What is WiMAX ?
WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a wireless industry coalition dedicated to the advancement of IEEE 802.16 standards for broadband wireless access (BWA) networks.
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AT&T Attempts to Stall Sprint-Clearwire Deal
Aug 25, 2008 4:54 PM
While politely suggesting that AT&T "does not fundamentally oppose the underlying transaction," the big telco nevertheless accuses Clearwire of not accurately disclosing the full amount of 2.5 GHz spectrum.
As we predicted in our Sidecut Report on WiMax, the "new" Clearwire deal, with its heavy-hitter lineup of investors and their $3.2 billion in capital, was sure to attract the attention of the big telcos, namely AT&T and Verizon. In our predictions we guessed that the big telcos would turn up the heat on Clearwire any way they could, and today it looks like we were right since AT&T just filed a rather lengthy complaint with the FCC, suggesting that Clearwire's merger application needs a bit more work.
Huawei announces 802.16e-2005 WiMAX wins in Pakistan and Malaysia
Aug 9, 2008 10:09 PM
Mobilink and Asiaspace build momentum for Huawei's WiMAX infrastructure portfolio.
Huawei Technologies of China announced a pair of mobile WiMAX wins this week. The equipment manufacturer will supply 802.16e-2005 network infrastructure to Mobilink of Pakistan and Asiaspace of Malaysia. As a result of the new customer projects, Huawei claims 19 overseas commercial WiMAX contracts.
Mobilink is the largest GSM operator in Pakistan and a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom. The network will be deployed to central business districts and hot spots including the cities of Faisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Sialkot. Huawei will provide a solution consisting of base stations, Access Service Network (ASN) gateways, and network management system. Work began late last year on the backhaul build-out of 270 wireless links from Canada's DragonWave Inc. Pakistan also has a significant nationwide network under development from Wateen. The Warid Telecom company announced that it had ordered 198,000 CPE based on the 802.16e-2005 standard from Motorola last year.
Mobile WiMax is Being Buried Alive?
July 4, 2008 12:09 PM
By their diagnosis, the future of mobile WiMax seems bleak indeed. However, the image they portray may be oversimplified to WiMax’s disfavor
WiMax news has been dominated by a London research firm’s recent announcement that mobile WiMax might be dead on arrival.
“Recent events have been unfavourable toward Mobile WiMAX,” says Frost & Sullivan’s Programme Manager Luke Thomas, referring to Sprint’s delayed deployment of its commercial WiMax network. The firm then focuses on the two aspects of mobile WiMax:
Are We Headed Towards a 100 Mbps Demand for Broadband Wireless?
July 2, 2008 11:43 AM
Wireline service providers are already starting to deliver 10's of Mbps of service and are talking about 100 Mbps---will broadband wireless soon follow?
I saw a blurb today talking about Verizon's announcement at NXTcomm of an expansion of its 50 Mbps FIOS service to all of its markets. The service, previously only available in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Florida, New Jersey, Rhode Island and New York, will offer 50 Mbps download speeds coupled with 20 Mbps upload capability.
Continue ReadingWiMAX in Pakistan.
July 2, 2008 11:20 AM
Where's WiMAX?
Wateen Telecom (A UAE based subsidiary) has been in the works of deploying one of the largest WiMAX network in Pakistan. This network is being deployed by Motorola under a $60 million (USD) deal to deploy and implement the MOTOwi4™ nationwide wireless broadband voice and data network all over the country.
WiMAX HIstory
The arrival of WiMAX-certified products is a significant milestone in the history of
broadband wireless.
Working of WiMAX
WiMAX has the potential to do to broadband Internet access what cell phones have done to phone access.
