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WISPAmerica 2013

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 18th, 2013

WISPAmerica 2013 starts in two weeks in Covington, KY (Cincinnati). It’s the largest conference held to discuss national spectrum efficient techniques, sharing of unlicensed and licensed spectrum and the development of cost effective ubiquitous broadband networks. The conference agenda also includes 60 wireless infrastructure manufacturers, software companies, cloud service providers, VoIP solution providers. This spring’s [...]

Free WiFi Apps from Ruckus

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 12th, 2013

Ruckus Wireless unveiled a family of four new Smart Wi-Fi mobile applications to provide system integrators, value-added resellers and network administrators with real-time Wi-Fi performance analysis of Ruckus and third party access points. The new suite of applications developed by Ruckus includes SpeedFlex, S.W.A.T., Zapper, and ZD Remote apps. They are available free of cost [...]

Alvarion Sells Carrier Division

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 22nd, 2013

Alvarion, one of WiMAX’s biggest champions over the years, has sold its carrier licensed division to network vendor Telrad Networks for $6.1 million, marking an end to a business that had seen dwindling revenue as more and more carriers selected LTE. Telrad will integrate Alvarion’s carrier licensed division as a core growth engine for our [...]

Mobily: 400 Terabytes/day on TD-LTE

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 18th, 2013

Mobily, the Saudi Arabia mobile operator that was first carrier to offer TD-LTE service (in September, 2011), announced this month it set a new world record when its LTE network broke through 400 Terabytes a day. Four months after its commercial launch in June 2012, Mobily LTE TDD subscribers total 60,000. Mobily’s transition from WiMax [...]

Clearwire Loses 915,000 Subs

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 13th, 2013

Clearwire’s annual report said its subscriber base declined 8 percent year-over-year to 9.6 million people. The carrier blamed the decline on the fact that Sprint Nextel is no longer selling smartphones that run on Clearwire’s WiMAX network, reports Fierce Wireless. Clearwire’s subscriber base consists of around 1.4 million retail subscribers and 8.2 million wholesale subscribers [...]

FreedomPop Plans Tablet Clip-on LTE Modem

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 4th, 2013

Big talking FreedomPop, which offers a Sprint WiMax clip-on for the iPod, is now planning to get into tablets, reports Forbes.