WiMAX sweeping down the plains
By: By Carol Wilson
WiMAX is bringing the first broadband connectivity to rural communities in southeastern Oklahoma, Nortel Networks and three service providers announced today. ...
WiMAX World: Here comes the silicon
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The silicon flowed at WiMAX World this week as several chip-makers unveiled their platforms for future mobile WiMAX gear. ...
VZW, Vodafone jointly exploring LTE
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless is working with part-owner Vodafone on jointly evaluating next-generation, or 4G, network technologies with the aim of converging their technology paths on both sides of the Atlantic...
What's Google's interest in wireless?
By: 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: 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...
The need for speed
By: By Kevin Fitchard
It may not have involved a desolate strip in the desert. There were no ambulances standing by. No one was wearing a crash helmet. But Beceem Communications...
Sprint rewards Samsung with NYC WiMAX build
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Samsung revealed today that Sprint has awarded it the coveted New York City WiMAX contract — a market Sprint officials said it would give to the vendor with the best network performance....
Rethinking WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint's partnership with Clearwire for WiMAX will create an expansive network, blanketing almost every populated area of the country if all goes according to plan. But in exchange for those economies of scale, its speed to market and the optimization of spectrum assets, Sprint is changing up its original business plan...
Sprint offers first glimpse of WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
VIENNA, Va.--Sprint took the wraps off its WiMAX networks today, giving the first live demos of its new mobile broadband technology and revealing a name for the planned service for the first time...
WiMAX looms as muni network option
By: By Carol Wilson
Wireless access in general, and Wi-Fi technology in particular, has been very attractive to municipalities wanting to improve broadband communications for multiple reasons. But as more cities discover Wi-Fi's limitations, they are also looking at other wireless options, namely WiMAX. Read the latest in this series of special reports...
After profits tumble, Sprint sees better days
By: By Carol Wilson
Sprint Nextel saw its second quarter profits fall 95% over the second quarter of 2006, but Sprint Nextel Chairman and CEO Gary Forsee emphasized the company’s position for growth in addressing industry analysts...
WiMAX will threaten incumbents’ bundles
By: By Carol Wilson
Telecom service providers and cable operators are going head to head in assembling quadruple-play service bundles with which they hope to lock up the consumer market. The cable industry has already spent billions to upgrade its networks, while both AT&T and Verizon are now pouring billions into their access networks to be able to deliver video...
WiMAX truly disruptive if marketed well, study says
By: By Carol Wilson
A new study by two industry veterans states that WiMAX technology, if deployed and marketed correctly, is a truly disruptive technology that could unseat the telco-cable duopoly and provide consumer choice in broadband services and devices...
Sprint to buy ZTE WiMAX CPE
By: By Carol Wilson
ZTE USA and Sprint Nextel today announced they have signed a master purchase agreement under which ZTE will supply its WiMAX PC cards and home networking gear to Sprint for its national WiMAX rollout...
NXTcomm highlights
By: A Telephony staff report
The brand new trade show provided a venue for what's next in telecom, including new thinking about the customer experience...
Alcatel-Lucent to build WiMAX in Russia
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent has landed a deal to build a nationwide rural WiMAX access network in the most rural country in the world, Russia. The mammoth deal will put Alcatel-developed Mobile WiMAX gear in 1000 Russian towns by the end of 2008...
Sprint hires new strategy head; unveils marketing plans
By: 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 wins down-under WiMAX deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel has scored its first major WiMAX win, announcing this week that Australian cable provider Austar United Broadband will roll out its base station kit in regions of Australia with low broadband penetration...
NXTcomm: Sprint 4G chief lays out new business model for WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Listening to his keynote address at the FierceMarkets WiMAX Strategies conference, Sprint President of 4G Barry West hardly sounded like an executive with a major wireless carrier. Touting Sprint’s new WiMAX network, he called for an end to handset subsidies, and talked about driving down ARPU for data services and making the new mobile broadband network as inexpensive for the consumer as possible...
WiMAX Forum opens U.S. testing lab
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum said today it is opening its first interoperability and testing lab in the U.S. to complement its facilities in Europe and Asia. AT4, the engineering group that runs the Forum’s validation testing in Spain, is scouting several locations near Reston, Va., which would put the facility right next to Sprint’s own WiMAX research and development facilities...
Report: Sprint looking for WiMAX partner
By: By Kevin Fitchard
According to news reports, Sprint is on the hunt for new funding to build out its WiMAX network and ease investor concern about the costs of such a capital-intensive project...
WiMAX Forum launches training program
By: By Dan O'Shea
The WiMAX Forum, with partners DoceoTech Inc. and Informa Telecoms & Media, has launched the WiMAX Forum Certified Training Program, a series of education programs designed to help both business and technical audiences in the process of learning about or deploying WiMAX...
Moto adds Symbol WLAN technology to portfolio
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola is expanding its MOTOWi4 family of access products to include indoor WLAN technology, incorporating the recently acquired Symbol Technologies enterprise wireless portfolio into the business unit...
WiMAX Forum kicks off MIMO plugfest
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum is conducting its 3rd WiMAX plugfest in Sophia Antipolis, France, this time testing the smart antenna technologies that will make up the second phase of the Forum’s certification rounds...
