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Putin WiMAX in Russia

Hello everyone and Happy Columbus Day. There was some interesting WiMAX news recently out of Russia that I wanted to take a closer look at today. According to FierceTelecom, Russian WiMAX carrier, Yota, said it will be offering WiMAX devices that can make VoIP calls and allow us… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on October 12, 2009 at 5:06pm — 1 Comment

On the Road to CTIA 2009

This week kicks off the International CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2009 show, being held in San Diego. I love this time of year. CTIA never fails to bring together a who’s who of the wireless world, discussing their company’s news and product launches as well as the industry’s latest and greatest. Over the past few days, the media has repo… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on October 7, 2009 at 5:18pm — 2 Comments

WiMAX in Hawaii

Last week I was invited to Hawaii by the General Manager with Clearwire to see a preview of the upcoming WiMAX launch. The new brand for Clearwire in WiMAX will be called Clear(TM). This was a very exciting experience because up until then I had never seen WiMAX in action. Our company has over 25 dealers actively selling Clearwire in Hawaii and their excitment was as much as mine. While it was all work and no play for me in Hawaii, I really can't complain. Playing with the products, getting a pr… Continue

Added by Bryan Lee on September 25, 2009 at 1:07pm — 3 Comments

IEEE 802.16m Draft 1 moves to WG letter ballot- 4G version of WiMAX moves closer to standardization

Report of IEEE 802.16m Meeting -Session #62 on 13-16 July 2009 in San Francisco, CA Most notably, the IEEE 802/16 Working Group met a major milestone by agreeing to open a letter ballot on the first draft (P802.16m/D1) under the 802.16m project. The 16m Task Group will issue a request for input on specific technical topics (LBS, E-MBS, Relay, and SON- see below for acronym definitions), to be submitted prior to Session #63 in Jeju, Korea and discussed at Session #63.5 on the big i… Continue

Added by Alan J Weissberger on July 21, 2009 at 4:00pm — 8 Comments

4G strategy gets clear

With yet another launch of clear services in Atlanta, and the aggressive marketing of apple, with there price dropping of the iphone,in the same 48 hours of the palm pre launch. There just wanting to keep subscribers under contract. As there subscriber base were coming up for renewal, and to take the steam out of sprint sales, as well as to keep there base from shifting carriers. This is aggressive marketing. I find most people use there Iphones for data , like 80% data and 20% phone and somewhe… Continue

Added by Kobe Wadsworth on June 17, 2009 at 10:00am — 16 Comments

Clearwire's Soft-launch of WiMAX 'Clear' service in Las Vegas

Similar to last month’s soft-launch of Clear service in Atlanta, Clearwire is now offering WiMAX services in Las Vegas prior to the official launch expected later this summer. "In advance of our full commercial launch of Las Vegas scheduled for this summer, we are now selling Clear service as part of our operational readiness activities," Clearwire spokeswoman Jennifer Morgan told Unstrung. "Store openings, advertising, and other market activities will be a part of our full commercial launch, b… Continue

Added by Amanda Louie on June 2, 2009 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Devices will be key to 4G

I think we can all agree that the IPhone made a statement, AT&T's turn to say can you hear me now. Two issues that caused Sprint problems, was first that 100 dollar all you can eat plan, and second, the launch of the IPhone, in and around that same time frame. Consumers said if I'm going to pay 100 dollars, I'm going to go first class, and the subscriber base shifted carriers. That ripple effect is being felt through out the telco industry. Consumers don't care what the back end looks like.… Continue

Added by Kobe Wadsworth on May 21, 2009 at 1:59pm — 4 Comments

Wimax news keeps getting better

Thus far, the biggest news since the Clearwire Sprint merge. Is this Clear Cisco partnership, which may well be the biggest news yet for wimax. In my last blog tittled listen up comcast get those wires wireless, i wrote about Cisco, and Comcast being able to bring lightning fast wifi to the home. Now enter Clear Comcast and Cisco. Witch is the real partnership. With these three giants invested in 4G, You can expect big news for the wimax ecospace. I think they got AT&T and Verizon;s attentio… Continue

Added by Kobe Wadsworth on May 18, 2009 at 7:45am — 4 Comments

AT&T: We Like WiMax!

Readers of our Sidecut Report on WiMax weren't surprised to read in USA Today that the big telco likes WiMax, despite a strategic direction tilted in favor of Long Term Evolution (LTE) for its main 4G strategy. In our report, we offered some details of AT&T's current WiMax deployments, which include one in Alaska and one in P… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on August 1, 2008 at 8:14pm — No Comments