4g wimax
Wireless broadband to be cellular feast
News Cellular broadband technologies - such as HSPA (aka 3.5G) and LTE (the next-gen long term evolution of 3G) - will take the largest share, with 20 times as many customers as alternative wireless broadband tech WiMax by... [05 Aug 2008]
Nortel ditches WiMax in 4G race
News Telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks is ditching its WiMax business to focus on a more popular 4G wireless technology. Even though LTE hasn't yet been standardised, it has more support from major... [16 Jun 2008]
Vodafone chief's departure is a sign of the times
Comment Giving what was presumably his final keynote at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) tradeshow in Barcelona in February, Sarin's words certainly had the air of a swan-song - laying out his hopes and dreams for the mobile industry,... [29 May 2008]
WiMax to pip LTE 3G at the post?
News WiMax could prove to be the winner in the 4G race against the long-term evolution of 3G, simply because the technology is here first. Teresa Kellett, director of global development for telco Sprint... [11 Apr 2008]
Comcast and Time Warner to invest in 4G…
News The new company would use network spectrum and assets from both companies to form a US wireless network using WiMax. W is for WiMax For months, rumours have floated around that Sprint would spin off its... [26 Mar 2008]
Completing the 4G Vision: Gateways for Mobile WiMAX
White Paper WiMAX is a set of specifications created by the WiMAX Forum and based on standards developed by the IEEE 802.16 Working Group (WG). There are two standards of note here. The first is IEEE 802.16-2004,... [29 Feb 2008]
T-Mobile cosies up to femtocells…
News Looking beyond 3G, Gurdenli envisages there will be room for more than one technology - rather than it being a case of LTE (long term evolution)/4G crushing the hopes of WiMax. Mobile operator T-Mobile... [17 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment
Comment And on the horizon we have WiMax, 3G, 4G, TV and radio. This technology will allow us to use the same electronics and antenna for wi-fi and WiMax, for example, and also possibly for... [07 Jan 2008]
Nortel to WiMax watchdogs: 'Get on with it'
News Nortel's head of technology has hit out at regulators whose procrastination he feels is holding back the rollout of long-range wireless broadband technology WiMax. John Rose, CTO of the networking company, has accused... [05 Dec 2006]
3G: Are you planning for what comes next?
News Sprint Nextel, a US operator and member of the NGNMI, has publicly committed to rolling out WiMax, calling it a '4G network'. Most in the mobile industry would disagree that WiMax should... [15 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A 4G future
Comment On one side are the traditional mobile phone groups who see 4G as the next logical development step on from 3G, whilst on the other are those who want to fast track the whole process by laying claim to wi-fi and... [05 Sep 2006]
Samsung flashes its 4G
News Fixed speeds for technology will be even greater, getting up to 1Gbps - 50 times faster than current next-gen hype-generator, mobile WiMax. No one at Samsung was available to comment on which standards will be used for... [31 Aug 2006]
Sprint bets $3bn on 4G WiMax network
News Sprint Nextel plans to spend $3bn over the next two years to build a fourth-generation wireless network using WiMax technology. In fact, Forsee said the chipsets used in the WiMax network are one-tenth... [09 Aug 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]
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]
