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Monday, Jan 19
WiMAX bids for a key role in the Obama universal broadband plan
on Verizon Wireless' swathe of 700MHz frequencies. Many smaller wireless system to support openness, PC economics and broadband congested, spectrum, make Wi-Fi unsuited to be the sole basis of the available all-IP, open network, WiMAX.
Tuesday, Dec 16
LTE wins battle of headlines, but WiMAX hits back
We need to set the record straight," he said. "LTE is not an evolution. It's a complete forklift, just like WiMAX." It has been a common misconception that, because LTE has emerged from the 3GPP, it will be backwards compatible with that body's 3G standards, or at least offer a simpler migrati...
Tuesday, Dec 2
December 2, 2008: Clearwire's Thanksgiving feast; India auctions get the greenlight
Ayvazian noted that Yankee Group research supports Ben Wolff's assessment that WiMAX and LTE have much in common as 4G technologies, by virtue of their use of orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) modulation and advanced antenna technology such as MIMO), beam formi...
Tuesday, Nov 11
November 11, 2008: Why AT&T bought Wayport
AT&T recently snapped up WiFi hotspot service provider Wayport Networks for $275 million in cash. The acquisition expands AT&T's WiFi hotspot footprint to about 20,000 in the U.S. and 80,000 worldwide, including roaming agreements. Some readers may remember that AT&T was i...
Monday, Oct 6
October 7, 2008: WiMAX World Round-up
In order to combat the threat from LTE, the WiMAX Forum is feverishly working with companies to develop lower-cost customer premises equipment (CPE) devices, since carrier profitability is tied to device cost. In fact, the cost of such devices should soon be in the $20-$30 range." -Rich T...
