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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

Listen up Comcast, get those wires wireless

First off you have the fastest speed available as far as wires go. Second you invested in the Clear merger. To be able to sell wireless in your own brand. Third you can offer wireless to the home greener with faster speeds than any wireless provider, Forth you already have the infrastructure. So why aren't you using this resource. Docsis 3.0 is capable of 160 mbps, but are throttled down to 50.mbps. Equipment is available that is made for cable co"s to provide wifi to the home. In time you can e… Continue

Added by Kobe Wadsworth on May 9, 2009 at 12:30pm — 4 Comments

More Reasons for Optimism in This Week's WiMAX News

More Reasons for Optimism in This Week's WiMAX News Is the global economic outlook getting you down? Does the business section of your local newspaper depress you? Fortunately, there's hope, in the form of a quick Google search: there is plenty of news on WiMAX technology floating around the Internet this week, and most of it positive.

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Added by Ari Zoldan on November 28, 2008 at 6:00am — No Comments

Future of Mobile WiMAX Network in USA after the Sept 30 Launch

Sprint’s WiMAX Network XOHM officially launches on 8th October 2008 The Mobile WiMAX network of Sprint, XOHM, is now officially being launched on the 8th of October 2008 at Baltimore. The announcement of the official launch comes after many delays and postponed launches for the network for a variety of reasons. The wait is finally over, with the network already “running” and providing performance as expected. While there are many Mobile WiMAX networks in operation around the globe, the… Continue

Added by Amitabh Kumar on September 30, 2008 at 7:48am — No Comments

A Closer Look at Clearwire's Spectrum

Ever since we put together our first Sidecut Report on WiMax and its comprehensive look at the impact of the New Clearwire deal on the U.S. market, we have been intrigued by the prospect of the 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings that Sprint and the old Clearwire brought to the table. So instead of just wondering about it,… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on August 24, 2008 at 12:48pm — No 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

WiMax Empire Poses Continual Threat to AT&T Network

AT&T (NYSE: T) Phone Company is once again challenging the merger of Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) with Clearwire (NYSE: CLWR), whose aim is to merge both companies' WiMax assets in order to create a nationwide broadband wireless network. This merger would be huge for Wimax, estimating a deal worth 14. 5 billion dollars, a… Continue

Added by Ari Zoldan on July 29, 2008 at 3:31pm — 1 Comment

Comcast and the WiMax Drive-By

It was interesting to read last week that one of the things that convinced Comcast CEO Brian Roberts of WiMax's viability was a demonstration of how well mobile WiMax can work, even at 50 mph. In a report last week from Light Reading's cable guy Jeff Baumgartner, Roberts (whose company poured just north of a billion bucks into the… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on June 2, 2008 at 11:44am — 1 Comment

Comcast CEO Roberts reveals its Strategey for investing in Sprint Clearwire

The $ 1 Billion investment in the Sprint-Clearwire JV goes down to a simple demo where the comcast team witnessed unblemished video delivery while travelling in a car at 50 miler per hour. The video quality, which remained unaffected as the vehicle sped past multiple base stations with smooth handovers and the fact that this spectular delivery can be supported by over 150 MHz of Spectrum was all that remained to make a final decision. Mobile Broadcasting with W… Continue

Added by Amitabh Kumar on May 29, 2008 at 11:46pm — No Comments

Taking a Deeper Look at the Clearwire WiMax Deal

Sidecut Reports is pleased to announce the new, updated version of our WiMax report, which includes a comprehensive study of the "new" Clearwire WiMax deal and its $3.2 billion of investment from a group that includes Google, Comcast, Intel and Time Warner Cable. Motivations behind the investments and the combination of WiMax as… Continue

Added by Paul Kapustka on May 28, 2008 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment