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Comcast Conducts WiMAX Femtocells Testing

Comcast is reportedly testing out WiMAX femtocells, in a move aimed at enabling it to offer expanded wireless broadband services. The largest cable provider in the United States is already known to have plans for WiMAX services; therefore, the testing of femtocells that are based on this technology should not come a...

12 November 2009
16:31 GMT

Intel's Kilmer Peak Scheduled for Q1 2010

Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading vendor of computer processors, is said to be planning the release of a new, wireless chipset that will enable future laptops to support three versions of WiMAX, namely that of 2.3GHz, 2.5GHz and 3.5GHz. According to a recent report, the company plans to la...

9 November 2009
06:51 GMT

Sprint Delivers 4G Services to More Markets

Wireless carrier Sprint announced today the launch of its 4G services in new markets around the country, including Chicago; Dallas-Ft. Worth; the Charlotte area; Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary (the Triangle); and the Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, N.C. (the Piedmont Triad region). According to the o...

2 November 2009
15:21 GMT

WiMAX Roaming Showcased at WiMAX Forum Conference

The first public demonstration of Mobile WiMAX global roaming has been performed today in Taiwan at the WiMAX Forum Member Conference. The demonstration was announced by Clearwire, Tatung InfoComm and VMAX, showcasing the power of WiMAX in Taipei, and anticipating the commercial rollout of six WiMAX networks in Taiwa...

26 October 2009
17:31 GMT

Clearwire Demonstrates WiMAX Roaming Capabilities

Clearwire International, LLC, the operating subsidiary of Clearwire Corporation, announced on Friday together with Aicent Inc. that they had made an important step in the international WiMAX roaming area with the successful completion of the first roaming connection between WiMAX networks. The duo demonstrated the in...

24 October 2009
06:42 GMT

Clearwire and Sprint Bring 4G to New Markets

Clearwire Communications, LLC, a subsidiary of Clearwire Corporation, and wireless carrier Sprint have announced on Thursday that they plan to deliver 4G mobile Internet services in a series of new markets around the United States before the end of the ongoing year, and that these services will be offered by each com...

23 October 2009
14:41 GMT

Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint to Deliver 4G to New Cities

Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint have announced recently that they plan on launching 4G services on a series of new markets in the US, including Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle, and that the rollout is expected to be performed before the end of the ongoing year. According to the three companies, each one of them will ...

23 October 2009
06:20 GMT

Sprint's 4G Services Now Available in Waco

Wireless carrier Sprint has just announced the extension of its 4G services in a new market in the United States, namely in Waco. The launch of Sprint 4G mobile broadband in the area is aimed at offering users the possibility to enjoy streaming video and file downloads and uploads at new speeds, and not only when the...

5 October 2009
09:31 GMT

Clearwire Announces 4G Rollouts in Salem and Milledgeville

Clearwire Communications, LLC, a subsidiary of Clearwire Corporation, has announced today that its 4G CLEAR network has reached new markets around the country, including Salem and Milledgeville. The new rollout enables users to access the company's mobile Internet service at true broadband speeds, on par with th...

1 October 2009
14:21 GMT

Sprint to Launch Android-Based WiMAX Phone Next Year

Wireless carrier Sprint seems determined to make big moves with the 4G WiMAX technology that already powers Clearwire's CLEAR network in the US. The company is already offering WiMAX services to users in several areas, and intends to deliver them to even more customers, while also providing more handsets that su...

19 September 2009
06:30 GMT

Samsung Mondi Receives Best Mobile Internet Device Award

xchange magazine announced on Wednesday that Samsung Mobile had just received the Best of 4G Award for its Samsung Mondi handset that was included in the Mobile Internet Device category. The magazine also stated that the awards were meant to show which were the leaders in the development, deployment and service when ...

17 September 2009
13:01 GMT

Motorola to Deploy WiMAX Network in Vancouver, B.C.

Motorola, Inc. announced on Monday that its Home & Networks Mobility business had been selected by Craig Wireless Systems Limited for the deployment of a new 802.16e WiMAX network in Vancouver, British Columbia. According to Motorola, the network for Vancouver will represent the first deployment of the company's...

15 September 2009
13:11 GMT

Clearwire Announces Global Roaming Deals with WiMAX Operators

Clearwire Communications, the subsidiary of Clearwire Corporation, announced today that it has inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with two WiMAX carriers in the world, namely UQ Communications of Japan (UQ) and Yota of Russia. According to Clearwire, the memorandum “identifies the objectives and activiti...

14 September 2009
16:31 GMT

VIA Announces WiMAX-Enabled eNote Turnkey Ultraportable PC

VIA Technologies, a leading manufacturer of power-efficient x86 processor platforms, announced today the launch of the new VIA eNote Turnkey solution, a new, thin and light portable computer system that has been designed to deliver the performance of a mainstream notebook in a netbook form factor. The new system has ...

10 September 2009
09:16 GMT

WiMAX Sees Great 2Q Growth Rate

When it comes to the future of wireless networks, there are two technologies that pop up, namely WiMAX and LTE. The latter seems to have been adopted by a wide range of telecommunications companies around the world, and will start being deployed next year, yet the former sees only few fans at the moment, although the...

9 September 2009
10:56 GMT

Clearwire's 4G WiMAX Reaches 10 More Markets

Clearwire Communications, announced on Tuesday the launch of its CLEAR 4G WiMAX service in 10 new markets around the US, as promised back in August. A number of 14 areas can now enjoy the company's network, which reached on September 1 Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Killeen/Temple, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, W...

2 September 2009
05:15 GMT

Ericsson CTO: LTE Is 4G, WiMAX Isn't

Long Time Evolution, also known as LTE, is the 4G standard expected to see the highest traction on the market as soon as the first networks based on it begin to roll out commercially. It won't be too long before the technology reaches consumers, as the first 4G networks based on LTE are expected to be deployed a...

14 August 2009
08:18 GMT

Sprint Announces 4G Deployments in 17 New Markets This Year

Wireless carrier Sprint announced today that its 4G services would reach 17 more markets during the ongoing year, which would add to the already announced Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Portland, Ore., Philadelphia and Seattle. Sprint's 4G network, based on the WiMAX standard, is the f...

12 August 2009
04:04 GMT

Huawei Appointed Supplier for Clearwire's WiMAX Network

Clearwire Communications, LLC, an operating subsidiary of Clearwire Corporation, has announced today that it has chosen Huawei as a WiMAX supplier for its next-generation network based on the 4G technology. At the same time, the company has also announced that it has completed the selection of its 4G network infrastr...

11 August 2009
09:44 GMT

San Francisco Bay Area to See WiMAX Next Year

Clearwire’s WiMAX service, based on the next-generation 4G technology, has reached four markets in the United States already, and it is set to become available in ten more areas before the end of the third quarter of the year. Unfortunately, the service won't reach all major cities in the US in 2009, thoug...

11 August 2009
05:53 GMT

WiMAX in Ten More Markets on September 1, Clearwire Says

Clearwire announced on Monday the launch of the CLEAR 4G service in ten markets around the country, including Boise, Idaho and Bellingham, Wash., as well as eight in Texas: Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Killeen/Temple, Waco and Wichita Falls. According to the company, the launch is set t...

4 August 2009
05:27 GMT

Sprint’s 2009 WiMAX Roadmap Leaked

Wireless carrier Sprint is the only mobile phone operator in the United States to move towards WiMAX as its choice of the next-generation 4G technology. While others announced plans to use the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard for the move, with plans to roll out their networks starting next year, Sprint already sta...

3 August 2009
09:24 GMT

Samsung's WiMAX Phone Mondi Comes on August 1

Mobile phone maker Samsung announced on Tuesday that Samsung Mondi, the Mobile WiMAX-enabled handheld device it already announced for the US market, would become commercially available in the country starting August 1, 2009. The new phone has been designed to work with Clearwire's Clear Mobile WiMAX service, and...

22 July 2009
16:11 GMT

WiMax Driver for Mac to Come Next Month

Mac users in the US should get ready to benefit from the upcoming Clearwire 4G network in the country, as the company is reportedly gearing up to release a set of drivers that will allow Mac laptops to access its services. The WiMax client software should land on August 17, while at the beginning of the month the com...

22 July 2009
08:53 GMT

WiMAX Gets Adopted by 3.5 Million People

The next-generation technology in the telecommunications area, also known as 4G, seems to already attract users on its side, with the currently available WiMAX solution. According to a recently published quarterly report from Maravedis, a number of around 400,000 BWA/WiMAX subscribers were added in the first quarter ...

13 July 2009
09:11 GMT

Clearwire Launches 4G Services in Atlanta

Clearwire Communications, LLC, the operating subsidiary of Clearwire Corporation, has announced today the launch of its 4G WiMAX wireless broadband network Atlanta. Through this launch Atlanta becomes one of the fastest unwired cities in the South, while the CLEAR service is available for more than three million peop...

16 June 2009
09:07 GMT

Clearwire's WiMax Services Already Available in Las Vegas

According to the latest news, Clearwire's WiMax services are already available for purchase for those who live in Las Vegas, even though the company plans to officially launch them only during the summer. Clearwire already confirmed the fact that it started selling its services in the area, while also announcing...

10 June 2009
08:43 GMT

Intel Invests US$43 Million in Japanese WiMAX Carrier

Santa Clara, California-based leading chip maker Intel has invested US$43 million in a Tokyo-based WiMAX operator that plans to launch the world's fastest WiMAX service on July 1. The investment further proves Intel's commitment to an accelerated adoption of this next-generation wireless technology, providi...

9 June 2009
08:34 GMT

Clearwire and Cisco Team Up for 4G Expansion

Clearwire Corporation announced on Wednesday a partnership with Cisco, aimed at the enhancement and expansion of CLEAR 4G mobile WiMAX services in the United States. According to the agreement, Cisco will become Clearwire's national Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) infrastructure provider, whil...

14 May 2009
03:12 GMT

Acer Joins OPA, Plans to Promote WiMAX

Acer Inc., one of the world's leading vendors of personal computer systems, has just announced that it has joined the Open Patent Alliance (OPA), in an effort to accelerate and promote the adoption of WiMAX technology. With the announcement Acer becomes the first PC OEM member of OPA, a group that is meant to de...

11 May 2009
11:05 GMT

Dell Brings WiMAX Option for Studio 15, 17 and XPS 16

With the fast growth of WiMAX-enabled networks, system vendors are beefing up their products to provide users with support for this new wireless technology. Such is the case with Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, which has recently updated the configuration options on three of its laptops, allowing customers to take adva...

6 May 2009
09:11 GMT

WiMAX Down, LTE Goes Up, Says Nokia

When it comes to the future of the wireless technologies most of the industry players would rather go for LTE (Long Term Evolution) rather than choose WiMAX, which is just another face of the future 4G networks that are expected to start rolling out during the ongoing year. However, both WiMAX and LTE have their ow...

3 April 2009
06:44 GMT

Samsung Officially Intros Mondi WiMAX Device

Samsung Mobile announced on Tuesday the release of its Samsung Mondi mobile WiMAX-enabled handheld device aimed at the US market, which has been spotted in the wild not long ago. According to the company, the new handset, which has been named after the Latin word for “world,” will come with support for th...

1 April 2009
03:48 GMT

Top 22 WiMAX Carriers to Double Subscribers in 2009

A recently published report from Maravedis shows that the world's top 22 WiMAX operators are expected to account for around 2.5 million subscribers by the end of the ongoing year, more than double the 1.24 million today. At the same time, the number of their subscribers is expected to reach nearly 4 million by t...

30 March 2009
10:04 GMT

Huawei Wins Network Deals in the US

According to the latest news on the Web, the Chinese communications equipment maker Huawei has managed to ink a deal with cable operator Cox Communications to launch a cell phone service this year, and might also make another one with Clearwire for the deployment of the carrier's nationwide 4G wireless network, ...

27 March 2009
12:19 GMT

New Samsung WiMAX Device Spotted

According to the latest news on the Web, Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is expected to announce next week at CTIA a new Windows Mobile-powered device that should work with Clearwire's network, namely the Samsung SWD-M100 Mondi mobile WiMAX device. What the phone maker has to say about its new device is that i...

27 March 2009
06:58 GMT

Sprint Unveils Plans to Expand Its WiMAX Network

Sprint has announced today that it intends to extend the availability of its 4G WiMAX network to more markets in the United States this year, including cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland and Seattle, which will all benefit from its technology by th...

26 March 2009
04:54 GMT

Sprint Rumored to Be Interested in LTE As Well

It seems that Sprint is not determined to remain stuck with WiMAX after all. The company is reported to be testing Long Term Evolution (LTE) equipment, the 4G technology that appears to attract more and more industry players these days, although the company owns 52 percent of the stakes in Clearwire, which is current...

10 March 2009
12:11 GMT

WiMAX in Over 80 Cities by 2010, Says ClearWire

It’s a common fact that ClearWire started to deploy WiMAX networks last year, and it seems that the company plans to extend its coverage over around 80 cities in the United States. Up until now, only Portland and Baltimore have seen WiMax wireless broadband connectivity, yet the services will come to more areas...

9 March 2009
02:10 GMT

Nokia Goes for LTE Handsets

It seems that we might be able to see some Nokia LTE mobile phones in the not so far future, at least this is what the latest news would suggest. In addition, the mobile phone maker is also expected to work on its partnership with Verizon, so that the LTE handsets would be launched with the cell phone carrier. A Nok...

6 March 2009
05:55 GMT

Intel and Huawei Collaborate on New WiMAX Test Lab

Intel, one of the world's leading manufacturers of computer processors, has recently announced its extensive support for the ongoing development of the WiMAX technology. The company, along with Huawei Technologies, has announced the launch of a new WiMAX Interoperability Testing (IOT) laboratory in Beijing. The ...

17 February 2009
05:08 GMT

Nokia Axes Its N810 Internet Tablet WiMax Edition

Nokia has announced that it is discontinuing the recently released N810 Internet Tablet WiMax Edition. The company is set to end both production and distribution of the device although WiMAX has just been launched in the United States. The tablet was introduced in October, at the same time with the release of WiMax i...

8 January 2009
08:38 GMT

Samsung Plans on Producing Its Own 4G Chips

According to the latest news on the Web, Samsung Electronics is working on its own WiMAX and LTE baseband chips meant for wireless handsets. The Korean electronics maker is said to be making this move as there is a great opportunity in the transition the industry is making towards 4G. Samsung has developed its own ap...

30 December 2008
10:08 GMT

HTC T8290 Will Support WiMAX and GSM

Clearly, Taiwanese mobile manufacturer HTC is having an excellent year. After bringing the HTC Diamond to users out there, it moved directly to making the first Google Android phone, the G1 for T-Mobile. Now, recently leaked information has it that HTC is working on a HTC T8290 phone that, apparently, supports not on...

11 October 2008
04:01 GMT

ASUS' M50Vm Notebook Features WiMAX

ASUS announced on Wednesday that its new M50Vm-A1WM notebook featuring WiMAX is available effective immediately. WiMAX is the latest wireless broadband technology with enormous capabilities of delivering rich data experience and allows entire cities to drop the wire. While coming with a built-in WiMAX module, the new...

11 October 2008
03:52 GMT

Acer Is Planning WiMAX Aspire One

Yesterday was undoubtedly the WiMAX day, as most of the leading computer systems vendors rushed to offer their support for the launch of the first WiMAX network in the United States. As we reported, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo and others announced their support for WiMAX, which came either as a new product or as an option...

10 October 2008
03:13 GMT

WiMAX Is Here, HP and Dell Choose to Play It Safe

While Toshiba, Acer and Lenovo, three of the leading PC vendors, have already introduced their support for the recently launched WiMAX wireless network in Baltimore, the two biggest names in the field, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, are yet to come forth with WiMAX support for their own notebooks. The two companies have ...

9 October 2008
05:08 GMT

Acer Brings Forth Two WiMAX-Enabled Aspire Notebooks

Yesterday was an interesting day as many PC vendors had the opportunity of introducing their WiMAX-enabled portable systems, in support of XOHM's launch of the nation's first US WiMAX wireless broadband network. Like Toshiba and Lenovo, Acer America is also among the first systems vendors to announce their...

9 October 2008
04:12 GMT

Lenovo Enables WiMAX on ThinkPad and IdeaPad Notebook PCs

It looks like Lenovo is also among the first systems vendors to announce their support for the next-generation WiMAX wireless network, which is expected to become the next widespread wireless standard. The company has announced that it will make enable some of its current ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebooks to support WiM...

9 October 2008
03:39 GMT

Toshiba Comes Out with WiMAX-Enabled Satellite Notebook

As major industry players dive in the adoption and deployment of WiMAX, it appears that some of the first WiMAX-enabled notebooks are beginning to make their debut on the market, thus allowing users to take full advantage of the benefits brought by the next generation WiMAX technology. One of recently introduced WiMA...

9 October 2008
03:07 GMT


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