Tag: WiMAX

Intel has teamed up with South Korea's top fixed-line and broadband operator KT Corp to introduce mobile broadband services into the home market. Via [theinquirer.net]

Several vendors have launched WiMax products recently, but the real effects won't be felt until products based on IEEE 802.16e begin to become available, probably after 2007. Via [informationweek.com]

Mobile phone and network company Nokia and chip giant Intel said on Friday they would step up their efforts and collaboration to make WiMAX a new standard in mobile broadband Internet access. Via [today.reuters.co.uk]

BellSouth plans to test-market wireless broadband service in Athens, Ga., this summer with hopes to expand the trials to selected areas of Florida by year's end. The announcement follows five years of trials of the technology. Via [internetnews.com]

A superfast wireless technology known as WiMax is getting its second wind here in the Windy City. Via [news.zdnet.com]

One of the greatest brakes on progress of cellular services was always the slow and painful path to inter-operator roaming. The complex issues surrounding billing, customer ownership and cross-payments continue to plague the roll-out of every new service, including most recently, MMS messaging. If WiMAX is to achieve broad uptake on an international scale, it...

The introduction of WiMAX wide area wireless networking will offer multiple benefits for businesses and consumers, including lower broadband costs and improved service choice, research published today predicts. Via [vnunet.com]

PCs and laptops loaded with wireless wide area networking 802.16 WiMax cards could hit the mass market much earlier than many observers had expected, research published today had predicted. Via [vnunet.com]

Analysts predict that WiMax will achieve success in the fixed access market within a few years, but are less confident about how its mobile variant will perform. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

Programmable logic supplier Altera Corp. Tuesday (May 24) announced that it has joined the WiMAX Forum, a non-profit organization formed to promote and certify compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based on the IEEE 802.16 standard. Via [commsdesign.com]

Service provider Telabria is starting a city-wide WiMax trial in Canterbury, weeks before it launches its wireless broadband service commercially. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

Huawei Technologies and Intel will cooperate in building carrier-grade wireless broadband networks supporting the new WiMAX / IEEE 802.16 standards and specifications. Via [geekzone.co.nz]

The WiMAX market has not even been launched yet, but activity surrounding it is gathering pace as the estimated launch date for WiMAX equipment draws closer. One of the questions currently exercising the minds of operators and analysts alike is whether it will be possible to upgrade existing wireless-wireline telecommunications equipment to fixed WiMAX standard...

Will WiMax be the connectivity panacea that displaces Wi-Fi, cable and DSL, or will it be irrelevant before it ever reaches the mainstream? Via [searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com]

Pre-WiMAX wireless broadband service aimed at enterprises will be installed to cover Moscow, the vendors involved in the project said Tuesday. Via [commsdesign.com]