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A new report by Juniper Research calculates the number of mobile WiMAX subscribers will exceed 80 million by 2013. The biggest surge in growth, says the research firm, will happen after 2010. Juniper’s projections assume a wide range of attractive devices will be available on the market within three...

The speculation about what Sprint plans to do with WiMAX is spinning up to furious proportions as news spread that the provider could spin off its service into another company. A Bloomberg news report on Monday said that Sprint Nextel's acting CEO, Paul Saleh, told investors that the carrier...

Tokyo-based OMRON Corp. today announced the introduction of a global WiMAX band polymer antenna, the HAWK-WMX, for laptops, notebooks, tablet and ultra-mobile PCs. The smaller antenna fits under the lid of notebook computers, enabling manufacturers to design smaller and lighter models. The HAWK-WMX employs the high dielectric polymer material...

Among the clamor of some financial analysts for Sprint to get out of WiMAX to focus on short term strategies that would boost earnings, Sprint has issued statements that they remain strongly committed to deploying WiMAX. Many in the press and on Wall Street jumped to the conclusion that...

Innovators in the wireless world got a cautionary reminder last week that early adopters often end up with arrows in their backs. WiMAX, an upstart wireless-communications technology that has been hyped to high heaven, received its first serious setback. The technology’s two leading proponents scrapped an agreement that would...

The unceremonious departure of Sprint Nextel CEO Gary Forsee has inevitably prompted speculation that the operator will pull back on its commitment to WiMAX and a planned leapfrog into 4G-class services, an outcome that would shake the whole WiMAX world, such a cheerleader has its favourite cellco become. But...

WiMAX operator UK Broadband, a subsidiary of Hong Kong giant PCCW, has scored a major victory in its often tortured plans to provide mobile broadband services across Britain. The UK regulator, Ofcom, has said it will amend the provider’s 3.4GHz license to allow full mobile hand-off, enabling the company...

Portable WiMAX devices are coming to market now as Samsung showed recently with two new products - a smartphone/PDA and an Ultra Mobile Windows PC, plus two accessories that will turn any laptop or desktop into a WiMAX compatible computer. The product launches illustrate that the rest of the...

Huawei took a keen interest in WiMAX from an early stage, but concrete results were slow to follow, until now, when it has announced an end-to-end product roadmap, and started to show up in operators’ shortlists — most recently, up against Alcatel-Lucent with Summa Telecom in Russia. The Chinese...

Sprint's acting CEO Paul Saleh told investors that Sprint is seriously considering selling its stake in the WiMAX network it has been building. This could be a deathblow for WiMAX's future. At least for the short term. And it would leave Sprint without a 4G strategy. Ever since former...