Verizon conducted WiMAX trials with Vodafone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon has conducted WiMAX trials with partner Vodafone as part of its 4G technology selection process, Verizon Communications executive vice president and chief technology officer Dick Lynch said Thursday...
Updated: Verizon taps LTE for 4G, citing scale, global harmonization
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Communications is breaking from the CDMA camp, announcing today that it has selected Long Term Evolution, the 4G technology of competing GSM technologies, as its next-generation network architecture...
Wi-Fi moving beyond the laptop
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Wi-Fi Alliance has seen a record surge in new devices certified under its banner in the last year, but what’s more interesting than just sheer volume is the types of devices seeking the Wi-Fi logo...
EarthLink backs away from muni Wi-Fi
By: 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...
Redline enters U.S. WiMAX market at 3.65 GHz
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Redline Communications said today it is the first WiMAX vendor to receive FCC certification for its equipment in the newly opened 3.65 GHz bands. The certification marks Redline’s entrance into the competitive U.S. market as a WiMAX vendor....
Updated: Sprint, Clearwire kill WiMAX venture; future deal still possible
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The proposed venture that would marry Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMAX assets has been canceled as the two companies were unable to come to terms quickly enough, Clearwire said today...
MWA: Axiom, Freedom4 argue for U.K.-wide WiMAX
By: By Tim McElligott
Freedom4, the go-to-market brand chosen last month by U.K.-based Pipex Wireless, will give users freedom from restricted wireless access...
Broadband at low frequencies
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CTC is using former TV spectrum for broadband and VoIP, and more could follow its lead next year...
Wireless still an option for rural broadband
By: By Carol Wilson
Wi-Fi loses favor in some big cities as the business case implodes...
Sprint still bleeding customers, reduces WiMAX spend
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint’s attempts to reposition itself in the wireless market and improve customer care hadn’t yet born any fruit in the third quarter, as the company shed another 60,000 subscribers, mainly from its Nextel iDEN network...
VON: Motorola fellow describes WiMAX future
By: 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...
Moto returns to profitability, barely
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola ended its two-quarter loss streak this week, posting a slight profit for the third quarter but off of much lower revenue and handset shipments than it had in previous boom years...
Cisco pounces on Navini, enters WiMAX market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After weeks of speculation on a possible WiMAX acquisition, Cisco Systems today announced it would buy Navini Networks and its adaptive beamforming technology for $330 million...
Watching WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The aura around WiMAX has become overpowering of late. Anything that can be ascribed to an access technology has been ascribed to WiMAX: the bridging force of the digital divide, broadband anywhere, Wi-Fi on steroids...
Martin rebuffs VZW’s open access demands
By: By Kevin Fitchard
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin today said he would not give in to Verizon Wireless’ demands to remove the open access requirements from the upcoming 700 MHz auction...
Sprint CEO Forsee resigns
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint chairman and CEO Gary Forsee stepped down today amid growing shareholder pressure over Sprint’s poor financial and operational results and media reports that the company was already in search of a replacement CEO...
The meaning of Xohm
By: 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...
Sequans puffs out its chest
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX World was definitely Motorola's party, but tiny Sequans Communications almost stole the show...
Analyst: Cisco eyeballing Navini
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Is Cisco Systems aiming to become the next big WiMAX vendor? Technology analyst firm Think Equity believes so, and it’s betting Cisco will make its WiMAX move through the acquisition of Navini...
WiMAX World: Muni Wi-Fi far from deceased
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO — Only two years after it made headlines as the hot new thing, municipal Wi-Fi is making headlines again — as a technology trend that is DOA. ...
WiMAX World: Huawei, NextWave hook up for WiMAX testing
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO — Huawei and NextWave said today that they are conducting interoperability trials of Huawei’s base station gear and NextWave’s WiMAX terminal chipsets. ...
WiMAX World: Clearwire warns of spectrum challenge
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO — WiMAX providers such as Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are well-positioned to meet users’ broadband demands in the present and the immediate future, but regulators need to consider future spectrum needs and think twice about dividing available spectrum into smaller chunks in the name of promoting competition, said Scott Richardson, chief strategy officer for Clearwire, to a WiMAX World audience here today. ...
WiMAX World: Nokia names Intel WiMAX chipset vendor
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO — Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia and Intel today said they have entered into a three-way pact wherein Intel’s WiMAX mobility chips will eventually be embedded into Nokia devices to jointly ensure interoperability across the NSN’s infrastructure, Nokia handsets and Intel-powered devices. ...
WiMAX World: Is WiMAX all things to all markets?
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO — WiMAX is technologically and economically positioned to be all broadband things to most markets, Padmasree Warrior, chief technology officer for Motorola, told the WiMAX World audience today. ...
WiMAX World: Barry West’s vision for Xohm
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO — Barry West likes meat. When he’s in a new city, he would be very pleased if his handheld device could alert him to restaurants nearby that shared his culinary interest, while eliminating those unsavory vegetarian places from consideration. ...
