin
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Until Monday the main casualties of the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) fallout have been small boutique operators, but now Qwest Communications is giving up on its virtual operator relationship with Sprint, opting instead to sell the standard Verizon Wireless service available at any cellular kiosk. The MVNO business model isn’t just failing the niche players; it isn’t working for the big retail operators either...
Nortel lays down royalty rate for LTE
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel has always claimed to hold a substantial amount of the intellectual property in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFMA) and multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) smart antenna technology that will power the world’s future 4G networks, but this week it actually put a number to its claims. ...
T-Mobile launches 3G in New York
By: By Kevin Fitchard
New York just gained its fourth 3G network. T-Mobile today said it has turned up its wideband CDMA network in the Big Apple, the first of what the service provider said would be multiple 3G service launches throughout the year....
Breaking down NextWave's licenses
By: By Kevin Fitchard
For the second time in its history, NextWave Wireless is engaging in a massive spectrum sale, clearing out its stores of broadband wireless and mobile licenses in the U.S....
Alcatel-Lucent: As CDMA declines, W-CDMA steps up
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent doubled its sales in Wideband CDMA in the first quarter as the synergies of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies' merged UMTS portfolios begin to emerge, company officials said today...
Big OSS projects moving into production
By: By Rich Karpinski
OSS "transformation" projects are beginning to move off the drawing board and into production, with executives behind those efforts warning colleagues they'll take longer than expected, fail without employee and exec-level buy-in and put greater pressure on IT to contribute to top-line growth, according to service providers at the B/OSS World Show in Chicago....
Towerstream lights up first building
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Towerstream is taking a page from Cogent Communications’ book, announcing today that it is providing a gigabit broadband capacity to the General Motors building in midtown Manhattan, marking the first time it has provided service to an entire building rather than an individual business...
Probe clears Cyren Call in D Block failure
By: By Donny Jackson, MRT
Much-discussed spectrum-lease payments made to potential D Block bidders prior to the 700 MHz auction were not the primary reason the 700 MHz spectrum swath failed to attract a bid that met the FCC’s reserve price, according to a report revealing the findings of a federal investigation of the matter...
VZW: As 3G phones multiply, so do data revenues
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless’ data sales jump 49% as Verizon increases install base of 3G phones to 58%, but AT&T outpaces VZW despite lower 3G penetration...
Barry strikes back
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As Barry West, 4G president and chief technology officer for Sprint, began his keynote address at the Wireless Communications Association's conference, he couldn't help taking a jab at his chosen technology's detractors...
Ericsson North America sales get a boost
By: By Kevin Fitchard
While its overall outlook for mobile infrastructure sales may be flat, Ericsson may have found a bright spot in North America, traditionally the region at the bottom of the vendor’s revenue chart....
NextWave to unload U.S. spectrum
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NextWave plans to sell its U.S. wireless spectrum, ending all pretensions of becoming a mobile operator and allowing the carrier-turned-vendor to focus exclusively on its multi-faceted equipment and software businesses....
Moto looks to WiMAX, simplified phone platforms for future growth
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s mounting losses dominated the financial news in wireless today, but the beleaguered vendor pointed toward two strategic shifts that might ultimately pull the company out of the mire, though neither would likely bare results until 2009 when it plans to split into two separate companies...
Towerstream moves to WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Towerstream is officially embracing WiMAX, shifting its technology in the nation’s largest markets away from propriety broadband wireless gear to the new 4G standard going forward. ...
Backhaul, billing systems delay Xohm launch
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Sprint’s commercial launch of Xohm is being held up by problems in provisioning backhaul and, to a lesser extent, in implementing its unique customer management and billing system, Xohm President and Sprint Chief Technology Officer Barry West said today...
AT&T touts macro-economic defenses
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T countered widespread fears of slow economic trends with growth in first-quarter profits aided by its wireless and wholesale businesses...
Qwest CTO on femtocells, open access and wireless broadband
By: By Ed Gubbins
As the only Bell carrier without a wireless arm, Qwest Communications can claim a unique intersection with the wireless world and a unique view of the technologies and trends now bridging the wireless and wireline worlds. In the first part of a two-part interview, Qwest’s Chief Technology Officer Pieter Poll explores this terrain, lending his views on a range of pertinent technology issues, including femtocells, open access, fixed-mobile convergence, wireless broadband and more...
NSN Still Struggling Under Price Pressures
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In Nokia’s earnings call today, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo summed up the first 12 months of Nokia’s networks joint venture with Siemens in one statement: “Overall progress has been difficult but steady,” he said....
Congress mulls what to do with unclaimed 700 MHz D block
By: By Kevin Fitchard
For the commercial operators participating in the 700 MHz auction, the question of license ownership was settled weeks ago, but for the Public Safety Spectrum Trust, the decisions over a future nationwide wireless emergency networks are just beginning....
Qualcomm the big question mark in 4G cross-licensing
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson have all signed a pact agreeing to the fair cross-licensing of intellectual property they collectively own in building new Long Term Evolution equipment and standards. Qualcomm did not...
Distilling CTIA Wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Searching for a common theme at CTIA Wireless has become a tricky proposition...
WiMAX to the rescue
By: By Joan Engebretson
Independent telcos with CLEC arms are some of the earliest WiMAX adopters -- the reason has more to do with regulations than technology...
First Mobile WiMAX products certified (in Korea)
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMax Forum has certified the first Mobile WiMax products, announcing this week that four base stations and four data cards have received the Forum seal...
