AT&T announced today that it has agreed to acquire Wayport, a leading provider of managed Wi-Fi services in the United States. The $275 million cash deal will sharply expand the number of hotspots where customers can get Internet access. Wayport currently provides back-office management for AT&T’s Wi-Fi Hot Spots, so the acquisition brings management of [...]
Tuesday’s decision to allow “white spaces” for WiFi-like services on unused television frequencies, represents a new era to provide broadband wireless using unlicensed devices.
One potential use that could come from the decision is neighborhood wireless zones. Carriers could provide, for example, rural broadband Internet access without incurring the huge costs of buying spectrum for [...]
Today’s Federal Communications Commission meeting has been delayed as the five commissioners sought to finalize conditions for Verizon Wireless’s acquisition of Alltel.
The FCC meeting was scheduled to begin at 1100 ET (1600 GMT) but had not yet begun at 1430 ET (1930 GMT). FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told reporters that the other four commissioners were [...]
Tee Emm writes that Pakistan has its claim to fame to mostly negative news in the international media. But the Muslim nation of 160 million (half of which are young adults) is a telecommunications pioneer — with a second nationwide Wimax brand going live from Mobilink Infinity.
Mobilink, which has the highest subscriber base of [...]
Motorola today announced it has completed the industry’s first over-the-air Long-Term Evolution (LTE) data sessions in the 700MHz spectrum using its LTE platform with a prototype LTE device. Motorola says it will bring its LTE solutions to market in 2009.
“This field test shows the progress we’ve made in preparing to deliver a commercial [...]
Phone company FairPoint Communications says Vermonters will get statewide fixed WiMAX, in what appears to be the largest planned U.S. deployment of “fixed wireless” technology yet.
FairPoint has 300,000 phone customers in Vermont, most of whom it acquired from Verizon Communications this year. Three-quarters of them will have access to broadband by the end of the [...]
Intel has signed an agreement with the Taiwan ministry of economic affairs to jointly establish a centre for open-source software and applications. It’s intended to stimulate development of WiMax client devices based on Moblin, the open-source development environment for the Intel Atom processor.
Announcing the deal on Thursday in Taiwan, Intel president and chief executive Paul [...]
Alianza, a provider of voice over WiMAX solutions, and Redline Communications, a WiMAX infrastructure company, today announced interoperability of voice offerings over WiMAX.
Alianza and Redline tested Alianza’s hosted voice platform with Redline’s RedMAX gear as part of the Redline Ecosystem Verification (REV) program. The REV program is Redline’s interoperability testing program. It verifies [...]
Motorola’s co-chief executive, Sanjay Jha, who heads the mobile devices business, has decided to focus on Google’s Android software for many new phones, the WSJ reported today.
Details of the plan, which could include thousands of layoffs, could be announced Thursday, when the company reports its results, the paper said. Motorola is expected to build mid-tier [...]
Peplink just launched two new products in its Balance line of multi-WAN routers, the Balance 20L and Balance 390, for end users and Wireless Internet Service Providers.
The Balance 20L is an affordable dual-WAN router designed for home users. It can aggregate wireless long-haul into a fat pipe. Advanced load balancing distributes traffic to different [...]
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