Digicel eyes WiMAX, new markets
By: By Dan O'Shea
Caribbean service provider Digicel Group ended 2005 with a flurry of activity, having launched pre-WiMAX service in the Cayman Islands and having closed acquisitions of spectrum licenses that will allow the carrier to enter new markets in the new year. ...
SK Telecom, Wavesat partner on WiBro
By: By Dan O'Shea
South Korea's SK Telecom and broadband wireless chipmaker Wavesat have engaged in what the companies described as a "multi-million dollar agreement" to develop a system-on-a-chip based on WiBro...
Muni wireless boom just beginning
By: By Carol Wilson
The coming year is likely to see a boom in municipal Wi-Fi deployment, as technology and political realities converge...
WiMAX certification announcement nears
By: By Dan O'Shea
The WiMAX Forum will not announce its first WiMAX Forum-Certified products by the end of 2005, the goal the forum has been targeting in public statements. ...
WiMAX Forum adds marketing, ops officials
By: 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. ...
InFocus: How carriers will deploy WiMAX
By: By Cyrus Irani
Carriers and service providers will take different approaches to deploying WiMAX, just as they have with Wi-Fi...
Latest WiMAX-related funding: Telsima
By: By Dan O'Shea
Telsima, a vendor of broadband wireless systems and a principal member of the WiMAX Forum, has announced the latest in a recent string of funding agreements from multiple vendors that are funneling more money into the WiMAX sector...
In-Stat: WiMAX chip market still uncertain
By: By Dan O'Shea
The new "Wireless Superchips" market research report by In-Stat provides for one growth scenario under which the WiMAX chipset market could be worth $950 million by 2009, but also allows for a more conservative possible growth track to about $450 million by 2009...
Samsung Ventures invests in 802.16e chip firm
By: By Dan O'Shea
Samsung Ventures America, the U.S. based venture capital investment arm for Samsung Venture Investment Corporation (SVIC), has invested $20 million in Beceem Communications, a developer of 802.16e Mobile WiMAX chipsets. ...
802.16E WiMAX standard takes 'huge step'
By: By Dan O'Shea
The IEEE ratified the 802.16e standard last week...
Alcatel, KT to test WiMAX in Seoul
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel today said it is opening a testing facility in Seoul, South Korea, with carrier KT to conduct tests of its new WiMAX and WiBRO equipment...
802.16e standard finalized
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The IEEE today approved the 802.16e standard setting the stage for the first Mobile WiMAX products due out by 2007...
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...
WiMAX Forum, Global Summit host interop demos
By: By Dan O'Shea
Companies attending the WiMAX Forum quarterly member meeting and the Global WiMAX Summit in Beijing, China, this week reported that about 13 vendors participated in the forum's second interoperability plugfest...
caymanone deploys SOMA in hurricane alley
By: 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...
KT, Samsung prepare WiBro for APEC demo
By: By Dan O'Shea
BOSTON--Samsung announced a new WiBro phone this week that will be part of Korea Telecom's demonstration of the technology at the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation IT summit and exhibition in Busan, Korea...
Motorola, Intel align to push 802.16e
By: By Dan O'Shea
BOSTON--Motorola and Intel announced at the WiMAX World conference here that they would work together to promote 802.16e Mobile WiMAX standardization and interoperability efforts...
WiMAX Forum plans Beijing plugfest; KT joins board
By: By Dan O'Shea
BOSTON--The WiMax Forum announced at the WiMAX World Conference here that it has scheduled its second interoperability plugfest of WiMAX equipment for next week in Beijing, China...
Bell CTOs: WiMAX lacks spectrum
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Spectrum and standardization issues are keeping WiMAX off the deployment schedule of the Bell companies, their CTOs agreed at a Monday Telecom ’05 panel discussion...
WiMAX Forum to clarify specs for certification test waves
By: By Jason Meyers
Quality-of-service functionality not part of first phase of testing...
Andrew announces multi-port array antenna family
By: By Dan O'Shea
Andrew Corporation has introduced its Multi-Port Array Antennas product line, designed for WiMAX and OFDM mobility systems that employ multiple antenna options such as multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) and adaptive antenna systems...
Nokia completes mobile WiMAX data call
By: By Carol Wilson
Nokia today announced that its researchers in Germany have completed a data call over its mobile WiMAX 802.16e technology development system....
WiMAX makes a mesh
By: By Dan O'Shea
Recently announced product plans from two vendors indicate where the mesh network architectures popular in municipal Wi-Fi buildouts are headed and what role WiMAX will play in their future...
Study: WiMAX a $3.5 billion market in 2010
By: By Dan O'Shea
A new market research report published by IDATE and offered by Alexander Resources suggests that by 2010, WiMAX will represent a global market of about $3.5 billion, and will account for 4% of all broadband usage worldwide...
COMPTEL: Indiana Fiber Works signs on with GigaBeam
By: By Carol Wilson
Indiana Fiber Works, a dark-fiber access provider in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois, has teamed up with GigaBeam and will purchase 12 of its WiFiber wireless systems from that company to deliver Gigabit services over wireless access and backhaul links. This marks GigaBeam’s first announced CLEC customer....
