Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Rockworth Rockworth Alvarion today announced the commercial launch of mobile WiMax service by DigitalBridge Communications (DBC) in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, using...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Melissa Robison Research firm Frost & Sullivan today stated that if commercial mobile WiMax rollouts don't happen by the end of this year, "the market scope...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Matjaz Boncina Dutch company KMC Systems is marketing a long-range Wi-Fi technology called Max-Fi (previously known as InspiAir) as a cheaper alternative to WiMax....
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Clearwire and Sprint today announced plans to combine Sprint's Xohm WiMax offering and Clearwire's WiMax network into a new $14.55 billion company, to be called - shockingly enough -...
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Acer this week demonstrated a new version of its Acer Aspire 5920 laptop with a built-in WiMax module, with the aim of selling the laptop for use with Sprint's Xohm network and similar WiMax...
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Sprint yesterday announced that it's delaying the commercial launch of its Xohm WiMax service from April, as was previously announced, to "later this year." "While Sprint offered...
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Comcast and Time Warner Cable are in talks to fund a new joint venture with Sprint and Clearwire, creating a nationwide WiMax network that the cable companies could then access on a wholesale basis....
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Buzz Broadband CEO Garth Freeman's description of WiMax as a "disaster" got a strong response today from WiMax equipment manufacturer Airspan, and from Sprint, which is deploying the...
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At WiMax World Asia 2008 in Bangkok last week, Garth Freeman, CEO of Australian WiMax operator Buzz Broadband, shocked his audience by calling WiMax technology a "disaster" that has...
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A wonderful post by Crave's John P. Falcone today imagines an iPod Max, a hypothetical iPod Touch with WiMax connectivity. "Unlike the current Wi-Fi-only iPod Touch, the user [could] also...
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Tata Communications this week announced plans to work with Telsima to launch a nationwide WiMax network in India. The first phase of the deployment will deliver broadband Internet access via WiMax to...
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TheStreet's Scott Moritz broke the news on Friday that Sprint and Clearwire "are close to announcing the formation of a WiMax joint venture funded in part by a $2 billion injection from...
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TDS Telecom this week announced the launch of WiMax services in Madison, Wisconsin, making it the first provider in Wisconsin to offer WiMax. The service, which uses equiment from Alvarion, will be...
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At CES today, OQO Inc. demoed a WiMax-enabled version of the OQO model 02, the first UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) designed to work with Sprint's Xohm WiMax service. "OQO has teamed up with Sprint...
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Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. this week announced that it had been chosen by Tajikistan's Babilon-T to deploy what will be Central Asia's first commercial WiMax network. Rollout will start...
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It's auction week! UK regulator Ofcom today announced plans to release a total of 205 MHz of 2.6 GHz spectrum for use in WiMax or 3G services, with the spectrum to be awarded next summer....
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Intel and Comstar this week announced plans to work together on a nationwide mobile WiMax network in Russia, starting with a citywide network in Moscow planned for launch in late 2008....
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Juniper Research today released a report entitled Mobile WiMax: Global Opportunities, Strategies & Forecasts, 2007-2013, which predicts that mobile WiMax (802.16e) will take off between 2010 and...
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In a nasty blow to WiMax technology in general, Sprint today announced that it had terminated its letter of intent to work with Clearwire on a nationwide WiMax network. It's also, of course, a...
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