:: WiMax News Archive ::
Clearwire the big kahuna in broadband wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire is by far the largest broadband wireless access provider in the world, according to Maravedis, which recently performed a subscriber count of all of global WiMAX and proprietary BWA networks....
DigitalBridge WiMAX goes mobile in Wyoming
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Earlier this month the first WiMAX network in the US to support true mobility went live commercially, but it wasn’t a Sprint or Clearwire network. DigitalBridge Communications gains that honor...
Skyhook goes hybrid
By: By Sarah Reedy
Now that Wi-Fi location pioneer Skyhook Wireless has added GPS satellites and cell towers to the mix, mobile handset owners can map locations whether...
What happened in Vegas
By: By Carol Wilson
NXTcomm08 had hoped to establish itself as the telecom industry's premiere event, replacing Supercomm and its successor shows. Under a very hot Las Vegas...
Alltel upgrades 3G networks for fast uploads
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alltel today said it would begin to upgrade its 3G EV-DO network from revision 0 to revision A, adding upstream capacity and lower latency to the broadband network in select markets....
NXTcomm08: Breaking the Internet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Internet is going to break—at least that’s what half of the people polled by Tellabs and IDC on the NXTcomm08 show floor believe. ...
NXTcomm08: Sprint to turn up Baltimore WiMAX network in September
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LAS VEGAS--Sprint will commercially launch its first WiMAX market in September in Baltimore and turn up service in its two other trial markets, Chicago and Washington, D.C., before the end of the year, said Sprint CEO Dan Hesse during his keynote address at NXTcomm08....
It’s official: First certified WiMAX gear arrives
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum today officially released the names of the first WiMAX base stations and subscriber modules to pass certification muster, marking the first time that fully standardized Mobile WiMAX products have been available to the global marketplace...
Beyond fixed/mobile convergence
By: By Joan Engebretson
Designed to support FMC services, femtocells are set to transform the way wireless networks are built...
Nortel to resell Alvarion WiMAX gear, refocuses on LTE
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel is abandoning its WiMAX radio access platform, choosing instead to focus its 4G expertise on the burgeoning Long Term Evolution market....
Moto targets US, Europe for LTE
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola said today it plans to initially build its Long Term Evolution platform for the 700-MHz and 2.6-GHz frequencies, targeting spectrum held by major US and European cellular operators....
Vendors, U.S. operators target WiMAX IPR
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Six vendors and operators have agreed to collectively pool their patents related to WiMAX in an effort to create a transparent intellectual property environment that encourages the WiMAX embedded devices market....
Apple launches iPhone 2.0
By: By Sarah Reedy
Following a year of speculation, iPhone 3G was officially launched today at half the price and with a slew of new applications and features. ...
Sprint taps Bridgewater for Xohm security
By: By Rich Karpinski
Sprint this week said it will use network access control technology from Bridgewater Systems to control access to its planned Xohm WiMAX network...
NextWave wins first MXtv trial
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NextWave Wireless has received its first bite on its new WiMAX TV platform, announcing Tuesday that Taiwan’s Global Mobile will deploy NextWave’s V5 base station and accompanying MXtv platform in the capital city...
WiMAX Summit: Don’t believe (or create) the hype
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If the WiMAX industry can learn anything from the mistakes of its 4G predecessors, it’s that overhyping a new technology can be dangerous...
Truphone intercepts global mobile calls
By: By Rich Karpinski
Alternative mobile service provider Truphone launched a service today that automatically “re-routes” international calls that begin on incumbent operator networks and delivers them via the Internet and the Truphone network...
Sprint Clearwire JV has broad implications
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint and Clearwire’s renewed engagement didn’t just boost WiMAX’s profile in the U.S. According to global vendors, it enormously benefited WiMAX worldwide, giving operators who were on the fence about WiMAX the confidence to deploy their networks...
Femto Forum lays down femtocell law
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In attempt to apply order to an increasingly fractured technology, the femtocell community has agreed to lay down a single standard for the interfaces between elements in the femtocell architecture, a move intended to make any femtocell compatible with any network...
AT&T nears completion of HSUPA rollout
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T is six markets away from completing a network upgrade that will give its 3G network broadband upload speeds to match its broadband download speeds...
NXTcomm 2008: Everything under the sun
By: By Telephony Staff
With a high-powered keynote schedule and slew of exhibitors representing the latest technology trends, telecom's mega-event is set to sizzle in Las Vegas...
Dumbing up the network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX networks have the potential to open up wireless data to a new realm of connected devices: millions of sensors, vehicles and smart content-distribution points. The keyword is "potential," though -- at least that's wireless software-maker Proximetry's stance...
Is a 4G race beginning?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After months of worry about the future of their WiMAX networks, Clearwire and Sprint are now set thanks to a $3.2 billion investment from Google, Intel and a handful of cable operators...
AWS band finally spreading its wings
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Eighteen months after the close of Auction 66, operators have begun aggressive network rollouts in the first new mobile spectrum band since PCS...
Alltel looks to LTE, but over which spectrum?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Long Term Evolution is in Alltel’s future, though that future is still a long way off. Alltel said today that it has chosen LTE over rival WiMAX, but it hasn’t formulated any specific deployment plans or looked at funding options...
