Looking to take advantage of the mania surrounding anything produced by Apple Inc. (AAPL), Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) today unveiled its iSpot mobile hot spot product with dedicated support for Apple's line of mobile devices, including the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. (Clearwire went out...
Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) launched WiMAX service in five smaller markets today, bringing commercial operations to 49 cities to date. The operator is moving forward aggressively with its launch plans and plans to increase its presence, announcing a wholesale deal with Best Buy Co....
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
RCR Wireless News sat down with Paul Ives Choiseul, chief technology officer at Latin American operator IBW to discuss the carrier's decision to deploy WiMAX technology. The Costa Rican wireless operator is targeting the financial industry with WiMAX technology as a DSL alternative to...
Capital spending on wireless infrastructure is set to rise in 2011 as global operators build out fourth-generation networks, according to iSuppli Corp. Following two years of less spending worldwide, operators are expected to spend a collective $40.3 billion on wireless network equipment next year,...
RCR Wireless News interviewed Intel Corp.'s Kevin Jones, Global 4G evangelist, to get a better understanding on WiMAX's role in future technology deployments, some regions of the world that are using WiMAX technology and other areas of interest, while RCR and Intel attended Huawei's...
Just a day after Harbinger Capital Partners announced plans to spend $7 billion building out a nationwide LTE network, the industry’s current No. 4 operator T-Mobile USA Inc. said its HSPA+ network – “the most pervasive network to offer 4G speeds in the country...
TD-LTE technology continues to make technical progress, with L.M. Ericsson (ERIC) demonstrating an end-to-end solution earlier this week in Shanghai, China. Further, WiMAX proponent Alvarion Ltd. (ALVR) announced its support for TD-LTE technology. Ericsson, the world's largest infrastructure supplier, said it...
Despite claims that the WiMAX market is set for rough waters, one analyst firm noted in a recent report that new specifications for the technology and overall growth in fixed/portable WiMAX deployments around the world are creating a “sizable” market for WiMAX equipment for...
SHANGHAI, China – Sprint Nextel Corp. has been transitioning and remaking itself for at least two years now. During that time, much more has changed in the mobile industry than stayed the same. Many of the situations that the carrier faces today are not...
A report claiming Intel is closing down its WiMax Program Office in Taiwan has caused a bit of an online storm in a teacup, with some dramatically pointing to the event as a sure sign Intel is distancing itself from WiMax, while the firm laughs off such allegations.
Intel seems to have taken yet another surreptitious step towards the world of cellular, snapping up bankrupt Israeli based Comsys Mobile Communication and Signal Processing, a WiMAX/GSM modem chip maker for a reported $30 million.
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution – Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The 80-page special edition is available here.Long Term Evolution or LTE, a next-generation 3G technology that uses ODFMA (Orthogonal Frequency...
LOS ANGELES — As more services collide on mobile networks, the business models that support the entire wireless ecosystem are being strained like never before.Services and business models are all colliding while the development of a new ecosystem from the likes of Google Inc.,...
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and partner Clearwire Corp. (CLWR)continued their full-court WiMAX press this morning announcing a trio of new markets where service is available as well as a new device set to launch later this year.Both companies said they are now offering WiMAX...
Has WiMAX hit its apogee? Well, according to a new report from In-Stat, the mobile broadband technology is facing increased competitive pressure that could hamper any further growth.In its report, “Global WiMAX Subscribers, Base Stations, and Revenues,” In-Stat noted that the future for 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.Those who think in terms of history are likely to remember last Friday, the day...
Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) purchased 95% of Infotel Broadband Services Private Ltd for 48,000 crore ($1 billion) on Friday. Earlier that same day, Infotel was announced as the sole winner of a pan-India broadband wireless access (BWA) license for 12,848 crore ($3 billion).
Telecommunications leaders from China and Taiwan met in Beijing on Wednesday and agreed to jointly standardize on Android, WiMax, and TD-LTE (Time-Division Long Term Evolution) among other accords.
Sprint Nextel Corp. yesterday backed off previous claims that sales of the HTC Corp. Evo 4G device on its launch day of June 4 were three times higher than the combined sales of the carrier's previous best sellers, the Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Instinct...
The Global mobile Suppliers Association said that it expects 22 LTE networks to be up and running by the end of this year with an additional 23 networks operational by the end of 2012. The GSA added that 80 operators have made “firm commitments...
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s HTC Evo 4G handset went on sale today, accompanied by an advertising campaign that focuses on “first” inventions, starting with the wheel and including gramophones, trains, planes, rocketships, TVs, laptops and of course, cellphones.The dual-mode smartphone, built by HTC Corp., works...
The BWA spectrum auction under way in India continues to be an intensely competitive affair. By the time it concludes, a pan-India BWA spectrum slot could end up costing as much or more than a pan-India 3G spectrum slot – principally, because the broadband...
Lost in the shuffle of AT&T Mobility’s announcement this week that it was now limiting previous smartphone data plans to 2 gigabytes of data transmission were changes rival T-Mobile USA Inc. quietly made to its data packages last weekend. The nation’s No. 4 carrier...
