Nortel wins first WiMAX deal 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nortel Networks today announced its first Mobile WiMAX contract with Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan to build a mobile broadband network in Yilan County, directly south of capital city Taipei...

Motorola invests in Sequans 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Motorola Ventures has invested in WiMAX semiconductor firm Sequans Communications, the mobile vendor giant’s latest WiMAX move in a year that already has seen Motorola acquire equipment supplier NextNet Wireless and earn WiMAX deployment projects with Clearwire and Sprint...

AT&T launches first U.S. Mobile WiMAX network 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

AT&T said today it has been running an under-the-radar commercial Mobile WiMAX network in Pahrump, Nev., since this summer, using the technology to offer fixed broadband services in a market where it current does not offer DSL...

Clearwire launches first major market 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Clearwire has entered its first major metro market, announcing today it has rolled out services in the greater Seattle-Puget Sound area. The metropolitan region covers Seattle, Tacoma and Everett, Wash., and contains roughly 2 million people...

A Telephony Podcast: WiMAX World 2006 

Telephony editors were on site at WiMAX World in Boston last week to cover new developments in the broadband wireless sector. Hear excerpts from live interviews with industry analysts and the WiMAX Forum about recent developments in the WiMAX community and what the future holds...

WiMAX World briefs: Proxim sells fixed WiMAX network in Taiwan 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Airspan Networks is commencing shipments this quarter of its new HiperMAX base station supporting both fixed and mobile iterations of WiMAX...

WiMAX World: Sprint targets Chicago, D.C. 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BOSTON--Sprint is pitting its two initial vendors against one another in a two-city market deployment, assigning Motorola to build the Mobile WiMAX network in its hometown of Chicago and Samsung to the nation’s capitol...

WiMAX World: Resnick reveals IPR findings 

By: By Dan O'Shea

BOSTON--WiMAX Forum President Ron Resnick, in a Thursday morning keynote at WiMAX World here, said a study the WiMAX Forum commissioned to determine how the intellectual property rights for WiMAX technology were distributed throughout the industry found that no single company is in a dominant patent ownership position...

WiMAX World: Nokia unveils WiMAX plans 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BOSTON--Nokia today shined some light through its until-now opaque WiMAX strategy, revealing a new base station based on its modular Flexi equipment line and a new initiative to pursue Mobile WiMAX handsets focused on a data centric applications...

WiMAX World: Nortel launches MIMO base station 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BOSTON--Nortel Networks commercially launched its smart-antenna powered base station at WiMAX World this week, saying it eschewed the first round of WiMAX Forum certification in order to focus on the more advanced wave of next-generation WiMAX technologies next summer...

ZTE: The Outsider 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

ZTE is a mystery. Nobody in this industry is quite sure what the Chinese vendor is up to. It and its fellow countryman, Huawei, have had substantial success in branching outside of their home markets, selling telecom equipment at lower margins to operators in developing countries and even some in the developed world. But otherwise ZTE remains opaque--a shadowy threat from the east. This article is part six of a six-part online series...

WiMAX World: The quiet one speaks 

By: By Dan O'Shea

BOSTON--Broadband wireless service provider Clearwire has, by extension but also by its own design, acquired the reclusive reputation of its founder, Craig McCaw. But, with an increasingly aggressive market rollout and extroverted partners like Motorola and Intel, it has no place left to hide...

WiMAX World: Navini mixes beamforming, MIMO 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BOSTON--Navini isn’t taking sides in the smart antenna debate. While other vendors tout their Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) and beamforming antenna technologies, Navini is incorporating both technologies into its new Mobile WiMAX gear...

Samsung: The Teacher’s Pet 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Like the kid who brings the apple to class and raises his hand at every question, Samsung is doing everything conceivable to draw attention to its WiMAX portfolio. While other vendors set commercial availability dates for their WiMAX base stations, Samsung points to the commercial WiBro network up and running in Korea. This article is part five of a six-part online series...

WiMAX World: Soma to use Sequans chips 

By: By Dan O'Shea

BOSTON--Broadband wireless equipment vendor Soma Networks announced today--while 2006 WiMAX World pre-conference workshops were going in advance of tomorrow's show opening--that it will integrate 802.16e-2005 chipsets from Sequans Communications into its Mobile WiMAX products...

Fujitsu does WiMAX infrastructure 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Fujitsu is expanding its interest in WiMAX from chipsets to a complete radio access infrastructure line, unveiling today a Mobile WiMAX base station portfolio targeted at the North American market...

Alcatel: The Overachiever 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

If WiMAX were a science fair, Alcatel is striving to take first place. It doesn’t just want the ribbon and the pat on the back, it wants to run away with the prize, creating the perfect project that judges will moon over while the rest of the kids shuffle awkwardly in front of their paper-mache volcanoes and electromagnets. This article is part four of a six-part online series...

Alvarion: The Pipsqueak 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

The run-away leader in WiMAX’s first, fixed-wireless iteration, Alvarion has a global market share of 81%, according to Sky Light Research. But now that Tier 1 infrastructure vendors have chosen to enter the market with Mobile WiMAX products, Alvarion has suddenly relocated to a very big pond, where it’s not only a small fish--it’s swimming against barracuda. This article is part three of a six-part online series...

Nortel: The Lab Rat 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nortel Networks is aching for a rumble. Or, to use Nortel’s new WiMAX general manager Peter MacKinnon’s more domestic imagery, it’s ready to pit its WiMAX gear against any other vendors in a “competitive bake-off” to see whose is superior. Part two of a six-part online series...

Motorola: The College Boy 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

If any vendor can claim to have momentum on Mobile WiMAX, it’s Motorola. Not only did it come away with a major piece of Sprint’s multibillion-dollar deployment, it’s guaranteed itself a sizable slot of the wireless ISP business with its investment in Clearwire. For good measure it’s even landed a few smaller WiMAX contracts worldwide, including one for a national broadband network in Pakistan. Part one in a six part online series...

ABI: DBS/WiMAX partnerships? 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Wireless DBS, the bidding entity backed by DirecTV and Echostar, among others, may have dropped out of contention for spectrum licenses in the Advanced Wireless Services auction, but these companies still potentially could partner with WiMAX service providers to launch mobile-like services, according to ABI Research....

Sprint WiMAX choice a mixed bag for vendors 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint’s decision to launch a nationwide Mobile WiMAX network may not have shaken up wireless vendors yet, but it certainly gave them a rattle...

WiMAX move adds new wrinkle 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Will Sprint's decision to adopt WiMAX alter the evolution of mobile networks?...

Update: Sprint embraces WiMAX 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint today revealed it has selected Mobile WiMAX as the technology to power its next-generation “4G” mobile broadband networks, announcing both Motorola and Samsung as its major infrastructure vendors...

Earthlink muni-nets gain Ethernet backhaul 

By: By Dan O'Shea

EarthLink has rounded out its network backhaul scheme for the municipal wireless networks it is building in Philadelphia, New Orleans and other cities, having announced a partnership this week with broadband wireless vendor DragonWave to provide Ethernet-based backhaul from towers and building rooftops. ...