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Motorola has signed a multi-year WiMAX contract with wi-tribe Pakistan limited, a joint venture between Qatar Telecom (Qtel) and Saudi Arabia’s A.A. Turki Group of Companies (ATCO). The company will supply infrastructure and a comprehensive services package that will enable cost-effective, wireless broadband services for wi-tribe’s customers. Via this...

Sprint Nextel will gain many advantages from spinning off its Xohm WiMAX unit - shared cost and risk with Clearwire, additional spectrum hoards and so on. But there are some downsides to the loss of full control too, and one of them is highlighted by the initial device roll-out...

Nokia announced yesterday at Broadband World Forum that its mobile equipment arm, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), has struck a patent licensing deal with Chinese rival Huawei. The agreement covers the worldwide use of all standards essential patents of all parties, including GSM, WCDMA, CDMA2000, optical networking, datacom and WiMAX...

Despite regulatory delays and political debates over auction rules, India is still the most promising major market for WiMAX and now the technology's greatest cheerleader and financial backer, Intel, is taking steps to ensure this potential is realized. The chipmaker has often lent its financial clout to the WiMAX...

It’s a milestone of sorts for mobile telecom operators: Sprint closed out Q3 08 with their much-anticipated launch of WiMAX service in Baltimore, Maryland (see Sprint to launch first WiMAX service in Baltimore ). The commercial XOHM network marks the first deployment of a mobile WiMAX network by a...

3.65 GHz wireless provider Azulstar Inc. has selected Alvarion Ltd.'s 802.16e BreezeMAX equipment to deliver mobile WiMAX service to communities in West Michigan and New Mexico. Azulstar's MetraMAX wireless broadband network will be powered by a high-performance Gigabit backbone to deliver a fast, responsive Internet connection. Alvarion's BreezeMAX 3650...

RISHON LEZION, Israel (PRNewswire) -- Runcom Technologies Ltd., a technology company pioneering OFDMA based silicon solutions for user terminals and base stations that comply with the IEEE802.16e-2005 standard for WiBro and Mobile WiMAX applications, announced today that it has secured a US$10 million Series C investment by TLcom Capital...

Packet One Networks Sdn. Bhd. (P1), the first Malaysian WiMAX converged telco and a subsidiary of Green Packet Berhad, officially opened its doors Thursday for Malaysians to subscribe to its WiMAX services, branded as P1 W1MAX. “We are indeed proud of the fact that we have put Malaysia on...

Sprint Nextel has signed nine partners to help it roll out bleeding-edge subscriber location services. Based on XOHM WiMAX technology, Sprint’s high-speed mobile data network will turn up commercial service in Baltimore this September (see Sprint to launch first WiMAX service in Baltimore ), with more cities — likely...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the industry's first Digital Radio Frequency (DigRF) V4 test solution . It enables comprehensive stimulus and analysis for developers of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RF-IC) and baseband ICs (BB-IC) as well as integrators of wireless handsets. DigRF V4, driven by the MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface)...