The United Nations telecommunications agency in Geneva gave the upstart technology called WiMax a vote of approval, providing a sizable victory for Intel and something of a defeat for competing technologies from Qualcomm and Ericsson. The International Telecommunication Union’s radio assembly agreed late Thursday to include WiMax, a wireless technology that allows Internet and other [...]
Montreal will soon deliver wireless Internet and mobile IP telephony to residents. A new WiMAX based Wi-Fi network is being deployed across the metropolitan area, as a result of a joint venture between two Quebec-based businesses: independent Internet service provider Radioactif.com and Nomade Télécom, wireless network installer and operator.
The new wireless services will be made [...]
With the emergence of more WiMAX devices as well as initiatives by telecom services providers, the global WiMAX market is set for robust growth in 2008, according to Sriram Viswanathan, managing director of Intel Capital and general manager of Intel’s WiMAX program office. Viswanathan made the remarks on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific WiMAX Conference [...]
With Sprint’s 4G commitment to WiMAX and the support of handset vendors Motorola and Samsung, Nokia wants a piece of the action, too. After all, the world’s largest handset manufacturer needs to… well, remain the world’s largest. Anyhoo, those Finns have said that it intends to sell “mobile devices using WiMAX Internet technology” as early [...]
The relentless development of WiMAX products worldwide seems to have cooled down recently due to confirmed or rumored retrenchments of WiMAX projects by some leading players, according to market sources. Uncertainty over the prospect of the industry arose recently when Ericsson announced that it would suspend its development of related WiMAX technologies and products and [...]
Recently, the IEEE has been hard at work ironing out the details on their latest Wi-Fi project dubbed ‘802.11m.’ The new standard will feature wireless speeds of up to 1Gbit, multiple-input/multiple-output technology (MIMO), and backwards compatibility with existing WiMAX infrastructures.
The IEEE says it wants to develop a “competitive” and “significantly improved” radio access [...]
IBM has joined the WiMax Forum, an industry organisation that promotes the upcoming wireless standard. WiMax is designed to deliver high-speed wireless internet access over a wide range, and operators expect the technology to provide internet connections in metropolitan areas as a replacement for DSL and cable broadband.
The technology is also expected to bring internet [...]
Mexico’s Telmex will be investing about $15 million to build a WiMAX network covering 90% of Chile’s boroughs by the end of 2007, according to the company.
With this rollout, about 98% of the Chilean population would have WiMAX coverage. That’s just amazing to me - in less than a year, 98% of the population in [...]
Horizon Wi-Com announced is planning to launch WiMAX services in Northeastern U.S. markets soon, according to the wireless carrier.
Horizon will be using customer modems, base stations and network management systems from Texas-based Navini Networks and will using 10MHz of A-Block radio spectrum that it owns in several cities to rollout the service.
What is the purpose, [...]
When Sprint Nextel stated last year that it had chosen WiMAX as its next-gen wireless network (4G), many were excited by the proposition. Well, it’s 2007 and the carrier has unveiled the first markets that will get the service - Chicago and Washington, D.C..
If you’re lucky enough to live in either of those cities, you’ll [...]
Sprint Nextel, which announced last summer that it would be using WiMAX technology to power its next-generation 4G wireless network, will be demonstrating WiMAX technology and applicaitons with its chosen equipment partners at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show.
The CES show, which should provide techno-geeks and journalists with plenty of fodder for 2007, will launch next [...]
Motorola and Samsung won’t be the only providers for Sprint’s WiMAX network as reports surface that a deal with Nokia is close at hand. Earlier this year, Sprint chose Motorola and Samsung to be the initial suppliers of their next generation high speed WiMAX network in the $3 Billion dollar deal.
Any chance we could get [...]
The Italian government says it will be opening up spectrum to allow room for WiMax and will offer licenses for space in the band in 2007.WiMax hasn’t gotten much traction in the European market as of yet, and this looks like a fairly significant step in the technology’s quest to gain a foothold on the [...]
Alvarion makes WiFi/WiMAX integrated unit
Seems like the worlds of local WiFi and long-range WiMAX continue to get bridged so that customers can access the best of both worlds in terms of wireless Internet broadband connectivity.
Alvarion - maker of WiMAX products - has added WiFi functionality to its BreezeMAX product line to support both WiFi and [...]
Town officials in Manchester, N.H. are looking to establish a WiMax network in the downtown area by the end of the month to enhance wireless access within the area. The downtown area has had hotspots there since 2004, however there have been instances of service interruptions over that time, so the city has decided to [...]
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