Category: WiMAX

Nokia today announced that its researchers in Germany have completed a data call over its mobile WiMax 802.16e technology development system. Via [technewsworld.com]

Taiwanese government officials said on Monday they plan to make Taiwan the world's largest testing ground for WiMax, and inked a pact with Intel to work together on the wireless broadband technology. Via [pcworld.com]

Sequans and Wavesat are unveiling this week a chip set and a mini-PCI card reference kit to accelerate WiMax development and deployment. Via [eetimes.com]

The tech industry is getting overheated about the long-range broadband access technology WiMax, according to one Nokia exec. Via [networks.silicon.com]

Although mobile WiMax has captured most of the headlines, and a series of trials by mobile carriers highlights the future of wireless broadband, fixed WiMax “remains the technology’s bread and butter through 2009,” according to a report from Visant Strategies. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

Nortel has announced plans to offer fixed and mobile WiMAX products based on the latest industry standards, and to work with WiMAX companies Intel and Airspan Networks in bringing these products to market. Via [neasia.nikkeibp.com]

With several WiMAX firms crowding the starting gate for formal introduction of the wide area wireless technology, equipment from at least five firms are being evaluated by the WiMAX Forum's Cetecom Labs in Spain. Via [techweb.com]

A hundred people are to take part in WiMAX trials in Belfast and Birmingham as BT tests the water for wireless broadband. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Integrated voice and data communications supplier Covad Communications Group Inc. has agreed to acquire NextWeb, Inc., a fixed-wireless Internet provider, for $24.7 million in cash and stock. Via [commsdesign.com]

The technology for delivering fast Web access over large areas could help upstart communications outfits nab share from established player. Via [businessweek.com]

Navini Networks is on a tear. The vendor is now working with British Telecommunications (BT) on a trial of pre-WiMAX systems for the United Kingdom. Via [wirelessweek.com]

There is a race to deploy wireless broadband using Wimax -technically IEEE 802.16- in Argentina, with two ISPs already boasting about having an operating network in the metropolitan Buenos Aires area, and the two currently engaged in the active deployment and extension of their networks to different cities. In this year's Expocomm exhibition, both players...

A major US mobile carrier is set to launch the first wireless broadband services based on the emerging WiMax standard next year. Via [vnunet.com]

About 45 percent of all WiMAX subscribers in 2009 will be in the Asia Pacific region of the world, according to a study released Wednesday by market research firm In-Stat. Via [eetimes.com]

SkyPilot Networks Inc. is moving broadband mesh into public safety networks by adding 4.9-GHz licensed bands to its product line. The SkyExtender DualBand is a mesh backhaul product supporting both 802.11b/g access services and 4.9-GHz public-safety radio. Via [commsdesign.com]