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WiMAX presents the first opportunity to extend a full-featured Internet experience at broadband speeds to the mobile economy. WiMAX delivers benefits--lower cost per megabyte; standards-based network design; and low-cost, small-scale chip sets--that promise a ubiquitous mobile broadband experience on a myriad of portable electronic devices. Capitalizing on this technology...

In some ways, Sprint Nextel's early embrace of Mobile WiMAX has done the 802.16 cause harm as well as good. It has subverted the marketing agenda almost entirely towards wide area mobile broadband and established carriers, taking the spotlight off the markets where the prospects for WiMAX are far...

As leading developers of the mobile WiMAX standard, EB and Nokia Siemens Networks have agreed to co-operate on the further development of WiMAX technology. According to the agreement, EB will sell its WiMAX baseband software asset to Nokia Siemens Networks. The parties have agreed to continue the WiMAX baseband...

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...