Proxim has been selected for a huge WiMAX deployment in Germany. The network will cover over 12,400 square miles (20,000 sq. km.) and will provide service to over 2.5 people upon completion.
Televersa Online, a leading full service telecommunications provider in Bavaria, Germany, will use Proxim Tsunami MP.16 WiMAX products to build its WiMAX network. [...]
The first certified implementation of mobile WiMAX has gone live in a deployment in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Idaho Falls, Idaho, using Alvarion gear. DigitalBridge Communications announced today that its Alvarion-built WiMAX network in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Idaho Falls, Idaho, was now operational, supporting full mobility and high-speed hand-off.
It also plans [...]
The National Emergency Technology Guard (NETGuard) mobilizes a corps of volunteers with technology experience who could help out after a disaster. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon discusses the effort with NPR (audio). It is funded by the Department of Homeland Security.
NET Guard teams may assist local communities in temporarily reconstituting voice, data, and other [...]
Tuesday at the WiMAX Forum Global Congress in Amsterdam, Sprint’s WiMAX CTO said the first commercial Xohm service will start this September in Baltimore. “Mobile WiMAX services will follow in the Washington DC and Chicago markets during Q4 2008. We’re already looking at other markets to launch after that.”
West said over 575 Xohm WiMAX base [...]
”Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s WiMAX!”
- Telephony
The WiMAX Forum this week announced the first ten base stations and clients to have passed their compatibility tests on the 2.5 GHz band, the premier frequency for world-wide wireless compatibility of WiMAX phones and devices. The Forum estimates 100 [...]
The WiMAX Forum today announced the first ten 2.5 GHz Mobile WiMAX products to receive the WiMAX Forum Certified Seal of Approval.
The announcement included four base stations and six mobile station modules (also known as terminals) operating in the 2.5 GHz frequency band from eight WiMAX Forum member companies.
They include basestation and client [...]
Clearwire on Thursday outlined a long-term view of growth for their new WiMAX venture with Sprint, forecasting revenue of over $17.5 billion by 2017.
In a slide presentation to investors, Clearwire said it expected the venture have some 30 million subscribers and cover as many as 220 million people by 2017.
In the nearer term, Clearwire [...]
Webformix announced the launch of several WiMAX transmitters throughout Central Oregon this week. Webformix says they are the first to launch 3.65GHz WiMAX service on the West Coast.
“WiMAX not only allows us to offer a huge increase in speed and range over traditional WiFi technology, but also meets security requirements for HIPAA and military applications,” [...]
WiMAX has been deployed in more than 80 countries worldwide and commercial networks will continue to grow in number and size in 2008, reports Infonetics. Some 2.2 million WiMAX subscribers (fixed and mobile) in 2007 were led by the Asia Pacific region using fixed WiMAX.
Broadband internet connectivity is growing in Asia, but more than [...]
The always cogent Caroline Gabriel says the UK’s upcoming auction of 2.6GHz mobile broadband spectrum is intensely anticipated, partly because it is the first major European market to make the move. But also because it represents the best chance for a WiMAX operator to gain a national license in a leading EU economy.
The UK [...]
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