The Commerce Department has identified 115 megahertz of spectrum that could be freed up within the next five years for mobile and fixed wireless broadband services. The government also released a timetable to free more spectrum as part of President Obama's initiative to find...
Airband Communications and Sparkplug Communications have merged their businesses into what they say is the nation's largest fixed-wireless service provider targeting businesses. In addition to the merger, the companies have received another $20 million in venture-capital funding for future growth and acquisitions.Previous equity backers...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Peter Jarich, NPD Group's...
Nextlink, a subsidiary of XO Holdings Inc., offers fixed wireless broadband service to carriers, businesses and government agencies for backhaul and Internet access. Yet, the company is different in the fact it offers service in the Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) band in frequencies...
The market for broadband services is a large space, one that's driven steady innovation, competition and various levels of service. While wireless carriers clamor to make technology roadmap choices for fourth-generation networks that will offer entirely mobile access, plenty of companies are finding success...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the coming weeks...
WiMAX is currently seizing and will grow into a multibillion-dollar fixed and portable wireless market, regardless of its fortunes in the mobile cellular market. 802.16e vendors may or may not capture a sizable portion of the mobile market opportunity, but that is hardly the...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Serbia: Telenor Srbija chose Nokia Siemens Networks to supply its...
Mountain highTrango Systems Inc. said it is supplying the Mount Washington Observatory with highspeed fixed wireless point-to-point wireless backhaul and point-to-multipoint broadband access equipment. Mount Washington Observatory is a scientific weather research station based in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Mount Washington is...
Consider WiMAX a bit schizophrenic. The technology is taking two divergent paths as different countries and different companies explore how best to put it to use in their respective markets.Dr. Mohammad Shakouri, board member and VP of marketing for the WiMAX Forum, has described...
Beyond the shores and borders of the United States, WiMAX is an entirely different animal from the spectrum it plays on, the rules it must adhere to and the players bringing it to life.Around half of the world's population is now covered by some...
Consider WiMAX a bit schizophrenic. The technology is taking two divergent paths as different countries and different companies explore how best to put it to use in their respective markets. Dr. Mohammad Shakouri, board member and VP of marketing for the WiMAX Forum, has...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Indonesia: PT Indosat awarded a contract to L.M. Ericsson to...
U.S. Cellular Corp. executives told analysts that they continue to be skeptical about the value of upgrading their CDMA 1x RTT network to EV-DO, preferring to wait until they are certain to see a return on the network investment before doing anything more than...
The ferocious competition in world markets among cellphone makers is forcing a Chicago company toward the sidelines. Telular Corp., a provider of fixed cellphones and equipment in third-world countries where copper transmission lines are notably absent, is switching its focus to the security market....
CLEARWIRE CORP. COULD EMERGE a dark-horse winner of AT&T Inc.'s $86 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp., with Craig McCaw's wireless broadband firm getting the chance it sought to buy additional 2.5 GHz spectrum from the telecom giant at a time when Clearwire is pursuing...
MIDDLETOWN, R.I.—Towerstream Corp., a fixed wireless Internet provider, said it launched a last mile T1-like solution in Boston using pre-WiMAX technology. The service, called High-Availability T1+, is available to business for $600 per month and includes a service-level agreement that covers service interruptions outside...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said Continental Airlines Inc. can offer free Wi-Fi access at Boston-Logan International Airport, ruling the Massachusetts Port Authority's attempt to shut down the airline's wireless Internet service is pre-empted by federal regulations governing over-the-air reception devices (OTARD). Though the dispute...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission said Continental Airlines Inc. can offer free Wi-Fi access at Boston-Logan International Airport, ruling the Massachusetts Port Authority’s attempt to shut down the airliner’s wireless Internet service is pre-empted by federal regulations governing over-the-air reception devices (OTARD). Though the dispute...
BOSTON-There is nothing like a few billion dollars up for grabs to get a trade show buzzing as was the case for this year's WiMAX World Conference & Exposition. Weeks after Sprint Nextel Corp. announced plans to deploy a nationwide WiMAX network using its...
BOSTON—Closely held Clearwire Corp. offered a closer look into its pre-WiMAX efforts in conjunction with the WiMAX World trade show with news that the carrier currently commands 162,000 customers and has plans to cover a total of 9 million potential customers with its services...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...
WASHINGTON-The unsuccessful proxy fight lodged by Highland Capital Management L.P. against Motient Corp. has given way to another nasty skirmish over proposed ownership changes in mobile satellite assets whose value may have been a factor in the exit of a high-rolling satellite TV bidding...
As consumers and businesses start to take wireless carriers up on their offers of data services, and the carriers themselves put up ever-faster networks to support the demand they're trying to create, backhaul capacity requirements are poised to increase dramatically-and backhaul providers are anticipating...
