Category: WiMAX

Nextel Communications says it no longer considers wireless wunderkind WiMax a future option for mobile broadband service, a rare blow to a technology backed by major tech heavyweights. Via [news.com.com]

Intel's financial support helps explain the excitement. Problem is, the wide-radius, superfast "WiFi on steroids" still has a long way to go. Via [businessweek.com]

Jeff Thompson may be afraid of heights, but he appears to be at home on the 81st-floor terrace of the Empire State Building. Via [news.com.com]

Looking for a new medium for home broadband service? A way to hook WiFi (wireless fidelity) hotspots to the Internet without wires? The future digital cellular network? Via [globetechnology.com]

Spain is the latest country to embrace the emerging high-end broadband wireless technology, following recent deployments in France, Ireland and the UK. Via [computerweekly.com]

In an indication that WiMAX will come to market quicker than expected, a Fujitsu Microelectronics America spokesman said the firm expects to deliver silicon to customers in April. Separately, systems manufacturer Wi-LAN Inc. said it plans to offer WiMAX capability in mid-2005. Via [techweb.com]

The WiMAX community has been awash for some time with optimistic predictions about the technology's prospects in the WISP world. A quarter of US wireless ISPs will migrate to WiMAX in 2005-6 and a further 25 per cent in 2007-8, according to ABI. Broadband is now offered by 92 per cent of rural service providers,...

Considering all the buzz these days about WiMax, you'd think the forthcoming wireless broadband technology would face no competition once it arrives next year. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

A high-speed wireless network that covers most of downtown Seattle is being rolled out by Internet service provider Speakeasy. Via [seattlepi.nwsource.com]

Support for emerging WiMax wireless metro-area broadband technology has received a boost with the announcement that industry heavyweights Lucent Technologies, LG Electronics and Huawei Technologies have signed up to the WiMax Forum. Via [vnunet.com]

Companies introducing WiMAX products and services must convince enterprises and service providers that the broadband wireless technology makes economic sense, analysts at the WiMAX World trade show said here today. Via [internetnews.com]

A next-generation wireless broadband network is being created in Kent which will provide high-speed wireless services to residential and business punters in the South East of England. Trials are due to start in January ahead of a full commercial launch by the middle of next year. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Cisco Systems Inc. CTO Charles Giancarlo took a few swings at WiMax, the wireless broadband networking technology also known as IEEE 802.16, yesterday during his brief keynote address at the Next Generation Networks conference in Boston. Via [lightreading.com]

Wired and wireless ISPs are preparing for a healthy debate over the future of VoIP, WiMAX and other provider issues as ISPCON rolls into Silicon Valley this week. Via [internetnews.com]

Proxim has unveiled the Tsunami MP.11 Model 5054-R, the next product in a generation of point-to-multipoint outdoor fixed wireless devices that will serve as a part of a migration platform to WiMax solutions expected in the second half of 2005. Via [computerweekly.com]