Russian WiMAX operator Yota is undertaking an extraordinary migration of its 300,000 customers in Moscow from WiMax services to LTE, says Light Reading, planning to switch them overnight on April 14 rather than let them migrate over time as originally planned. Yota has been a WiMax broadband wireless services pioneer, building its business in Russia [...]
Light Reading has created an LTE map of the United States, showing current areas served by AT&T, Verizon and Sprint LTE. Verizon Wireless is maintaining a solid Long Term Evolution (LTE) lead over other carriers, since they had more than a year head start and Sprint’s LTE service won’t begin until this summer. Verizon is [...]
In cities and towns across the U.S., a familiar story is replaying itself: Powerful companies are preventing local governments from providing an essential service to their citizens. More than 100 years ago, it was electricity. Today, it is the public provision of communications services, says Susan Crawford in a Bloomberg opinion column. The Georgia legislature [...]
PureWave says its PureWave Quantum base stations can achieve 900MHz-like coverage in the semi-licensed 3.65GHz band in commercial deployments. Cal-Ore, one of their customers, say they are seeing real world coverage figures in the 3.65GHz band that are competitive with 900MHz and 2.4GHz networks, but with network speeds that are higher by a factor of [...]
Today the WiMAX Forum announced that effective February 1st, 2012, Ronald Resnick will retire from his role as the President of the WiMAX Forum. “Mr. Resnick has been a valued part of the WiMAX leadership for the past eight years,” said Dr. Mohammad Shakouri, Interim Chairperson of the WiMAX Forum. “The WiMAX Forum would like [...]
The International Telecommunications Union this week approved the IMT-Advanced specifications enabling 100 Mbps speeds. IMT Advanced incorporates two different 4G standards, one based on WiMax and one based on LTE. LTE performance is upgraded with LTE Advanced, while WiMax is upgraded to WirelessMAN-Advanced (also called WiMAX 2). LTE-Advanced” (based on LTE) and WirelessMAN-Advanced” (based on [...]
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