WiMAX
Clearwire 31-City LTE Launch to Include N.Y., L.A.
April 27, 2012 7:05 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsClearwire says New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle will be among the 31 cities it plans to light up during the first half of next year.
TD-LTE: Ready for Liftoff
March 14, 2012 12:48 pm | by Maisie Ramsay | Articles | CommentsWith China Mobile sent back to the bench, does that mean TD-LTE is out of the running? Not by a long shot.
NewNet Sees Opportunity in WiMAX
February 16, 2012 7:15 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsIt's easy to forget that it wasn't that long ago when the faceoff between LTE and WiMAX felt a lot like that one back in the 1980s between VHS and Betamax.
NewNet to Buy Motorola WiMAX Business from NSN
November 30, 2011 7:06 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsNewNet Communication Technologies LLC on Tuesday said it has agreed to buy the WiMAX business from Nokia Siemens Networks.
Clearwire, UnitedOnline Sign 5-Year WiMAX Deal
November 2, 2011 8:07 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsWhen Sprint announced it would stop using Clearwire's wholesale WiMAX service in favor of its own LTE network last month, Clearwire's stock tanked...
Clearwire Jumps In with LTE, But Funding Questions Loom
August 4, 2011 8:14 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsClearwire plans to add LTE to its WiMAX network in densely populated urban areas...
Hesse: U.S. Back in the Lead With 4G
March 30, 2011 8:40 am | by Maisie Ramsay | Articles | CommentsSprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse has a lot of reasons to be confident about the state of the U.S. mobile broadband market.
Sprint Debuts WiMAX Roaming in Jamaica, Taiwan
January 31, 2011 7:13 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsSprint says some of its customers will be able to get WiMAX service in Jamaica and Taiwan.
WiMAX Operators Tackle Roaming
January 13, 2011 6:44 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsThe WiMAX Forum says a group of WiMAX operators from around the world are working to form global roaming agreements...
All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Antenna
December 13, 2010 12:31 pm | by Steve Caliguri, Acorn Technologies | Articles | CommentsAs 4G networks rise from infancy and become the cool kids of the wireless playground, network operators and device manufacturers make big promises about blazing multimedia performance, zero-lag voice communications and enough apps to guarantee a varsity-caliber revenue boost.
WiMAX Roams into Jamaica, Taiwan
December 9, 2010 7:11 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsSprint has landed its first international WiMAX roaming agreements with Digicel in Jamaica and Global Mobile in Taiwan...
Sprint CEO Talks Clearwire Competition
December 8, 2010 7:09 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsSprint CEO Dan Hesse yesterday talked about Sprint's relationship with Clearwire at D: Dive into Mobile...
Clearwire to Raise $1.1B
December 2, 2010 7:10 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsCash-strapped WiMAX operator Clearwire plans to raise more than $1.1 billion from a debt offering...
Sprint Launches More WiMAX Markets
November 29, 2010 7:19 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsSprint today launched its 4G WiMax service in more U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Miami, Washington, D.C. ...
Sprint, Clearwire Feel the Heat
November 8, 2010 12:16 pm | by Maisie Ramsay | Articles | CommentsClearwire and its majority shareholder, Sprint, have operated in a vacuum, turning on their mobile broadband network on in more than 60 markets...
T-Mobile Expands HSPA+, Calls It 4G
November 3, 2010 8:37 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsAfter months of flirting with the marketing around its HSPA+ network, T-Mobile USA dropped all pretenses as it turned on the service in six new markets, billing the service as 4G.
Network Crashing? Poor Battery Life? Mobile Apps Might Be the Problem
November 2, 2010 3:27 pm | by Michael Luna, SEVEN | Articles | CommentsThe proliferation of data usage has led to significant problems with call completion and Internet access in urban areas like San Francisco and New York. One New Yorker was told that up to 30 percent of iPhone calls are dropped on average.
DPI Comes to Fore in Network Management
November 1, 2010 7:46 am | by Maisie Ramsay | Articles | CommentsDeep packet inspection and other network management tools will become commonplace as WiMAX and LTE networks scale across the globe.
Key Service Provider 4G Considerations
October 28, 2010 6:32 am | by Eran Eshed, Altair Semiconductor | Articles | CommentsWhen Sony launched Aibo in 1999, the product received much acclaim. It was soon-after named one of “The Best of What’s New” products by Popular Science magazine, and held the promise of someday being “genuinely useful,” according to the magazine’s write-up.
LTE, WiMAX Near 4G Status with ITU Vote
October 21, 2010 8:06 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsThe International Telecommunication Union (ITU) brought LTE and WiMAX one step closer to official 4G status at the close of a week-long meeting in Chongqing, China.
Clearwire WiMAX to Hit NYC, LA, San Fran
October 18, 2010 8:23 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsClearwire has finally announced the launch dates for its WiMax network in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Broadcom Details Beceem Acquisition
October 14, 2010 8:18 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsBroadcom will buy its way into the 4G chip market with its acquisition of Beceem, which it announced yesterday.
Part 1: Why LTE?
October 12, 2010 6:21 pm | by Keith Cobler, Tektronix Communications | Articles | CommentsAccording to the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), as of August 2010 there are 101 firm LTE network deployments planned or in progress in 41 countries around the world. By the end of 2010, GSA anticipates around 22 LTE networks in commercial service.
Seybold’s Take - Building LTE Networks
September 25, 2010 6:39 pm | by Andrew Seybold | Articles | CommentsVerizon Wireless is about to launch the first part of its 700-MHz LTE broadband network, Metro PCS is doing the same, and AT&T is not far behind. In the rest of the world, there are many LTE networks being built and readied for launch on different portions of the spectrum.
Why WiMAX Is Wobbling
September 17, 2010 6:55 am | by Dan Warren, GSMA | Articles | CommentsSo, why hasn't mobile WiMAX gained more traction? On paper, it has considerable promise – it uses many of the same advanced technologies as LTE, including OFDM and MIMO on the radio interface. But in practice...
