The Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to create the Citizen Broadband Radio Service that would include 150 megahertz of spectrum between the 3550-3700 MHz bands has run into opposition from the WiMAX Forum, which claims some of that spectrum was already populated with thousands of...
Economic Times | April 4, 2011
NEW DELHI: With private operators seemingly going the TD-LTE way, WiMax Forum is now betting on state-run telecom operators BSNL and MTNL for growing its subscriber base in India.
"Outside of India, WiMax is going great, but in India, it is...
A panel led by Tracy Ford at the Mobile Broadband Event in Pennsylvania. The panel includes Arad Toth of PowerWave, George Wu of Wimax Forum, Laura Altshul of WiPi Services, Linda Martin of Keystone Wireless.
CENS | January 12, 2011 | Steve Chuang
Taipei, Jan. 12, 2011 (CENS)--The 2011 Taipei WiMAX Summit, held by Taiwan`s Ministry of Economic Affair officials on Jan. 10 at Grand Hotel in conjunction with week-long IEEE Session and WiMAX Forum Global Operator Summit, have drawn...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. There has been a lot of discussion in the media lately regarding which technologies are, and...
By: Maravedis
Over the week of November 22nd I had the opportunity to speak at the “WiMAX Forum Southeast Asia Regional Focus 2010” in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conference was co-organised by Beacon Events, MIMOS, Packet One Networks, SIRIM, and YTL Communications....
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Demand for mobile data is surging. We all know it. You can’t open a trade pub anymore...
Below is just some of the news announced during the first day at the 2010 4G World eventMotorola Inc.’s Motorola Solutions business introduced its FDD LTE USB-lte 7110 device, the first FDD LTE-enabled device from the company. In addition, the company unveiled the WiMAX...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.WiMAX technology has been pushing the mobile industry forward for the last several years. In many aspects,...
Despite a setback when Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) won Broadband Wireless Access licenses in India, thereby ensuring that TD-LTE technology would gain a foothold in the country, the WiMAX Forum is still hoping for a WiMAX play in India. The forum and its WiMAX vendors...
At the WiMAX Forum Global Congress this week in Amsterdam, a group of technical experts from several WiMAX vendors created a proposal on enhancements to the IEEE 802.16e mobile WiMAX standard for submission into the next WiMAX Forum certification release. Experts from Alvarion, Beceem,...
With investments already made into WiMAX, the wireless broadband technology will be able to withstand the current economic downturn in a year that will see some additional network deployments, according to the WiMAX Forum.Because of the current economic climate, WiMAX providers are not being...
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 NPD Group's Ross Rubin, Enderle Group's...
The global Broadband Wireless Access/WiMAX subscriber base reached nearly 1.8 million during the fourth quarter, according to figures from research firm Maravedis in its WiMAX Counts Quarterly Report."Even with an increase of more than 20% in WiMAX subscribers in the last quarter of 2007,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRWirelessNews.com you can find columns from the industry's leading analysts, including NPD Group's Ross Rubin, Enderle Group's Rob Enderle and more. Visit www.RCRWirelessNews.com/analyst for...
Device manufacturers and network vendors have submitted 28 mobile WiMAX products in the 2.3 GHz and 2.5 GHz bands since the WiMAX Forum opened its certification lab for testing late last year.The first mobile WiMAX products are expected to be certified by the WiMAX...
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 Jupiter Research's Julie Ask, iGR's Iain...
The WiMAX Forum has opened its first, and lead, lab to formally test and evaluate mobile WiMAX products for certification. With the lab now open for submissions, certified mobile WiMAX products are projected to hit the commercial market in the coming months."This is a...
The WiMAX Forum has opened its first, and lead, lab to formally test and evaluate mobile WiMAX products for certification. With the lab now open for submissions, certified mobile WiMAX products are projected to hit the commercial market in the coming months."This is a...
A quick stroll of the show floor reveals all sorts of flashy gadgetry and eye-popping mobile applications. But the executives behind Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Xohm would rather talk about the ecosystem than about megabits per second.WiMAX is a substantial technological step forward for the...
In contrast to his flashy music video bestowing the progress of WiMAX (a funny video that borrowed heavily from Radar Love to produce WiMAX Love) Intel's Sean Maloney made a couple of sobering points in yesterday's opening keynote.Maloney said that the Internet (with its...
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...
For plenty the debate is over, they've already committed to WiMAX or HSPA leading to LTE. But that never stops the larger, ongoing discussion. Wireless carriers and others are ramping up plans to upgrade or deploy entirely new networks to meet the ever-insatiable thirst...
With a mobile WiMAX soft launch just around the corner and a nearly nationwide deployment planned for the coming year, Sprint Nextel Corp. and its many partners are working feverishly on what many consider will be a two-to-three-year time-to-market advantage in rolling out next-generation...
