Product announcements streamed out of Boston during WiMAX World 2005, a show where the attendance increased from the hundreds in 2004 to the thousands in 2005. As the industry moves closer to developing a standard, traditional and upstart wireless equipment providers detailed their plans...
Nortel Networks Ltd. announced its market strategy for WiMAX product development, saying it has formed alliances with Intel Corp. for mobile WiMAX and Airspan Networks Inc. for fixed WiMAX development. Nortel said these new alliances will complement WiMAX work already under way with LG...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Marconi Corp. plc and Airspan Networks Inc. announced plans to work together to deploy WiMAX connectivity in Italy's Piedmont and Sicily regions.Marconi said it was selected to support a public trial of WiMAX in the regions by a working party consisting of...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Airspan Networks Inc. said it has signed a general original equipment manufacturer purchasing agreement with L.M. Ericsson that allows the Swedish vendor to resell Airspan's AS.MAX family of WiMAX products.Products included under the agreement are Airspan's HiperMAX, MacroMAX and MicroMAX base station...
Three mergers have just taken place in the wireless vendor space, one in the broadband arena and two in the software business. Airspan Networks said it has signed a deal to buy ArelNet Ltd. for $8.7 million. In the software space, Semotus Solutions Inc....
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Airspan Networks Inc. announced last week the completion of its acquisition of Nortel Networks' fixed wireless access business. The purchase price of $12.9 million was offset against Nortel customer prepayments totaling $14.9 million, which were acquired by Airspan as part of the...
BELGRADE, Serbia-Serbia's Telekom Srbija a.d. has chosen Alvarion Ltd. and Airspan Networks Inc. as suppliers for the rebuilding of its telecommunications infrastructure. The company plans to deploy more than 100,000 new telephony and data lines using wireless last-mile solutions."Serbia's war-torn infrastructure and mountainous terrain...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Airspan Networks Inc., provider of broadband fixed wireless DSL networks, announced it plans to acquire Nortel Networks' fixed wireless access business for $12.9 million by the end of the year. Airspan will acquire all existing assets associated with the manufacture, development and...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Airspan Networks Inc., provider of broadband fixed wireless DSL networks, announced it plans to acquire Nortel Networks' fixed wireless access business for $12.9 million by the end of the year. Airspan will acquire all existing assets associated with the manufacture, development and...
SUNRISE, Florida, United States-AS Eesti Telefon in Estonia selected fixed wireless equipment from Airspan Networks to deploy high-speed Internet access and voice services throughout residential areas.Eesti will initially roll out 3,000 lines throughout the capital city of Tallinn and later throughout the country.
InfowaveThomas U. Koll was appointed Infowave Software Inc.'s new chief executive officer. He previously was vice president of Microsoft's Network Solutions Group and was responsible for the company's worldwide business with telecommunications companies in wireline and wireless markets. Koll also served as general manager...
Flarion TechnologiesFlarion Technologies, a new company formed to commercialize a wireless data technology for Internet mobility market, announced that Matthew J. Desch has been appointed to a new seat on the company's board of directors. Desch is chairman of Airspan Networks Inc. and former...
SEATTLE-Wireless access systems company GLV, formed by Long Lines Ltd., Golden West Telecommunications and Venture Wireless Inc., will deploy wireless voice and high-speed Internet access equipment supplied by Airspan Networks Inc. in Iowa and South Dakota.The five-year supply agreement enables GLV to deploy Airspan's...
NEW YORK-Airspan Networks Inc., a British designer of fixed wireless communications systems, went public on Nasdaq July 19, raising $82.5 million in an offering of 5.5 million shares priced at $15 each.Credit Suisse First Boston was lead manager of the deal, which was increased...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel will test a new wireless voice and data technology that is expected to improve how the company deploys competitive local telephone service by bypassing the normal wired telecommunications access to homes.During the test phase, expected to last several months, Alltel said...
NEW YORK-Because of the burgeoning demand for data communications in the United States, wireless local access is emerging from the shadows of its mobile brethren and coming into its own as a bona fide business opportunity."There is tremendous enthusiasm for data, and the enthusiasm...
CameroonCameroon's Camtel and Camtel Mobiles are scheduled to be privatized in 2000. Camtel is the incumbent state-owned cellular carrier and operates a GSM 900 network, which had just over 5,100 subscribers as of early this year. A second carrier, operated by France Cfbles et...
HAWTHORNE, N.Y.-NextWave Telecom Inc. announced its entry into the high-speed wireless Internet market with its introduction of iBridge, a service designed specifically to provide affordable high-speed Internet access as an alternative to local telephone service.NextWave said it plans to introduce iBridge service commercially in...
WASHINGTON-DSC Communications Corp. announced it has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission requesting radio spectrum allocation within the 2 GHz band for wireless fixed access local loop services.The wireless fixed access architecture comprised in DSC's AirSpan product offers telecommunications access to customers...
Tonawanda, N.Y.-based Sinclabs, a division of Sinclair Technologies, announced its Excelsior antenna line, which consists of low band, 1/4 wave, 220 MHz, wideband UHF/VHF, cellular trunking, no ground plane and true 2dB wide band antennas. The Excelsior SVB1482 antenna is a wideband mobile antenna...
DALLAS-Polish Telephones and Microwave Corp. signed an agreement to distribute DSC Communications Corp.'s Airspan product in Poland.Airspan is a point-to-multipoint wireless access solution that helps provide basic telephone service to buildings in low-density suburban areas.It reportedly has a range of up to 20 kilometers...
