Archive for 'WiMAX' Category
The Cablecos’ Various & Sundry Wireless Plans
17 May 2008- Cox and Cablevision Have Their Own Wireless Plans, the Latter Reviving Wi-Fi Mesh
- Charter and Mediacom Leaning towards Joining Clearwire Group
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Sprint and Samsung: ‘Mobile WiMAX Is Ready’
17 May 2008As we went to press, Sprint and Samsung said that mobile WiMAX, which includes the version for stationary devices, is ready for commercial deployment. The two said Samsung’s mobile WiMAX network infrastructure gear and unspecified Samsung WiMAX devices have passed Sprint’s “rigorous commercial acceptance criteria with flying colors.” The criteria included overall performance, handoff performance […]
Idaho Gets WiMAX Before World Capitols, Way Before
29 February 2008New York, London, Paris and Tokyo may not be able to get WiMAX service but Hailey, Rexburg, Pocatello, all in Idaho, can.
Tiny Digital Bridge Communications (DBC), the WiMAX service provider, promises to also launch WiMAX in Sun Valley and Ketchum, Idaho in the coming months.
How can it be that all those potato farmers and skiers […]
Sprint’s $29.5b Quarterly Loss Threatens Its Xohm WiMAX
29 February 2008Sprint Nextel’s fourth quarter 2007 loss of $29.5 billion is not going to help the company’s Xohm branded WiMAX efforts.
However, a quick examination of the quarterly results shows that WiMAX may be Sprint’s best hope for the future.
The question is whether it might be forced to spin off Xohm or bring in outside investors in […]
It’s MoCA, Not WiMAX for Verizon
29 February 2008Sometimes the brain goes faster than the fingers as it did with us last week. Verizon selected MoCA-based set-top boxes operating over coax wiring from Motorola for its FiOS deployment. It, of course, did not and likely will never select anything associated with WiMAX, the wireless Internet access technology.
Enforta Deploys WiMAX in Major Russian Cities
22 February 2008Enforta, the largest wireless Internet service provider in Russia, plans to deploy more WiMAX services in Russia in the coming months.
The first eight of Enforta’s new cities, expected to be commissioned in the first quarter of the year, include: Izhevsk, Nizhny Novogorod, Volgograd, Lipetsk, Tomsk, Komsomolsk-na-Amur, Nakhodka and Ussuriysk.
Enforta provides high speed Internet, local and […]
WiMAX Competitor LTE Gets Industry Approval
1 February 20083GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) has approved specifications for Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology that will make it possible for mobile phone networks to offer theoretical peak speeds up to 326 Mbps down and 86 Mbps up.
Actual speeds are likely to be 100 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up.
Successful LTE trials in Finland recently showed […]
Will WiMAX be the Savior for 1.2b South Asians?
1 February 2008In North America, Western Europe and parts of Asia like South Korea and Japan, discussions on broadband primarily center round questions like - will Comcast offer 50 Mbps this year, will Verizon’s FiOS expand its footprint to my neighborhood or can H2O really deliver 100 Mbps broadband via fiber in sewer pipes?
Au contraire, in one […]
Mega WiMAX Deployment Starts in India
29 January 2008Indian telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is embarking on one of the largest Mobile WiMAX deployments covering 400 cities and a population of 200 million people.
Of course, given the high poverty rate in India the addressable population is likely to be closer to 50 million or a little lesser.
BSNL, a state-owned telecom operator, is […]
29 Bid for WiMAX Licenses in Italy
29 January 2008Italy’s Ministry of Communications has received 29 bids for WiMAX licenses from most of the country’s major telecom players. The bids will be opened January 30. The government said WiMAX is a key technology for expanding broadband penetration.