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Sprint: Samsung WiMAX Ready to Go

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 15th, 2008

Sprint and Samsung today declared Mobile WiMax ready for commercial service. Sprint plans on launching commercial WiMax in Washington and Baltimore “later this year”.
Washington and Baltimore joined Chicago in a “soft rollout”, in which Sprint workers use and test the technology, a Sprint spokesman said last week. A Clearwire Mobile WiMax rollout is [...]

Battle of the (Muni) Bands

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 15th, 2008

Portland’s Personal Telco has always had an active list serve discussion. Things are heating up with this week’s announcement by Earthlink to shut down Philadelphia’s Wi-Fi network, the largest in the nation.
Today, it’s the battle of the Tylers (Tyler Booth, President of Stephouse Networks vrs Tyler van Houwelingen, CEO of Azulstar)
Tyler Booth posts:


> I think [...]

Earthlink to Philly: We’re Outta Here

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 15th, 2008

Greg Goldman still sees a future for Wireless Philadelphia, the nonprofit firm set up three years ago to help city residents gain access to Internet service.
Just don’t ask him what it might be, says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Wireless Philadelphia chief executive called reporters to a North Philadelphia street corner yesterday to declare the nonprofit “alive [...]

It’s Official: Sprint, Cable & Google Building WiMAX Network

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 7th, 2008

It’s official. Sprint and Clearwire announced this morning they will form a nation-wide WiMAX network, with partners Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Intel, Google and cable operator Bright House Networks who are expected to kick in $3.2 billion to help finance the venture.

The deal (pdf), announced on Wednesday, will provide funding for Sprint and Clearwire to [...]

Google, Cable in $12B WiMAX Deal?

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 6th, 2008

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
- Once in a Lifetime

Sprint, Comcast, Google, Time Warner and Intel will launch a Mobile WiMAX Joint Venture, says the Wall Street Journal. More [...]

Motorola Mobile WiMAX in Thailand

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 30th, 2008

Motorola is working with Advanced Info Service (AIS), the largest mobile operator in Thailand, to conduct trials of mobile WiMAX. The trials will enable AIS to gain insight into the next generation personal wireless broadband services.
AIS started trials over Motorola’s WiMAX Access Point-400 (WAP-400) platform in Bangkok and Lamlukka in the first quarter of 2008. [...]

Mobile WiMAX Cooking- But Still in the Kitchen

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

It’s impossible to predict the fate of Xohm, says Popular Mechanics. But it’s happening — for better or worse. WiMAX, at least in its fixed iteration, is a done deal.
Alvarion boasts over 200 commercial WiMAX deployments worldwide. Alcatel-Lucent is participating in more than 70 trials and deployments of WiMax technology around the world while [...]

WiMAX Roundup, Australia Unwired

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 23rd, 2008

Australia’s 20 biggest cities could be covered by a A$500 million ($467 million U.S.) commercial-grade mobile WiMax network within two years, reports Computer World.
Joe Nardone, Intel’s global general manager of WiMax business development, told Computerworld that pre-WiMAX operator Unwired has mapped out plans for a national mobile WiMax network. Intel is an investor in [...]

Towerstream Switches to Alvarion 3.65 GHz

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 22nd, 2008

Alvarion today announced commercial availability and FCC authorization for its 802.16e BreezeMAX 3650 base station and customer premises equipment.
“BreezeMAX 3650 leverages the same mature and field-proven Alvarion 802.16e Open WiMAX technology chosen by many operators around the world,” said Adlane Fellah, Senior Analyst and Founder of Maravedis.
The BreezeMAX 3650 supports self-install CPE, with [...]

Intel: $500M for M-Taiwan

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 22nd, 2008

Intel will invest some $500 million in Taiwan’s nationwide WiMax effort, the company announced Monday.
The M-Taiwan program is aimed at covering the island country with Mobile WiMax. While companies from around the world are contributing to Taiwan’s WiMax effort, Taiwan is hoping foreign countries will base much of their manufacturing in Taiwan.
The Taiwan government [...]