Nortel talks R&D, margin strategy
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks and its CEO Mike Zafirovski (above) gave an update on its plans to overhaul its business today, including how it will distribute research and development spending and how it will raise operating margins...
Clearwire registers for IPO
By: By Dan O'Shea
Clearwire, the broadband wireless service provider founded by mobile pioneer Craig McCaw, is about to find out if Wall Street can fall in love for a second time with broadband fixed wireless firms. ...
AT&T expands broadband reach
By: By Carol Wilson and Dan O'Shea
AT&T is expanding its trials of fixed broadband wireless technology, launching test sites in Nevada and Texas, AT&T Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre announced today....
CHIPMAKER DANCES AROUND MOBILE WIMAX
By: By Dan O'Shea
Fujitsu Microelectronics America made a big impression on the WiMAX community in April 2005, when it hosted a press conference at Broadband Wireless World...
Fixed wireless back in favor
By: By Dan O'Shea
Backhaul blues and fixed/portable fuel a fixed wireless resurgence, as mobile WiMAX remains distant...
AOL to resell Clearwire service
By: By Dan O'Shea
Broadband wireless service provider Clearwire and Internet giant AOL have announced an agreement to offer broadband access under the "AOL High Speed - Powered by Clearwire" banner in four of Clearwire's existing markets....
Symbol builds unified RFID-WLAN switch
By: By Kevin Fitchard
This week at Interop, Symbol Technologies introduced a multi-access RF switching platform that integrates WLAN and RFID along with other data and voice access technology....
Terabeam posts loss, eyes Ricochet deal
By: By Dan O'Shea
Terabeam, the one-time free space optics juggernaut that has lately been more focused on WiMAX, announced a first quarter net loss of $4.5 million, and first quarter revenue that was down 32% from the previous quarter. ...
BBW: Proxim targets municipalities
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Proxim Wireless announced at the Broadband Wireless World conference here that it is launching a new family of outdoor, dual-radio Wi-Fi mesh access points for the municipal wireless network market, as well as a grant program that encourages further municipal project development....
UPDATED: SOMA licenses Qualcomm's OFDM patents
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--SOMA Networks, exhibiting at the Broadband Wireless World conference here, said it has signed an agreement with Qualcomm to license the company's OFDM/OFDMA patents....
BBW: Fixed WiMAX not forgotten
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Have reports of the death of Fixed WiMAX been greatly exaggerated? Visiting the Broadband Wireless World conference here this week would lead one to believe that's the case. ...
Aperto offers WiMAX planning
By: By Dan O'Shea
Aperto Networks, one day in advance of the Broadband Wireless World conference in Las Vegas, has announced a marketing relationship with EDX Wireless to offer a network planning tool to WiMAX service providers to help them design, deploy, and optimize their WiMAX networks, the companies said in a statement...
TeleCIS boasts fixed/portable WiMAX chip
By: By Dan O'Shea
Chip developer TeleCIS Wireless jumped out ahead of the Broadband Wireless World conference to be held later this week in Las Vegas with its introduction of Fixed WiMAX chip intended for self-installed customer premises equipment, including PC cards and USB devices that could be used in nomadic applications. ...
MIMO on the march
By: By Dan O'Shea
Mobility isn't the only reason why the industry likes Mobile WiMAX. Another reason is that multiple input/multiple output and other technologies will provide more capacity and other enhancements beyond what Fixed WiMAX provides now...
Nextlink revisits shelved spectrum
By: Dan O'Shea
The first broadband wireless revolution flamed out as quickly as it started. However, another is resurfacing this week, as XO Holdings christens a new broadband wireless subsidiary...
Milwaukee Public Schools eye WiMAX
By: By Carol Wilson
The Milwaukee Public Schools district is considering using WiMAX to deliver high-speed Internet access to students whose families can’t afford a phone line or are moving too frequently to maintain a wireline connection...
WiMAX vendor Beceem lands DoCoMo dollars
By: By Dan O'Shea
Beceem Communications, a developer of Mobile WiMAX chipsets, announced that it has received an investment from DoCoMo Capital, the venture capital arm of NTT DoCoMo. The amount of the financing was not disclosed. ...
Aperto raises $26 million
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX system and CPE supplier Aperto Networks announced that it has completed a Series E follow-on financing round in which it raised $26 million from several investors, including new investor GunnAllen Venture Partners....
CTIA: Mobile WiMAX in Muskegon?
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--As the CTIA's Wireless 2006 trade show was winding down here, Samsung Telecommunications America turned a few of the remaining heads with an announcement that it will work with regional service provider Arialink in Michigan to deploy what it claimed could be the first commercial Mobile WiMAX network in North America...
CTIA: NEC America announces WiMAX system
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--NEC America's WiMAX system didn't make it to the show floor on time because of a shipping snafu, but the company showed up at CTIA's Wireless 2006 here ready to unveil its strategy for the WiMAX market...
CTIA: Aperto powers ADC's WiMAX move
By: By Dan O'Shea
ADC has added a Fixed WiMAX product to its existing Digivance wireless portfolio through an OEM agreement with system vendor Aperto Networks, one of the few companies with a WiMAX Forum-Certified system....
CTIA: Alvarion sets Mobile WiMAX demo
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Broadband wireless access vendor Alvarion announced at Wireless 2006 here that it will be demonstrating its new 4Motion Mobile WiMAX solution during the event. The demonstration will feature dynamic bandwidth allocation to multiple services and seamless hand-offs. ...
CTIA: Accuris adds FMC to roaming platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mobile roaming solutions provider Accuris is launching at CTIA Wireless a new session initiation protocol-infused version of its AccuRoam platform that effectively turns its roaming management platform into a standards-based fixed/mobile convergence gateway....
WiMAX Forum certifies more 3.5 GHz products
By: By Dan O'Shea
The WiMAX Forum announced that it seven more products from five different vendors have successfully completed WiMAX Forum Certified testing for the Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) system profile operating in the 3.5GHz frequency spectrum...
TELECOMNEXT: BellSouth offers wireless back-up app
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--BellSouth announced a new wireless broadband application at TelecomNext here that will give users of wireline data services a wireless back up to those services, as well as allow them to activate a Wi-Fi hotspot at their business location....
