Onemax chooses Veraz for IMS/WiMAX 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Caribbean broadband wireless operator Onemax has selected softswitch and media gateway vendor Veraz Networks for deployment of an IP multimedia subsystem-over-WiMAX solution...

Nortel lands WiMAX contract in Quad-Cities 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nortel Networks is laying down a mobile and fixed WiMAX network in the Quad Cities, a group of four cities in western Iowa and eastern Illinois clustered around the Mississippi Riv...

IneoQuest jumps on wireless video quality 

By: By Tim McElligott

Following up on the success of its Video Quality Management System, IneoQuest Technologies this week introduced a new system for reducing network operational expenses related to video deployments that uses multi-dimensional monitoring and analysis technology...

Qualcomm buys assets from WiMAX company 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Qualcomm has bought the system-on-a-chip engineering assets from WiMAX chipset maker TeleCIS Wireless for an undisclosed sum, bolstering its OFDM portfolio and giving Qualcomm a possible Mobile WiMAX portfolio if it chooses to support the technology...

Telsima raises $50 million 

By: By Dan O'Shea

WiMAX access equipment vendor Telsima said it’s raised a mother lode of new funding--$50 million--from existing investors NewPath Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, CMEA Ventures, JAFCO Asia and other strategic investors...

NextWave scoops up IPWireless 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

NextWave Wireless said today it is buying TD-CDMA technology company IPWireless for $100 million, adding the company’s standardized yet niche technology to its growing wireless portfolio...

Chibardun: Loneliest company in WiMAX 

By: By Tim McElligott

You might think many rural providers would be using WiMAX to bring wireless broadband to their hard-to-reach areas. You might be wrong...

CTIA: Moto wins ninth WiMAX deal; launches new BTS 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

ORLANDO--Motorola continued its momentum in the emerging WiMAX sector, announcing today its ninth Mobile WiMAX contract, this one with Chilean operator VTR. It also released a revamped universal base station that will initially carry its CDMA baseband, but will eventually support Motorola’s other radio technologies...

CTIA: Sprint reveals WiMAX details 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

ORLANDO--Sprint today took some of the wraps off its WiMAX plans, announcing more specifics about its rollout plans and named its initial device vendors: Samsung, ZTE and ZyXel. It also officially launched its integrated cable/mobile service bundle, naming the new co-brand service Pivot...

TowerStream expands to Miami 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

TowerStream’s expansion drive continues as the metro broadband wireless access service provider announced today it has launched a fixed WiMAX network in Miami...

Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel grab WiMAX opportunities 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Alcatel-Lucent and Nortel networks each separately announced this week some progress in working with service providers on WiMAX network deployments...

Clearwire IPO nets $600 million 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Clearwire raised $600 million in an initial public offering Wednesday evening, selling 24 million shares at a price of $25 each...

InFocus: Backhaul requirement for WiMAX-enabled services 

By: By Greg Friesen, DragonWave Inc.

Mobile operators are rapidly deploying 4G technologies such as WiMAX in an effort to increase the mobility of high-speed Internet access. This emerging deployment of high-capacity broadband wireless will enable a new set of customer services focused on the convergence of data, video and voice. All of this activity is driving a new set of backhaul requirements to enable these services...

Beceem ties up with Samsung for WiMAX 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Beceem Communications today confirmed its chipset relationship with Samsung, formally announcing what everybody already knew: Beceem is supplying Mobile WiMAX silicon to the Korean vendor...

Yankee: 28 million Mobile WiMAX subs by 2011 

By: By Dan O'Shea

The Yankee Group is forecasting a total of 28 million Mobile WiMAX subscribers by 2011, according to research the agency discussed this week as part of a tele-briefing on the state of the WiMAX industry...

AT&T sells BellSouth 2.5 GHz holds to Clearwire 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

AT&T today said it is selling off former BellSouth broadband wireless spectrum in the Southeast to Clearwire, which is currently deploying a wireless broadband network piece-by-piece across the country that it eventually plans to upgrade to WiMAX...

3GSM: Alvarion touts WiMAX deal at GSM’s biggest party 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--Alvarion thumbed its nose ever so slightly at 3GSM World Congress today, announcing in the middle of GSM’s biggest global event that it had secured a contract for a fixed WiMAX deployment in the Congress’ host city of Barcelona...

3GSM: Nokia, Siemens kick off joint venture ahead of closing 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--Though the financial details of their merger won’t be finalized until later this quarter, Nokia and Siemens used the 3GSM World Congress as a launch pad for their new networks joint venture, unveiling a new logo for the company and revealing aspect of their new product portfolio...

Emulating WiMAX channels for MIMO/SISO 

The WiMAX market may still lack maturity, but if it is ever to become a serious broadband alternative, quality of service will play an important role...

TI, Motorola cooperate on 3G, WiMAX 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Texas Instruments and Motorola today said they have entered into a strategic partnership to develop 3G and WiMAX handsets, using TI silicon and Motorola wireless expertise...

Start-up targets SMS for FMC 

By: By Carol Wilson

In an era of consolidation, start-ups have become rare but Stoke, a venture capital-funded newcomer, is nonetheless going bravely where it thinks no one...

Soma wins 700 MHz contract 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Soma Networks today said it has made one of its first sales of 700 MHz broadband wireless equipment, selling its FlexMAX system to CTC Telecom in Wisconsin to deploy in hard-to-reach and rural areas...

Sprint taps Nokia as third WiMAX vendor 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint today named Nokia as the third infrastructure vendor for its new ‘4G’ mobile broadband network rollout, selecting the WiMAX latecomer from a crowded vendor field all vying for a piece of Sprint’s lucrative multibillion-dollar deployment...

FCC approves AT&T/BellSouth deal 

By: By Dan O'Shea

The FCC has approved AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth following a series of concessions AT&T filed with the agency late Thursday...

Beceem makes grade with Windows 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

While the entire WiMAX industry is eagerly awaiting the first rounds of mobile certification this month, Beceem has sought certification from a more unlikely source: Microsoft...