Sprint to launch WiMax service in September

June 19th, 2008 Administrator Posted in Ubiquitous Computing, Wimax | No Comments »

Sprint to launch WiMax service in September
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
LAS VEGAS–Sprint Nextel will launch its first commercial WiMax service in Baltimore in September, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Wednesday during a speech at …

First Certified Mobile WiMax Gear Arrives
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
The WiMax Forum projects that the number of certified products will grow from 10 today, to 100 by the end of the year, and more than 1000 by 2011. …

Xohm WiMAX service to launch in Baltimore in September 08
ZDNet – USA
There are 575 Xohm WiMAX base station sites up and running with different devices being tested. The devices you will be able to connect with Xohm at launch …

Sprint Nextel to Launch WiMax in September
PC World – USA
The service, delayed several times and now coming under the flag of a joint venture with WiMax service provider Clearwire, will also go commercial in …

Redline to Aid in $5 Million NOMOTECH WiMax Expansion
TMCnet – USA
By Anshu Shrivastava Redline Communications (News – Alert) Group Inc. today announced that NOMOTECH has selected its “WiMAX Forum Certified” RedMAX products …

SR Telecom Plans Launch of 10.5 GHz WiMAX Radio Unit
TMCnet – USA
The announcement was made by the company at the WiMAX Forum Global Congress. SR Telecom & Co. is sponsoring the Media Zone at the WiMAX Forum (News – Alert) …

Amsterdam Gets Citywide WiMax
Unstrung – New York,NY,USA
Worldmax has launched the first services on its mobile WiMax network in Amsterdam, the host city for this week’s WiMAX Forum Global Congress. …

Alvarion gains mobile WiMAX certification
Globes – Rishon Le-Zion,Israel
Alvarion Ltd. (Nasdaq: ALVR; TASE: ALVR) has obtained certification for its 802.16e BreezeMAX 2.5 Gigahertz base station from the WiMAX Forum. …

Wimax may yet find success in emerging markets
guardian.co.uk – UK
By Niclas Mika AMSTERDAM, June 18 (Reuters) – Wimax, the wireless broadband technology, may find its place serving emerging markets without a fixed-line …

Amsterdam switches on Europe’s first mobile WiMax network
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
By Matthew Broersma June 18, 2008 (TechWorld.com) Dutch broadband start-up Worldmax on Tuesday demonstrated what it said is Europe’s first mobile WiMax …
 

Why Care about WiMAX?
By Mari Silbey
There’s been a lot of WiMAX chatter the last couple of months. For example, the major announcement in May of new financial backers for a US network (Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Google, Intel and Bright House). …

Sprint to launch WiMax service in September
By Marguerite Reardon
LAS VEGAS–Sprint Nextel will launch its first commercial WiMax service in Baltimore in September, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Wednesday during a speech at the NXTcomm tradeshow. Dan Hesse, Sprint Nextel CEO …

Sprint overcoming WiMax delays
By Jason Gertzen
“Mobile WiMAX services will follow in the Washington DC and Chicago markets during Q4 2008,” West said, according to a report in telecoms.com. “We’re already looking at other markets to launch after that.” …

The WiMAX Roller Coaster
By Stephen Brown
“The very first standard for WiMAX technology was made available around 1999, with various amendments made through 2005. While the technology has gained swift, widespread adoption in many countries, growth in the US has been slow and …

WiMax Forum: The number of WiMAX deployments around the world now …
By packetdata
To scale up capacity for Mobile WiMAX product certification, the WiMAX Forum intends to open two new testing labs this year-one in India and one in Japan-as well as another in Brazil in 2009. This will add to its six testing labs …