Sprint PCS may be going out on a date with WiMAX, but it does not guarantee a wedding ring. That's the way another technology provider, Flarion Technologies Inc. with its Flash-OFDM, approaches the carrier's decision to join the WiMAX Forum. Since its proposed merger...
WASHINGTON-Predicting the future is not as difficult as you might think. To predict the future is to know the present in cold, sober terms. You can read what the experts say down below. The biggest pitfall with year-end prognostications is they tend to lend...
Once the darling of the wireless broadband publicity machine, 802.11-based Wi-Fi technologies have increasingly lost their luster to more appealing opportunities forecast from broader-coverage technologies like WiMAX and OFDM-based services, and even more traditional third-generation cellular technologies. But, despite the dimming attention, most industry...
SAN FRANCISCO-WiMAX got a boost last week as Intel Corp. and broadband wireless carrier Clearwire announced they will join forces to develop and deploy broadband networks based on the technology. Clearwire subsidiary NextNet Wireless will provide broadband equipment for the project, and future Intel...
Broadband wireless carrier Clearwire and Intel Corp. said they will join forces to develop and deploy WiMAX wireless broadband networks. Wireless broadband equipment from Clearwire subsidiary NextNet Wireless will be used for the networks. Future Intel silicon products that will support the upcoming 802.16...
Rogers Wireless Communications Inc.'s $1.1 billion agreement to acquire Microcell Telecommunications Inc., Canada's smallest wireless operator, could propel Rogers Wireless past Bell Mobility as the nation's largest wireless operator with approximately 5.1 million total subscribers. The deal also trumps a long-standing unsolicited $800 million...
Few names garner as much attention in the wireless space as Craig McCaw, who is often regarded as one the savviest investors in the industry. From the original creation of McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., which eventually was sold to AT&T Corp. for more than...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week opened up a huge swath of spectrum for wireless broadband services, creating incentives for businesses to invest in a third digital pipe to homes and businesses across the country.In doing so, the agency found a new home-the 2.5...
By coincidence, the hotel hosting last week's Wireless Communications Association conference was also home to a three-day rally of the ReDefeat Bush crowd. Meeting rooms of the two diverse meetings were practically next to each other.The WCA show, while technologically and politically neutral, actually...
WASHINGTON-Craig McCaw, who made a fortune in the cellular industry before stumbling in satellite and local telephone ventures, last week unveiled plans to leverage wireless technology to compete against dominant telephone and cable TV companies in the lucrative high-speed Internet market. McCaw will pursue...
WASHINGTON-Cellular pioneer Craig McCaw today unveiled plans to leverage wireless broadband technology to compete against telephone and cable TV companies in the high-speed Internet market, an undertaking he will pursue as chairman of Clearwire Corp. "We come into this opportunity...
SAN BRUNO, Calif.-IPWireless Inc. said Clearwire Technologies will deploy its next-generation broadband everywhere technology, beginning with a major U.S. city in the first quarter of 2003."Clearwire selected the IPWireless UMTS technology because it enables us to offer a portable and cost-effective broadband solution for...
Clearwire Technologies Inc. and the Instructional Television Fixed Service Spectrum Development Alliance are teaming to deliver wireless broadband services to educational, nonprofit and commercial customers, with a $97 million commitment from Goldman Sachs & Co. and Liberty Associated Partners L.P.The partnership will give Clearwire...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association International's unlicensed council, created earlier this month, modified its group name and selected ADC Telecommunications, Clearwire Communications and WaveRider Communications as team leaders for core functions.WCA said the group "emulated a trend begun in Europe by substituting the term `license-exempt'...
