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 [...]
12/11/2009
Unstrung
NEW YORK — Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) CEO Dan Hesse only dodged one question during a wide-ranging talk at a UBS AG conference here Wednesday, when he refused to say whether his company could buy the rest of WiMax partner Clearwire LLC (Nasdaq: CLWR) at some point in the future.
“I’m not supposed to [...]
12/10/2009
FierceWireless
Clearwire’s service was down in markets across the country Tuesday night, according to a Clearwire spokesman. The company’s mobile WiMAX network was offline for around five hours Tuesday night in Salem and Portland, Ore., Las Vegas, Boise, Idaho, and eight markets in western Texas. Additionally, in Seattle and Chicago, the company had outages that affected [...]
12/03/2009
Telecoms.com
Google-backed mobile operating system Android has been given a boost in the mobile WiMAX space due to a partnership between D2 Technologies, Beceem Communications and ECS.
The joint initiative will look at the deployment of the Android operating system on smartphones delivering VoIP over WiMAX and other IP-based communications capabilities.
D2 provided its mCUE converged [...]
11/09/2009
IDG News Service – Singapore Bureau
After keeping operators and users alike waiting for nearly a year, Intel has begun production of a wireless chipset, called Kilmer Peak, that will support three versions of WiMax, 2.3GHz, 2.5GHz and 3.5GHz.
Intel’s current WiMax chipsets only support the 2.5GHz version of WiMax, which is used markets like Japan, [...]
10/26/2009
Light Reading
Clearwire LLC (Nasdaq: CLWR) and Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) are to launch their mobile WiMax services into a number of new U.S. markets before the end of 2009, with the bulk of them expected to support white-label offerings from cable partners Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC).
Here’s [...]
