WiMax
RSS WiMaxMobile WiMax to choke out fixed?
News Mobile WiMax may yet kill off its fixed counterpart, analysts believe. A new report from Juniper Research is predicting the number of mobile WiMax subscribers will top 21 million by 2012 - rising from... [01 Aug 2006]
Photos: How GNER's on-board wi-fi works
Photo On the west coast line, Virgin is experimenting with a mix of wi-fi, HSDPA, non-standard WiMax and satellite technology to allow passengers to browse from their seat. GNER's on-board wi-fi works using a combination of a... [27 Jul 2006]
Radioactive: Which way for wireless broadband?
Comment Does Intel's cash injection into the US' Clearwire mean WiMax will win out as the technology for wireless broadband? Intel is already developing dual-mode wi-fi/WiMax chips and will incorporate... [27 Jul 2006]
3.5G to hit same old handset shortages
News Mobile Wimax another broadband wireless option - isn't expected to have a better time of it, according to Informa. However, the analyst said there will be take-up of mobile Wimax, particularly in the... [18 Jul 2006]
French get €1 PCs to bridge digital divide
News De Villepin also announced the French government will be backing WiMax rollouts in rural areas where DSL is unavailable. The French government has launched a PC giveaway scheme to encourage low-income families to get on... [13 Jul 2006]
Qualcomm CEO: PC industry should fear us
News Paul Jacobs, CEO of chipmaker and 3G IP giant Qualcomm, has revealed he believes the mobile industry has little to fear from IT, despite the advent of disruptive technologies such as VoIP and WiMax. Should the likes of... [11 Jul 2006]
WiMax company chalks up $900m backing
News Clearwire, which hopes to install WiMax networks that will cover continents, announced on Wednesday it has received $900m in financing from Intel and Motorola and will work with the two giants to popularise the wireless... [06 Jul 2006]
Virgin Trains get connected with WiMax and HSDPA
News Virgin Trains has opted for WiMax to connect passengers wanting to browse the internet from their seat. The rail company has signed up QinetiQ Rail to provide wireless connectivity for travellers using a mix of wi-fi,... [29 Jun 2006]
Sprint Nextel already looking to 4G
News Sprint Nextel is still testing several technologies but a front-runner in the race is WiMax, which supports peak data download speeds of about 20Mbps, with average user data rates between 1Mbps and 4Mbps. [28 Jun 2006]
Intel flogs off mobile division for $600m
News Intel, on the other hand, maintains the unit is still "an attractive market opportunity" but said it shed the unit to concentrate on its core business and emerging standards such as WiMax. After weeks of speculation,... [27 Jun 2006]
Next gen Linux tablets get Nokia thumbs-up
News WiMax too isn't being ruled out. Virtanen said: "WiMax is one potential radio but we're not committed to it. The thing about WiMax is that it has to happen first but if... [21 Jun 2006]
Wireless networking kit sales on the up
News Another wireless technology, WiMax, is also on the rise, according to Infonetics. In the first quarter of the year, revenue for WiMax equipment rose 48 per cent to $68.3m and annual sales are expected to... [02 Jun 2006]
Business Traveller: Staying connected on planes, trains and automobiles
Comment To cope with the speed of the train, the system installer Nomad Digital has spaced the WiMax base stations at one mile intervals along the track. The service is delivered to users on the train through wi-fi and will use... [02 Jun 2006]
Mobile Broadband Wireless Access
White Paper This paper evaluates the current commercial alternatives to satisfy that need: WiMAX variants, MBWA (IEEE 802.20), Flash-OFDM and 3G technologies. Based on the material, both 3G (HSDPA) and Mobile WiMAX... [24 May 2006]
How Intel covered all of Las Vegas with a working WiMax network
White Paper At the Interop Las Vegas 2005 conference, Intel unveiled an interesting surprise by demonstrating a city-wide WiMax deployment that exhibited speeds of 7 Mbps to 12 Mbps from throughout the city and even out into the... [16 May 2006]
