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Sprint 4G official for Boston, Daytona Beach, Providence

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:05:00 GMT

A day after it launched the Samsung Epic 4G, Sprint today grew its WiMAX footprint in three key areas. The 4G-level service is now officially active in Boston, Daytona Beach and Rhode Island's capital Providence. The areas now have the option of unlimited access at the 3-6Mbps downstream speeds estimated for the network. Besides its new smartphones, Sprint is supplying the Overdrive pocket router and its typical USB modem lineup for Macs and PCs....

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Wimax looks to India to counter LTE

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:16:00 GMT

DNA caught up with Resnick, the president and chairman of WiMAX Forum, the standards organisation, to find out what he's doing to convince Indian operators to join his side.

Samsung Epic 4G Listed For $199.99 At Amazon

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:22:37 GMT

Samsung Epic 4G Sprint's second Android-powered handset with WiMax capabilities, the Samsung Epic 4G, is available for preorder on Amazon.com for less than the carrier's list price.

Clearwire starts up Rover prepaid 4G, intros Puck hotspot

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:40:00 GMT

Clearwire today kickstarted prepaid data today by launching a new service, Rover, and launching a new hotspot to match. The approach is based solely on time rather than data and gives unlimited WiMAX within a given period: users can pay as little as $5 for a single day, $20 for a week or $50 for a whole month. Rover is built with a younger audience in mind and can be activated or extended with Re-Up prepaid cards rather than having to use a credit card....

Korea's KT guns after iPad, Galaxy Tab with Identity Tab

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:55:00 GMT

Korean cell carrier KT today upended the tablet market in its home country by launching its own model both ahead of Apple and Samsung. The Identity Tab is a seven-inch Android 2.2 tablet, much like the Galaxy Tab, but is aimed distinctly at Koreans signing on to its service. It comes with a DMB TV tuner for over-the-air digital video in the country and, when attached to KT, arrives with a WiBro (WiMAX) card for 4G, albeit likely for sharing data from a nearby computer....

Intel acquires Infineon's wireless group for $1.4B, picks up 2G, 3G, LTE tech

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:56:20 GMT

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

The world's largest chipmaker, Intel Corp. announced Monday morning that it will be acquiring the Wireless Solutions (WLS) business from German semiconductor company Infineon Technologies AG for approximately $1.4 billion. Last year, the division held about 11% of the global cellular baseband market.

"The global demand for wireless solutions continues to grow at an extraordinary rate," Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO said in a statement today. "The acquisition of Infineon's WLS business strengthens the second pillar of our computing strategy - Internet connectivity - and enables us to offer a portfolio of products that covers the full range of wireless options from WiFi and 3G to WiMAX and LTE."

In July, Intel shut down its WiMAX Program office, and rumors arose that the company was backing off from supporting the WiMAX wireless standard in the face of rising support for LTE. Bill Kircos Director, Product and Technology Media Relations at Intel's Global Communications Group sought to quell such rumors, and said, "There has never been one single wireless standard out there, and WiMAX, LTE, 3G et al will all co-exist. And who knows, others will probably pop up, too, in the coming years. As we've said before, 4G WiMAX and LTE are very similar and Intel could support both technologies. Should LTE or other wireless technologies flourish, common sense says we'd be foolish to not ensure our ambitious Atom processor growth plans in cars, phones, netbooks, tablets, TVs etc. supported multiple wireless formats."

Infineon's wireless division, likewise, has products supporting both standards, including dual-band WiMAX, WLAN chips, and 2G/3G/LTE RF Transceivers. Intel says it will bring together its Wi-Fi and WiMAX offerings with WLS' leadership in 2G and 3G, and then take "a combined path to accelerate 4G LTE."

The cellular baseband market was led by Qualcomm and MediaTek, who held a combined 56% of the total revenue last year. But the market is changing shape as smartphones gradually replace the feature phones most consumers own.

Last week, Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technology analyst Sravan Kundojjala said, "A chip vendor's success in the smartphone world comes from scoring design wins at top-tier smartphone OEMs and supporting software platforms that have market momentum. This is one of the reasons why baseband vendors missed the smartphone boat as many of them were focusing on feature phone and basic phone segments. We think there is enough room for dynamism in the smartphone processor market as new entrants like Intel come into the value chain. If Intel acquires Infineon, as rumoured, that could put more pressure on standalone processor vendors, such as NVIDIA, that currently lack baseband products."

HTC Evo 4G returns to online Sprint sales next week

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:25:00 GMT

Sprint today said that it would finally return the Evo 4G to its online store next week. The company still says it's encountering shortages but is comfortable with expanding the Android phone's sales once more. It still costs $200 on a two-year contract with Sprint's WiMAX-supporting $80 plan....

Verizon: Advent of 4G LTE, WiMAX-Based Devices Will Only Increase the Need for IPv6

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Verizon Business has a message to companies still reluctant to migrate their networks to IPv6: You're better off doing it now than later. William Schmidlapp, Verizon Business's product manager for Internet dedicated access services, says that the advent of 4G LTE and WiMAX-based devices will only increase the need to switch over to IPv6, since each of those devices will require its own IP address…

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A Stellar Galaxy, This One With a Keyboard

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:01:44 GMT

The latest Samsung Galaxy, the Epic from Sprint, sports a slide-out keyboard and works on the 4G WiMax network.

Digicel launches Wimax network in Jamaica

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:32:58 GMT

Digicel has launched its Wimax network in Jamaica. Overall investments in the broadband network launch reached JMD 2 billion, the company said. Customers can now access the Digicel 4G Broadband servic...

Liberty footwear walks into telecom; ties up with Israeli firm

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:41:07 GMT

Footwear major Liberty group today announced its entry into telecom sector and has tied up with Israel-based Runcom Technologies to offer WiMax mobile broadband and communication solutions.

Liberty footwear walks into telecom; ties up with Israeli firm

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:41:07 GMT

Footwear major Liberty group today announced its entry into telecom sector and has tied up with Israel-based Runcom Technologies to offer WiMax mobile broadband and communication solutions.

7th WiMAX INDIA 2010 conference held in Delhi

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:54:45 GMT

gstek said in the Telecom Forum:

WiMax, The Next level of wireless broadband Technology was today discussed by Industry leaders in 7th WiMAX INDIA 2010 conference in Delhi organized by Bharat Exhibitions.

Taiwan market: Global Mobile may launch WiMAX voice service in October

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:47:30 GMT

Chloe Yu, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Thursday 19 August 2010] Global Mobile, one of the six WiMAX operators in Taiwan, is poised to offer voice communication service through its WiMAX network as early as October 2010, according to the company.

WiMAX 2 planned to top 100Mbps in real world by 2012

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:40:00 GMT

Intel's upcoming WiMAX 2 standard should be much faster than the existing standard in practice, the WiMAX Forum's marketing lead Declan Byrne said this weekend. Existing WiMAX often tops at just 3-6Mbps according to estimates from Clear and Sprint, but the new 802.16m version should provide average speeds over 100Mbps, Byrne told Computerworld. Range would be the same as it would use the same frequencies, such as the 2.5GHz band in the US....

WiMax 2 to Roll Out in 2012

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:21:26 GMT

The industry group behind the WiMax standard said it plans to release its new technology, capable of download speeds of 100-megabits-per-second, in 2012.

Epic 4G review

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:01:00 GMT

Of the seemingly countless variants of the Galaxy S that Samsung's in the process of deploying around the globe, one stands out in a couple very unique (and important) ways: Sprint's Epic 4G . The Epic hangs on to a couple of the Galaxy line's most important characteristics -- namely the 1GHz Hummingbird processor and the 4-inch Super AMOLED display -- but adds in a sliding landscape QWERTY keyboard, support for the wickedly fast WiMAX network that Sprint shares with partner Clearwire, and a handful of other notable one-off customizations.

We've already taken a look at two of the other US-bound Galaxy S models -- AT&T's Captivate and T-Mobile's Vibrant -- but it shouldn't take more than a quick glance at the Epic to tell you that this is a very, very different beast. Becoming just the second WiMAX phone released in the States (and the first with a physical keyboard), this is a pretty critical release for Sprint at a time when its subscriber count is just starting to pick up after several quarters of decline -- and making things even more interesting is the fact that Sprint's first WiMAX handset -- HTC's EVO 4G -- is simply one of the best phones we've ever reviewed. In other words, yeah, you could say that the Epic's got a lot to live up to. Is it up to the task? Let's find out.

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WiMAX 2 standard, and its theoretical 1Gbps downloads, to be finalized soon

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:49:45 GMT

While WiMAX isn't exactly streaming through the air everywhere at this point, domestically it has a solid head-start on LTE .

WiMAX 2 standard, and its theoretical 1Gbps downloads, to be finalized soon

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:10:00 GMT

While WiMAX isn't exactly streaming through the air everywhere at this point, domestically it has a solid head-start on LTE . Despite that, with many major players (like Verizon and AT&T) already choosing the latter of those two, WiMAX has a tough fight ahead of it for 4G supremacy. Maybe its successor will charm the competition, WiMAX 2 -- the artist formerly known as 802.16m. That standard will boast theoretical speeds of 1Gbps for downloads, though users are rather more likely to see something in the 100Mbps range (still a huge jump over what gets an Evo 4G user excited today). When can we expect all this bandwidth? The standard is due to be finalized in November, then hardware is expected to be ratified through 2011 before getting bolted to towers in 2012 where it will, thankfully, be fully compatible with O.G. WiMAX devices. Something good to look forward to, or too little too late to hold off the LTE hoards?

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Will 4G revolutionise wireless broadband for J'cans? Digicel says yes

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:28:08 GMT

Having cemented its position as the leader in the local mobile market, Digicel has now set its sights on revolutionising the personal Internet market with its residential '4G' WiMax broadband service, whose launch will be announced on Friday.

San Francisco in Verizon's initial 30-market LTE rollout?

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:27:00 GMT

We've already heard how Verizon expects to hit the ground running on LTE, starting this November with a launch in 30 markets -- New York, LA, Philadelphia, and so forth. Now it looks like you can add San Francisco to that aggressive list, if Boy Genius Report's leak proves true. Will it beat WiMAX to the region? Your move, Sprint.

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Good News on Several Fronts for 4G

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:48:52 GMT

The maturing of 4G – generally defined as either Long Term Evolution (LTE) or WiMax – has been even more interesting than usual during the past couple of weeks. Clearwire, the sponsor of the Clear service, is the most significant backer of WiMax.

Sprint prices and dates Samsung Epic 4G, decides to offer reservations

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:23:06 GMT

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Sprint's second WiMAX phone, the Samsung Epic 4G will be available on August 31 in Sprint, Radio Shack, Best Buy and Wal-Mart stores for $249.99, the wireless operator announced Thursday.

Beginning August 13, customers will be able to reserve an Epic 4G on a special page on Sprint's website to guarantee they will receive one on launch day. Sprint's first 4G phone, the HTC EVO 4G, was sold out for weeks after the device launched, and according to Sprint, this will be the first time it has ever done this sort of reservation proccess.

So far, Samsung's Galaxy S series has received highly favorable reviews for being powerful, slim, light, and attractive. The demand for the Epic is potentially quite high, especially if a lot of subscribers held off from buying the EVO for its lack of a keyboard.

Most of the details of the Epic 4G were already announced in June, so there are no surprises with this launch. The device's main features are mostly the same as the other Samsung Galaxy S devices (Captivate, Vibrant, and Fascinate): 1GHz Hummingbird Processor, 4" Super AMOLED screen, and Android 2.1 with TouchWiz 3.0. However, it is worth noting that the Epic is not only the sole 4G Samsung Galaxy S device, but it is also the only one with a keyboard, and the only one with dual cameras for video chatting.

According to statements from Sprint's 4G partner Clearwire last May, there will be one more 4G phone released in 2010 after the Epic 4G. It is expected to be another device from HTC, but little is known outside of that.

Clear's iSpot gets easy hack to run on non-iOS devices

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:45:00 GMT

A simple hack is now available for the Clearwire iSpot 4G WiMax mobile router that will lets users connect non-iOS devices. The unlock is said to go without shell commands and also enables a USB tether mode. A warning lets users know a Clearwire warranty and service plan will likely be voided if the hack is performed....

Sprint rolls out 4G-only U1901 USB modem

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:22:00 GMT

It seems a little early in the game to be going to WiMAX -only gear when dual-mode EV-DO / WiMAX modems are readily available -- but if you're feeling confident that your town's 4G rollout is rock-solid, you might want to take a crack at Sprint's new U1901 USB stick. Interestingly, it's got an accessory docking cradle (not included) with an external antenna to boost reception a bit if you're in shaky coverage, so you might be able to pull a signal with this setup in places where you otherwise wouldn't -- but still, not having EV-DO as a cushy fallback would take some stones. It's available now for $49.99 on contract; follow the break for Sprint's press release.

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Sprint rolls out simple U1901 4G modem for Macs, PCs

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:25:00 GMT

Sprint bolstered its 4G modem mix on Tuesday by adding a new, straightforward 4G modem. The unbranded U1901 provides WiMAX alone but is designed to work out of the box for both Intel Macs and Windows users through a disc-free install. It has two antenna ports to boost reception in a docking cradle and has a rotating USB connector to fit into the MacBook Air and other notebooks with a tight fit....

Clearwire LTE Tests Shouldn't Alarm HTC EVO 4G Users (PC World)

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:54:00 GMT

PC World - Fourth-generation (4G) wireless broadband is still in its infancy, and the nation's cellular carriers are working out the kinks of their respective 4G implementations. AT&T and Verizon Wireless plan to implement Long Term Evolution (LTE) service either late this year or early into the next. And Sprint, in conjuction with Clearwire, a small carrier it has a controlling interest in, is already using WiMax for its 4G service in a few dozen U.S. markets.

Clearwire To Hedge WiMAX Bet By Adding LTE for 4G (NewsFactor)

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:22:07 GMT

NewsFactor - Wireless Internet provider Clearwire, which pioneered the 4G WiMAX network with its partner, Sprint Nextel, will hedge its bets by branching out into another 4G technology, LTE. Long Term Evolution is the standard that will soon provide 4G coverage for Verizon Wireless and AT&T's network as well as markets around the world.

Clearwire To Hedge WiMAX Bet By Adding LTE for 4G (NewsFactor)

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:22:07 GMT

Clearwire To Hedge WiMAX Bet By Adding LTE for 4G

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:22:07 GMT

Wireless Internet provider Clearwire, which pioneered the 4G WiMAX network with its partner, Sprint Nextel, will hedge its bets by branching out into another 4G technology, LTE. Long Term Evolution is the standard that will soon provide 4G coverage for Verizon Wireless and AT&T's network as well as markets around the world.

Clearwire announced Wednesday that it will begin testing a new network in Phoenix, Ariz., with Huawei Technologies, the infrastructure provider that deployed the first commercial LTE network in Europe. Clearwire now uses the same spectrum band and flexible base-station platform in the United States.

'Technology Agnostic'

Clearwire isn't giving up on WiMAX. The Kirkland, Wash.-based company, which describes itself as "technology agnostic," is still committed to WiMAX for its current 4G plan. But with a growing number of LTE devices expected to be available in coming years -- Samsung and MetroPCS last week won approval for the first LTE phone -- Clearwire wants to conduct technical trials to see how it could have the best of both worlds.

"WiMAX provides us with unique advantages to meet the needs of our customers today," said Dr. John Saw, Clearwire's chief technology officer. "Ultimately, consumers don't care about technical acronyms, but they do care about quality and affordable Internet services that work where and when they want, and that's what we're focused on delivering."

Clearwire's plan shows how tech companies may adapt to the rapidly changing wireless landscape by covering as many bases as they can, creating bridges between current and future technologies.

"WiMAX is certainly getting broad adoption internationally where there isn't any underlying broadband like in the U.S. and Europe," said analyst Gerry Purdy of MobilTrax. "As far as Clearwire, they will continue to use WiMAX and partner with Sprint. Look at the Sprint Overdrive [a mobile hot-spot device released in April] as a...

Clear's way forward may be with LTE, not WiMAX

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:26:37 GMT

By Ed Oswald, Betanews

Wireless ISP Clear is the nation's biggest proponent of WiMAX. Along with majority shareholder Sprint, the two companies have repeatedly talked up the wireless technology as a solid option in the path to 4G.

That may now be in question. Clear said late Wednesday that it will be testing LTE in two different variations this fall in Phoenix, Arizona, with a decision to move forward coming by the end of the year. Given the company's massive spectrum holdings, it would be able to offer real world speeds far above any other LTE deployment.

Clear says that the possibility is there to be able to offer speeds of between 20 and 70Mbps, much faster than the 5 to 12Mbps currently promised by its potential competitors. Those fastest speeds would be made possible by using 40MHz of spectrum across two 20MHz channels. It would also test a setup using only one channel, as well as using WiMAX and LTE concurrently.

Analysts believe that Clear could have a working LTE network in place by 2012 if the tests go as planned.

"As we have consistently stated, we remain technology agnostic, but WiMAX provides us with unique advantages to meet the needs of our customers today," chief technology officer Dr. John Saw said. "Part of our technical due diligence at Clearwire is to be prepared to leverage a number of possible opportunities as we future-proof our network, and that's the goal of these tests."

Its reasoning for looking into LTE may be financial too: supporting that technology could open it up to partner with a wireless carrier, of which T-Mobile USA has been mentioned. CEO Bill Morrow told the Wall Street Journal that the nation's fourth biggest carrier could either be an investor or partner depending on how those talks proceed.

That carrier is a natural fit given it has been traditionally spectrum starved, and needs something that could differentiate it from competitors -- in this case a super-fast LTE deployment.

Either way, the company needs funding to build out its current WiMAX network and move past its goal to cover 120 million potential customers in the US by the end of the year. A move away from only one technology may be a requirement in order for it to stay financially sound and competitive against traditional wireless providers.

Clearwire to run LTE-based 4G trials in fall

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:05:00 GMT

Clearwire heightened competition in 4G this evening by saying it would start trials of LTE (Long Term Evolution) late this year. Tests in Phoenix, Arizona will check the viability of service on the existing 2.5GHz band Clearwire uses for WiMAX. The experiment will also check the possibility of dual-mode LTE and WiMAX devices and will often use the same Samsung base station equipment....

Clearwire puts its money where its mouth is, announces LTE trials for later this year

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:05:00 GMT

In spite of its pretty healthy (and growing) WiMAX footprint, Clearwire's been saying for at least a year now that it's seriously technology-agnostic -- undoubtedly a bid to assuage investors' fears that WiMAX could end up losing the 4G race in light of LTE's global momentum. Well, it's finally more than mindless fluff for an earnings call, because the company's getting real with both FDD and TD-LTE trials in Phoenix starting this Fall running through early 2011 that will allegedly push downlink speeds as high as 20Mbps and "showcase unique advantages" of Clearwire's "vast" reserve of spectrum. They'll also be testing LTE's ability to coexist with WiMAX in the same band, presumably in a bid to show that it can migrate down the road without leaving its existing customers high and dry. These guys are still a long way off from committing to LTE for the long haul, but it's a sign that they definitely mean business -- and a sign that Sprint could end up falling in line with Verizon and AT&T after all. Follow the break for the press release.

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Clearwire Considers A Role For LTE Along With WiMAX

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:55:00 GMT

Clearwire said its pending plan to test LTE wireless broadband technology doesn't mean it is dropping WiMAX support, but instead it will support both formats in order to serve a wider range of customer needs.

Clearwire baits bandwidth-hungry iOS users with cheap 4G hotspot

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:07:22 GMT

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

4G network operator Clearwire Wednesday launched a WiMAX hotspot especially designed for Apple's iOS-powered mobile devices called the Clear iSpot.

The iSpot connects to WiMAX signals and provides a WEP/WPA/WPA2-protected hotspot with up to a 150 foot range. It weighs 4.5 ounces, offers about 4 hours of battery life, can connect with up to eight iOS devices simultaneously, and is available until August 5th for a promotional charge of only $29.99 with no contract. The MSRP is $99.99.

The device can then be used on a month-to-month basis for $25 per month. It is locked to work only with iPod Touches, iPads and iPhones. Clear's customer service team can unlock the iSpot to work with non-Apple devices, but it is then subject to Clear's standard service plans.

The big idea behind the iSpot is that it lets Clear capitalize on all of the bandwidth-intensive applications available for the iOS platform like Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Facetime, by giving users a simple, flat unlimited data plan that can be shared among all of their iOS devices.

If you witnessed Sprint's launches of the Overdrive 4G hotspot and the HTC EVO 4G, you saw a lot of executives taking little jabs at competitors' products, especially those from Apple.

The company even went so far as to put out advertisements that mocked AT&T and the iPhone. One of them had a character saying, "My friend Steve's iPhone is cool, but it's limited to AT&T's 3G speeds...So I'm going to use the Overdrive 4G mobile hotspot to make it up to ten times faster. And while that's happening, I'm going to enjoy this tasty snack," at which point the narrator took a bite of an apple.

The carrier then showed off an iPad case with a pocket for the Overdrive, which four months later is still listed as "coming soon," on Sprint's 4G site.

Clearwire is taking a decidedly different approach with the iSpot. Instead of mocking iOS users for not having 4G radios in their devices, it is rewarding them with a plan that is cheaper and less contractually binding than many other portable hotspot plans.

Clearwire expands WiMAX, targets iDevices with iSpot

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:50:40 GMT

Clearwire, operator of the nation’s largest 4G wireless network, made a couple of announcements recently. First, in conjunction with Sprint, they’ve expanded their network to more cities. Second, they’re hoping users of iDevices will jump on that network with their iSpot mobile hotspot. Updated! The WiMAX expansion covers parts of California, Florida, Michigan, and Delaware. This [...]

Defence to get pan-India broadband network

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:23:33 GMT

Ministry to reserve one slot of airwaves For armed forces, Offers Choice Of WiMAX & LTE Tech.

Defence to get pan-India broadband network

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:23:33 GMT

Ministry to reserve one slot of airwaves For armed forces, Offers Choice Of WiMAX & LTE Tech.

Sprint, Clear expand 4G in California, Delaware, Florida

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:10:00 GMT

Wireless provider Sprint and its 4G partner Clear on Monday said they have expanded the network coverage of their WiMAX network to some cities in California, Delaware, Florida and Michigan. The service launches today in Modesto and Stockton in California; Jacksonville in Florida; Wilmington, Delaware; and Grand Rapids, Michigan. The 4G service on either network provides about 3Mbps to 6Mbps in real-world downstream speeds....

MTN, Intel to push broadband in Africa

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:50:00 GMT

Pan African cellular operator MTN and the USA's Intel Corporation are teaming up to improve broadband access in Africa and the Middle East, through initiatives such as WiMax deployment, offering affordable PC bundles for individuals and entrepreneurs and introducing cost-effective internet browsing devices.

'The Shack' downsizes, opens Bullseye Mobile kiosks in many Target stores

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:34:00 GMT

Radio Shack is at it again, expanding your perceptions of the place that once actually sold radio components. A year after that ill-received 'The Shack' marketing campaign the company is now making a rather more substantial move, securing an arrangement with Target stores to see the creation of so-called Bullseye Mobile kiosks. This has started with a 100-store pilot program but, throughout this year and into summer next, the expectation is to prop them up in 1,750 big box locations. Something tells us they won't all be wired up for WiMAX , but we can hope.

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Best Buy to offer 4G wireless service

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:14:55 GMT

Section: Communications, Broadband Cards, Mobile

Best Buy has announced that it will begin offering Clearwire’s 4G WiMax service next year. So far the 4G service is available in 36 cities across the U.S. and later this year New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, and Miami will be added to that list. Clearwire currently offers service through Sprint, Comcast, and Time Warner. In preparation for the launch, Best Buy has introduced three 4G modems, the ClearSpot 4G, ClearSpot 4G+ and the ClearSpot 4G Mobile. The ClearSpot is WiMax only while the 4G+ model and Mobile models also support 3G. Best Buy hasn’t yet revealed a launch date but said it will be offered through it’s Connect service,

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Rover Puck to give pocketable Clearwire 4G

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:55:00 GMT

Clearwire is nearing the addition of an extra compact 4G router on top of its slightly larger Spot 4G models. The Rover Puck has turned up at the FCC for approval and would be very small with a namesake thin, circular design measuring just a few inches in diameter. It would nonetheless tap into Clear's WiMAX network and share it with multiple devices over Wi-Fi....

Sprint Updating EVO 4G To Android 2.2

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:30:58 GMT

Users of the HTC EVO 4G, the first WiMax phone on Sprint's network, will soon enjoy another first for a U.S. wireless carrier: Android 2.2. Sprint says that it will start offering Android 2.2 Froyo to the EVO 4G on Tuesday, August 3. Some of the call-out features that EVO 4G users will notice include Bluetooth voice dialing, Adobe's Flash Player ...

Rover Puck WiMAX hotspot gets FCC'd, traction on ice subject of fierce debate

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:31:00 GMT

The pool of choices for WiMAX hotspots continues to expand, and thanks to the FCC , we now know of another up-and-comer. The Rover Puck -- trademarked by Clearwire and previously unheard of -- joins the ranks Sprint's Overdrive and its various rebrandings by providing pocketable 4G WiFi service. Unlike its predecessors, however, we finally have a new, more aerodynamic form factor. There isn't much to the glean from the user manual at this point, and the oft-referenced Rover website still isn't live -- a WHOIS lookup reveals it was last updated via GoDaddy on July 2008 with no other details disclosed. So , until we get some word from the official news pipelines, a plethora of external / internal photos and user manual screenshots are only a mouseclick away.

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4G Leads Mobile Infrastructure Turnaround

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:51:02 GMT

The painfully slow rebound from the recession finally is being felt in the wireless sector, with a two-year slump likely to end in 2011, at least according to iSuppli . The firm said that worldwide wireless spending, driven by the WiMax and

Indonesia to Sell Three Reclaimed WiMAX Licenses

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:17:28 GMT

Indonesia's government is to auction off a collection of WiMAX licenses after three of the existing eight licenses were reclaimed from their owners.

Taiwan government touts WiMAX investment from 3 Japan-based firms

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:24:28 GMT

Bryan Chuang, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Monday 26 July 2010] Taiwan's minister without portfolio Yiin Chii-ming, former Minister of Economic Affairs, on July 25 led a delegation of government officials to visit 11 enterprises in Japan for business cooperation between them and Taiwan-based enterprises, with the main task of inviting Mitsubishi ...

Telecommunications - Regional - Alvarion seeing demand pick up for WiMax projects

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:50:50 GMT

After a slow 2009, Israeli WiMax equipment supplier Alvarion (Nasdaq: ALVR) has seen an increase in demand in Latin America during the last quarter for WiMax projects with governments and operators, A...

Gemtek recommends Taiwan government invest in WiMAX infrastructure

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:19:51 GMT

Irene Chen, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 21 July 2010] CEO Howard Chen for Gemtek Technology, a maker of wireless broadband communication devices, has recommended that the Taiwan government invest an estimated US$1 billion to build a nationwide WiMAX infrastructure for the six local WiMAX operators to provide MVNO services and ...