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Monday, Sep 15
4G: Forget Cell Towers, Bring on the Femtocells
The femtocell strategy will be used in another 4G rollout — this time for WiMAX — as part of the Clearwire joint venture involving Clearwire, Sprint, Google and several cable companies. Earlier this year Dave Williams, a former wireless executive and now SVP with Comcast, told Light Read...
Friday, Aug 22
Data Shows That 3G Still Has Room to Grow
On the CDMA side, Chetan Sharma Consulting tracked 115 million CDMA 3G subscribers worldwide and 65 million in the U.S., current as of July 2008. HSPA networks have a theoretical download speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps vs 3.1 Mbps on the latest CDMA technology. Ironically, as AT&T and T-Mobile ram...
Thursday, Aug 14
Countdown to 4G: Who’s Doing What, When
As the iPhone has shown, carriers are going to have to upgrade their mobile networks to handle the increasing amount of data traffic that will come from users surfing social networks, YouTube and heaven knows what else while on the go. Just please don’t do it while driving. So for those readi...
Tuesday, Jul 22
More Radios, Fewer Chips: Why Wireless Integration is Hot
That’s why chip vendors, from established players like Broadcom and NXP to startups like Wavesat and Altair, are hoping to put multiple radios onto one chip. And many of them are turning to software to do it. NXP, for example, has created a software-defined modem that can toggle among LTE, H...
Tuesday, Jan 29
Boradband’s Kindle Paradigm
Written by John Roese, Chief Technology Officer, Nortel Networks When it comes to broadband economics, a new paradigm may be found in Amazon's Kindle. The question now is to what degree will this trend accelerate as the first WiMAX and LTE networks come online?
Friday, Jun 22
Opinion: Disgruntled Sprint Shareholders: Right Track, Wrong Direction
The money wasted on subsidizing the more expensive dual radio user devices and trying to run multiple networks would be better spent on just making a WiMAX network that can stand on its own. Meanwhile, WiMAX only gives about a two year head start on UMB and LTE. If Sprint isn’t well built out be...
Thursday, Jun 14
Sprint: Rethinking WiMAX?
Still, this proposal makes most sense when compared to the Clearwire option. Sprint, which plans to spend $3 billion or so on the WiMAX network has been hammered on the stock markets, though the stock price declines have nothing to do with WiMAX. Instead, Sprint’s misfortunes are directly...
Friday, Jun 1
Mobile VoIP: Killer App in More Ways than One
By Jesse Kopelman This year we are seeing widespread US deployment of CDMA EVDO Rev A. The next two years should bring the same for both UMTS HSPA (both uplink and downlink) and WiMAX. What these technologies have in common, besides a lot of capitalized letters, is vastly improved performan...
Tuesday, May 22
Trials of Mobile WiMAX
Sprint is likely already starting to build out its mobile WiMAX network, given the carrier is supposed to have launched a few cities by the end of the year. Sprint is using hardware from Motorola, Samsung and Nokia. Nth Air doesn’t have the backing of an Intel or Motorola. Niemeyer wouldn’t di...
Thursday, Apr 26
Qualcomm’s Lauer Disses WiMAX
On WiMAX cost: The second assertion on WiMAX is that it is very low cost. Well our view, and we think we know architecture pretty well, is that WiMAX is actually a higher cost to deploy than a WCDMA or CDMA2000 network. We see it as having cost disadvantages.
Tuesday, Apr 17
WiMAX Devices, Coming Soon
Samsung: Samsung announced the availability of 3 mobile WiMAX devices last week for the Korean market — a WiBro smartphone, a converged mobile PC device, and a WiBro USB dongle. Sprint has also said that Samsung will develop PC cards with WiMAX and dual EVDO/WiMAX for the U.S. market.
Monday, Mar 26
Sprint’s Lil WiMAX Details
Sprint named a dozen or so more markets for its WiMAX rollout and the chosen vendors for each location, and also announced some new hardware partners. Sprint now has 19 markets announced for network vendors Nokia, Samsung and Motorola (see details below the fold)
Monday, Mar 19
WhyMAX?
Another reason carriers are considering mobile WiMAX is that it is being touted as a cheaper (in some ways) technology to building and upgrading 3G networks. Dan Lockee, an analyst at Pyramid Research, wrote recently that WiMAX spectrum has been significantly cheaper than 3G spectrum,...
Tuesday, Dec 19
WiMAX and the vanishing scale
India and China are not alone in deviating from the 2.5-to-2.69 GHz bands. Germans recently auctioned off 3.5 GHz spectrum to three companies - DBD, Clearwire and Inquam. While the WiMAX Forum is building standards for the most-used spectrum ranges, equipment providers will have to decide w...
Thursday, Dec 14
In India, WiMAX Takes Wings
In addition to these networks, Intel has WiMAX trials planned for Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune and Bangalore. Like Intel, Alcatel is also aggressively pushing WiMAX in India. Indian ISP DishNet has fixed wireless networks deployed (or under development) in eight cities, and is targeting the...
