WiMAX News Archives

As businesses and individuals continue to look for cost savings options, Mobile VoIP, the delivery of Voice over IP via a mobile handset, is becoming a hot commodity.

Clearwire hopes to leapfrog Verizon Wireless and AT&T by offering a 4G mobile service using Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access technology.

China Voice Holding Corporation , announced today that its China subsidiary, Beijing CandidSoft Technology Co.

Released by broadband wireless vendor Alvarion, the BreezeMAX Extreme 5000 product set includes Single Input Single Output and Multiple Input Multiple Output A and B variants ensuring high-capacity broadband provision is made possible in densely populated urban, suburban and rural areas.

Altair Semiconductor, a 4G chip company developing the world's most advanced mobile semiconductors for handheld devices, today announced its mobile WiMAX baseband processor, the FourGee -2150, has been integrated into MiTAC's Mio branded Mobile Internet Navigation Device .

Irene Chen, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 28 October 2009] Bangla Lion Communications, a WiMAX licensee in Bangladesh, has placed orders for 10,000 WiMAX CPE devices with Taiwan-based Accton Technology and is negotiating orders with Zyxel Communications, according to company chairman Abdul Manan.

The world's largest chipmaker Intel expects corporate spending on personal computers to rise in 2010.

Performance Technologies , a leading provider of innovative network communications solutions, today announced that Harris Stratex Networks, Inc.

Europe : Freedom4, the joint investment between Daisy Group plc and Intel Capital, has been granted a licence variation by Ofcom that enables it to offer mobile wireless broadband services to its customers using its nationwide 3.6GHz spectrum.

Sprint Nextel will release the Palm Pixi for $99 on Nov. 15 with a two-year contract.

The wireless future just arrived in Philadelphia. Sprint today announced the launch of Sprint 4G mobile broadband throughout the Philadelphia area.

Samsung Electronics said yesterday that it had carried out the world's first Mobile WiMAX international roaming demonstration.

Clearwire International LLC, an operating subsidiary of Clearwire Corporation, Tatung InfoComm and VMAX today publicly demonstrated the first Mobile WiMAX global roaming at the WiMAX Forum Member Conference in Taipei this week.

Ofcom has allowed an Intel-funded UK company to offer mobile WiMax services on the 3.6GHz frequency.

WiMAX might be losing attention and mindshare from telcos in the U.S., but it's another story entirely when it comes to that oh-so-buzzy sector the smart grid .

As more and more WiMAX networks come on-line in the States and worldwide, and they begin to take over the burden of carrying a telecoms network, they will need to become interconnected on a global level.

With LTE networks set for commercial launches in the coming months, Clearwire Corp.

African wireless communications provider Comzatel reportedly selected Airspan WiMAX equipment for a mobile, 4G network in Mozambique.

Silvertel has announced the launch of the IEEE 802.3at compliant Ag5100 series of Power over Ethernet modules.

Clearwire pegs November for the long-awaited commercial rollout, more cities to have WiMax in next few months By Stephen Lawson WiMax will finally go on sale next month in Chicago, a city that was to have been one of the first places where the high-speed wireless service was offered in the U.S. Chicago was on the cutting edge of Sprint Nextel's ...

GREEN Packet Bhd, a leading developer of WiMAX solutions, today announced its plan to secure a facilities-based operator licence and wireless broadband access spectrum right in Singapore.

Seeking to differentiate itself in a competitive market, a utility company in Australia has agreed to install by December 2013 more than 680,000 smart meters riding a WiMax network.

Tellabs agreed to acquire WiChorus, a start-up offering a mobile packet core platform for $165 million in net cash.

Motorola announced it will power what the company claims to be the world's first WiMAX-based electric utility smart metering for Australian energy delivery SP AusNet.

CUPERTINO, Calif. & PARIS -- -- Sequans Communications, leading WiMAX chipmaker, announced that its chips are being used by Alvarion for its recently released BreezeMAX Extreme Mobile WiMAX 802.16e product line.

DHAKA: Augere Wireless Broadband Bangladesh Ltd yesterday launched the much-waited wireless broadband service through WiMax in some designated areas in Dhaka.

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.

Airspan Networks today announced certification of their MacroMAXe , a 802.16e Mobile WiMAX Base Station, by the WiMAX Forum .

ADTRAN, Inc. , a leading supplier of mobile backhaul solutions, today announced the expansion of its mobile backhaul portfolio with the addition of Fiber Ethernet Access and Pseudowire gateway capabilities.

This morning, Sprint said it would acquire its litigious wireless affiliate for $831 million, including the assumption of $405 million of net debt.

MontaVista Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux commercialization, announced today the next release of their market leading Carrier Grade Edition Linux with over 30 different Linux Support Packages available immediately.

Despite an early lead with handset-centric services like I-mode, Japan fell behind in the wireless data race a few years ago as interest shifted to Apple and the iPhone.

As much as we've written about wireless technologies that propose to replace Wi-Fi -- WiMAX and LTE , in particular -- this aging broadband technology refuses to die.

Airspan Networks Inc. , a leading provider of broadband wireless access networks, announced today that BigAir Group Limited , an Australian wireless broadband service provider, is expanding WiMAX services across Australia.

Starent Networks would give Cisco expertise in long-term-evolution Evolved Packet Core mobile switching software.

October 16, 2009, 12:50 AM - - Malaysian WiMax operator Packet One is expanding the coverage of its network as fast it can, aiming to dramatically increase the number of sites it covers in western Malaysia and recently winning government approval to extend services to eastern Malaysia.

Newport Beach-based Mindspeed Technologies , a supplier of semiconductors for the networking industry, said Thursday that the firm has been selected by Beceem Communictions.

Gatineau -- The leading Russian wireless broadband access operator Enforta announced today it will be adopting the Mentum Planet 5.0 radio planning software to design its WiMAX networks.

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.

Time Warner Cable has confirmed that it will begin resale of Clear's WiMax service in the Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh-Durham markets beginning on December 1st under the Road Runner Mobile brand name soon after Clear's official launch.A Time Warner representatives further confirmed Road Runner Mobile launches for the Dallas/Ft.Worth metroplex ...

This week's $2.9 billion acquisition of Starent Networks indicates that Cisco is backpedaling from its WiMAX focus and shifting it to LTE as the 4G underpinning of next generation mobile data networks.

Around 200 new jobs are set to be created as a result of the roll-out of a new high-speed 4G Internet network across the country.

Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile, confirmed that T-Mobile's lack of 3G services did cost it dearly in terms of customers.

Telecoms firm Imagine is investing €100m in upgrading its technology infrastructure to support high speed broadband.

Time Warner Cable today announced it will officially launch the Time Warner Cable 4G Mobile Network in Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh, NC on December 1, 2009.

WiMax operator Skartel, 25.1 percent of which belongs to Russian Technologies, is building a federal network of 180 cities under its Yota brand, but the source of financing for the project remains a mystery.

PACKET One Networks Sdn Bhd announced today that it has received the necessary approvals to roll out its P1 W1MAX service in East Malaysia.

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, and AIRCOM International, the leading independent network planning and optimisation consultancy, today jointly announced a partnership to drive product interoperability and system integration.

Cisco agreed to acquire Starent Networks for approximately $2.9 billion, or $35 per share in cash -- a premium of about 20% over the stock's recent trading value.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global MPLS over WiMAX - Fixed and Mobile: Opportunities for Global Telecom Markets" report to their offering.

The federal government will soon start handing out the first $4 billion from a pot of stimulus funds intended to spread high-speed Internet connections to more rural communities, poor neighborhoods and other pockets of the country clamoring for better access.

Powerwave Technologies, Inc. , a global leader in end-to - end wireless coverage and capacity solutions, today announced it has been chosen as a finalist in the 2009 Mobile Excellence Awards , an industry awards program produced by Little Monster Media, that celebrates the achievements from all walks of the mobile and entertainment industry, ...

WiMAX has struggled to establish a foothold in the mature broadband markets of Europe, North America and Asia.

AlvarionA Ltd. , the worlda s leading provider of WiMAXa and wireless broadband solutions, announced today that it plans to report its Third Quarter 2009 results on November 4, 2009, during pre-market hours.

Initial Orders for Ceragon FibeAir Solutions are Valued Several Millions of Dollars TEL AVIV, Israel, October 8 TEL AVIV, Israel , October 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ceragon Networks Ltd.

The WiMAX ForumA and executives from premier suppliers and operators were on hand during ITU Telecom World 2009 to express their commitment to build and trial WiMAX Release 2 based on the IEEE 802.16m standard.

AT&T announced yesterday that it will enable iPhone VoIP apps on its 3G wireless network .

Government agencies and other organizations planning to use WiMAX -- Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access-networks can get technical advice on improving the security of their systems from a draft computer security guide prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Maxim Integrated Products has developed what it claims to be the first single-chip, 2.3GHz to 2.7GHz, WiMAX MIMO RF transceiver .

TEL AVIV, Israel,, Oct 08, 2009 -- Ceragon Networks Ltd. , aleading provider of high-capacity wireless backhaul solutions, today announced that it will partner with Alvarion Ltd.

The platform enables management of mobile devices, and synchronization of diverse mobile media, over WiMax and LTE with social networks, email systems and PCs.

Sprint Nextel Inc. has been in the wireless M2M business for a decade, but this week announced a greater focus on the exploding market area by creating a new Emerging Solutions business unit to speed up delivery of the technology to businesses and consumers.

Yota which provides fast wireless Internet access services based upon the Mobile WiMAX technology, together with its partner, Samsung Electronics, has started testing the next version of the Mobile WiMAX technology - Release 2.0 . The 802.16m standard is the release 2.0 of the broadband Mobile WiMAX access technology.

Alvarion Ltd. , the world's leading provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband solutions, today announced it was selected by leading Kenyan mobile services provider Safaricom for a three-year turnkey WiMAX project to deploy high-speed broadband services throughout Kenya.

DragonWave Inc. has been chosen to support the extension of Russia's first mobile WiMAX network beyond the major cities of Moscow and St.

Unlike other Asian countries, the Philippines has made progress in the deployment of broadband wireless access service, Frost & Sullivan said.

Foris Telecom, the leading WiMAX operator in developing countries, and Runcom Technologies, the ODFMA pioneer, announced today at the ITU TELECOM WORD 2009 in Geneva that they will enhance their collaboration in Mozambique, Africa, by substantially deploying additional quantities of Base Stations and User Terminals.

More people are using cell phones and other portable devices for high-speed Web access than are signing up for fixed line subscriptions to the Net, according to U.N. figures published Tuesday.

Clearwire has announced that it has selected Israel's Alvarion and ZTE of China to supply the equipment needed for the rollout of commercial WiMAX services in Spain.

The collaboration between ICOMM and Beceem is a move that highlights the growing strength of the device ecosystem in India.

The telecommunications industry has escaped the worst of the global economic downturn but a lack of funding is slowing the rollout of next-generation mobile networks, a UN report said.

Sprint Nextel Corp. launched its ultra-fast, high-capacity wireless broadband service in 10 U.S. cities Monday.

The AdvancedTCA/MicroTCA Summit is a favorite place to be for telecommunications and embedded systems engineers who want to make save time and money by using standard chassis configurations with a high-performance backplane.

The wireless broadband connection from du will be available both on metro trains and stations.

Rah! Rah! Rah! That's right: We Americans rock. Why? Because - unlike in previous Gs - we've got 4G first, and we're using it to kick butt and take names, at least as far as the wireless vendors are concerned.

Every time Governments legislate against or big business prosecutes against file sharing, internet users find a new way to circumvent and continue their activities.