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The unceremonious departure of Sprint Nextel CEO Gary Forsee has inevitably prompted speculation that the operator will pull back on its commitment to WiMAX and a planned leapfrog into 4G-class services, an outcome that would shake the whole WiMAX world, such a cheerleader has its favourite cellco become. But...

WiMAX operator UK Broadband, a subsidiary of Hong Kong giant PCCW, has scored a major victory in its often tortured plans to provide mobile broadband services across Britain. The UK regulator, Ofcom, has said it will amend the provider’s 3.4GHz license to allow full mobile hand-off, enabling the company...

Portable WiMAX devices are coming to market now as Samsung showed recently with two new products - a smartphone/PDA and an Ultra Mobile Windows PC, plus two accessories that will turn any laptop or desktop into a WiMAX compatible computer. The product launches illustrate that the rest of the...

Huawei took a keen interest in WiMAX from an early stage, but concrete results were slow to follow, until now, when it has announced an end-to-end product roadmap, and started to show up in operators’ shortlists — most recently, up against Alcatel-Lucent with Summa Telecom in Russia. The Chinese...

Sprint's acting CEO Paul Saleh told investors that Sprint is seriously considering selling its stake in the WiMAX network it has been building. This could be a deathblow for WiMAX's future. At least for the short term. And it would leave Sprint without a 4G strategy. Ever since former...

A WiMAX network debuted in Tanzania last month as the service was offered in the African country's commercial center in Dar es Salaam. Eventually a nationwide WiMAX grid is planned covering six major cities, according to Redline Comunications. The deployment is a partnership of Canada's Redline, South Africa's RapidCloud...

WiMAXCounts is now in a strong position to monitor the early ramp in deployments and subscriber growth on an ongoing basis. WiMAXCounts Quarterly Report released on November 6 brings forward key findings that rise critical interest in the industry. As an example this quarter report confirm that we can...

For years, the Middle East and Africa (MEA) has been the least connected region of the world. However, the lack of wired telecom infrastructure such as cable or DSL opens up big opportunities for wireless access technologies such as WiMAX to provide broadband Internet to the many rural and...

This article is in response to a recent question I received regarding 802.16j Mobile Multi-hop Relay (MMR) and 802.16m IMT-Advanced standards and commercial developments. I have discussed over the past few years the development of a “middle tier” of wireless network requirements. More recently I have renamed this SDWBBN,...

The new Strategy Analytics report, “WiMAX MVNOs: Just Crazy Enough to Work?” depicts scenarios that show that the WiMAX environment may actually prove to be more receptive to the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) business model than the cellular world. Earlier this year, Synterra, one of the largest Russian...