08/15/2011
CIO – Online
The operator said it reached a mutual decision with RIM not to offer a WiMax version of the PlayBook tablet IDG News Service Sprint has decided not to offer a WiMax version of the BlackBerry PlayBook, the company said Friday. Slideshow: “We apologize for any inconvenience but the BlackBerry 4G PlayBook Tablet that [...]
08/05/2011
Giga Om
Clearwire’s shift to LTE is not just a move away from WiMAX, but it cements Clearwire’s shift in strategy from being a retail operator to a wholesale provider — a shift that has been coming for a while. In this week’s announcement Clearwire said that it would sell its LTE network not just to [...]
04/01/2011
IDG News Service – San Francisco Bureau
IDG News Service – The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has approved IEEE 802.16m, the standard for the next generation of WiMax, which may deliver downstream speeds of more than 300M bps (bits per second).
IEEE 802.16m, also known as WirelessMAN-Advanced or WiMax-2, was developed as the next [...]
01/10/2011
Thomson Reuters – Taipei Bureau
IDG News Service – A faster, more secure and energy-efficient update to the WiMax wireless Internet standard will get final approval and see commercialization within a year, industry officials said on Monday.
An international committee tasked with WiMax development will finalize the standard’s IEEE 802.16m version in March following technical meetings [...]
12/21/2010
Giga Om
WiMAX might have gotten a head start when it comes to the next generation wireless broadband sweepstakes, but the technology is beginning to feel the heat from its rival, Long Term Evolution aka LTE. New data from research firm Telegeography shows that by 2015, LTE will have seven times as many users as WiMAX. [...]
09/29/2010
DNA India
Worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) or long term evolution (LTE) — the choice of technology for local telecom operators has the experts divided.
Broadband wireless access spectrum of 2.3 GHz — won recently by seven operators including the two public sector telcos Bharat Sachar Nigam (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam — allows deployment of [...]
09/30/2010
Telecoms.com
KT will expand its WiBro service to five new cities in Korea
Second placed South Korean operator KT has expanded its collaboration with US vendor Intel to drive the adoption of the country’s homegrown WiMAX technology, known as WiBro. As part of the venture, Intel will stump up investment funds and help expand network rollout to [...]
09/28/2010
Connected Planet
T-Mobile and Clearwire’s possible tie-up for 4G is back in the news, this time spurred by Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow telling a Goldman Sachs investor conference that T-Mobile is considering a possible equity stake in the 4G-only operator. Both sides stand to benefit considerably as Clearwire would get part of the cash infusion it [...]
09/21/2010
Giga Om
Sprint and Clearwire’s 4G WiMAX network has rolled out in dozens of cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Seattle and Portland. But now the network is in testing in various neighborhoods in San Francisco and should be up in the coming months, just as Sprint and Clearwire promised.
I was able to get on to [...]
12/14/2009
Economic Times – Mumbai Edition – Online, The
JAIPUR/NEW DELHI: The state-owned telecom major BSNL on Sunday became the first company in the country to start wireless broadband services and announced a tariff starting with Rs 140 per month for rural areas.
BSNL wireless broadband services, using WiMAX technology, was launched by Minister of State Sachin [...]
