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News Mobile WiMax could serve a substantial niche market in the UK but is unlikely to be deployed in any nationwide networks, a member of a key industry group has said. Bluenowhere, a wholesale wireless network operator, is one of the... [23 Jul 2009]
Intel spends $43m on WiMax push
News Chipmaker Intel's venture capital arm has announced an investment in Japanese WiMax company UQ Communications, which intends to provide coverage to most of Japan by 2012. Intel Capital announced the $43m investment on Sunday. [08 Jun 2009]
Rise of the machine-to-machines
News Motorola is turning to the consumer electronics market as it looks to expand its troubled wireless business in new directions. On Tuesday morning, the company will announce plans to sell wireless broadband modules that device makers can... [02 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why are we so wasteful?
Comment Compiled on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via 3G during the same journey As a young man I worked in a number of 'mom and pop' stores and small businesses before joining a state-run enterprise. [28 May 2009]
WiMAX: The Personal Broadband Connection - 4G Wireless
White Paper WiMAX (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) is a 4G wireless technology having service capabilities in regulated and unregulated spectrum (though operators and OEM partners are slowly moving away from using... [23 Apr 2009]
Beamforming Boosts the Range and Capacity of WiMAX Networks
White Paper Having gained tremendous momentum over a number of years, WiMAX is now widely viewed as a leading candidate for Fourth-Generation (4G) wireless data communication. Because WiMAX is based on Internet Protocol (IP), the... [23 Apr 2009]
Mobile WiMAX All Set for Portables
White Paper Mobile WiMAX has emerged as a leading choice for Fourth Generation (4G) cellular technology, and now meets the requirements of new smart phones, mobile Internet devices, and notebook PCs. It provides efficient broadband... [22 Apr 2009]
4G Mobile Networks - Technology Beyond 2.5G and 3G
White Paper Based on the study, 4G mobile technology is in a determining and standardization stage. Although 4G wireless technology offers higher data rates and the ability to roam across multiple heterogeneous... [15 Apr 2009]
Operators pledge LTE love in 4G race
News Twenty-six operators are committed to the long-term evolution 4G standard. While the forum for GSM and 3G suppliers worldwide decidedly has a stake in promoting LTE, the number indicates growing momentum... [06 Mar 2009]
Financial Assessment of Fourth Generation Mobile Technologies
White Paper The main objective of this paper has been to analyze the financial implications of emerging and future technologies in the context of 4G. With a European 4G operator based in the 3G... [02 Mar 2009]
Dongle power users will be booted off 3G first
News As operators start looking at deploying a successor to their 3G networks, power users could be among the first to be shifted onto higher speed mobile networks. Operators' roadmaps to LTE - the predicted upgrade path for... [06 Feb 2009]
LTE gets a tryout in Swindon
News Motorola has launched UK trials of the leading candidate for 4G mobile broadband technology, known as LTE (long term evolution of 3G). The communications equipment maker began the trials at its testing... [04 Feb 2009]
Vodafone trials notch up 16Mbps
News Vodafone has announced the results of its trials of HSPA+, a version of 3G that provides greater speeds than HSDPA. According to the operator, the trials achieved peak data download speeds of 16Mbps. The fastest HSDPA... [16 Jan 2009]
Mobile broadband: You get more data for less lucre
News Mobile operators are being warned not to overreach themselves on mobile broadband offerings as user allowances continue to skyrocket at the same time as prices tumble. While it's good news for consumers that mobile broadband data... [04 Dec 2008]
Photos: Is this the next generation of mini laptops?
Photo Chipmaker Qualcomm has been showing off a prototype touchscreen laptop-to-tablet powered by its 3G Snapdragon chipset, which it claims will enable a new generation of always-on, low-power mobile computing devices ready... [03 Dec 2008]
