Six of the world’s biggest telecommunications companies have completed the construction of the Trans-Pacific Express, a fiber optic cable system across the Pacific. It will directly link the U.S., China, South Korea and Taiwan. Initially the cable will be configured to handle traffic at 1.28 terabits per second (Tbps), but the system has design capacity [...]
NextWave Wireless, which managed to squander most it’s wealth in a few short years, said it will discontinue the operations of its GO Networks unit, which developed wide area Wi-Fi network equipment with beamforming. NextWave, which two weeks ago received a much-needed commitment of $100 million in debt financing, filed a request in Israel to [...]
Alvarion today announced that it will showcase a new WiMAX product portfolio by Accton Wireless Broadband at WiMAX World, in Chicago, October 1-2. AWB’s end-user WiMAX devices are now offered as part of Alvarion’s OPEN WiMAX ecosystem. The display of WiMAX devices will include CPEs, PC cards and USB adapters: WiMAX 802.16e Indoor CPE RG230 [...]
The game’s out there, and it’s play or get played. That simple. – The Wire After what seems like an eternity of delays, XOHM is Live in Baltimore. Baltimore may not be the first city to experience next generation mobile broadband (Idaho Falls, might claim that), but it’s the first from XOHM, Sprint’s WiMAX unit. [...]
“This is one of the greatest days of my life,” said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. SpaceX’s Falcon 1 became the first privately built liquid rocket to orbit the Earth tonight, following in the footsteps of SpaceShipOne which became the first privately built crewed spaceship to fly suborbitally in October 2004. After six years of hard [...]
DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite television provider, said on Friday it has reached an agreement with AT&T to offer a co-branded package of video, home phone, wireless phone and Internet service, starting Feb. 1, 2009. DirecTV will begin selling the service once AT&T’s current partnership with DISH Network expires on Jan. 31. AT&T said current [...]
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