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Articles tagged with: Alvarion
Mobile WiMAX market up 5% in 4Q08; Cisco, Huawei begin challenging market leaders
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research released the fourth quarter edition of its WiMAX report this week, noting that the overall WiMAX equipment and device market held steady in 4Q08 over 3Q08 at $275 million, as the 802.16e mobile WiMAX segment increased 5% to counter a slight dip in the 802.16d fixed WiMAX segment. more
Related Tags: samsung, wimax, mobile-wimax, motorola, cisco, cisco, edge, huawei, lte, alcatel-lucent, nortel, infonetics-research, 802.16e, wimax,
Orange Botswana Chooses Alvarion for WiMAX Turnkey Project
alvarion says that it has won a contract from Orange Botswana for a turnkey WiMAX deployment, using its 4Motion end-to-end solution. The commercial network built at the 2.5 GHz frequency band enables Orange Botswana to provide advanced data services to businesses and homes in Gaborone and Francistown, Botswana's two largest cities with a total population of over 330,000. more
Related Tags: orange, wimax, 802.16e, wireless-broadband, orange-botswana, Botswana
Alvarion and Huawei Join WiMAX Patents Group
alvarion and Huawei have joined the Open Patent Alliance (OPA) - which manages the WiMAX patent pool. alvarion and Huawei join current OPA members Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Clearwire, Intel, and Samsung Electronics. As a result, it is expected that licensing terms for patents pertaining to WiMAX, including the associated royalty rates will be more predictable, transparent, and at lower cost. Furthermore the WiMAX patent pool may act as a "one stop shop" where companies building WiMAX solutions can obtain use of the patents more simply, efficiently and cost effectively, under a more competitive royalty structure that charges only for the features required to develop WiMAX products. more
Related Tags: sim, intel, samsung, wimax, cisco, cisco, ict, huawei, clearwire, alcatel-lucent, cdma, mimo, patents, wimax,, open-patent-alliance, wireless-broadband
Nortel and Alvarion to Break-Up WiMAX Partnership
Nortel, which is currently seeking bankruptcy protection, and alvarion are to break up their WiMAX joint venture - which was only entered into last June. alvarion says that it is analyzing the details of actions it will take to mitigate the impact on its business, and expects to provide more information about these actions during its fourth quarter 2008 financial results conference call next month more
Related Tags: ptc, base-station, wimax, mobile-wimax, itu, nortel, bankruptcy
Mobile WiMAX Market Continued to Ramp in Late 2008
According to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the worldwide mobile WiMAX infrastructure revenues nearly quadrupled in the third quarter of 2008 (the most recent quarter with available market information) over the third quarter of 2007. more
Related Tags: samsung, wimax, mobile-wimax, motorola, lte, alcatel-lucent, dell
Alvarion Wins Taiwanese WiMAX Contract
alvarion has signed a contract with Taiwan's VMAX Telecom to deploy Mobile WiMAX, beginning in the Taoyuan and Hsinchu counties, in Northern Taiwan. Under the terms of the agreement, alvarion will provide VMAX Telecom with its WiMAX Forum Certified BreezeMAX 2500 base station, as part of the company's 4Motion solution. more
Related Tags: base-station, wimax, mobile-wimax, wimax-license, Taiwan
Alvarion Wins Costa Rican WiMAX Contract
alvarion has been awarded a $6 million contract by ICE (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad), Costa RicaÃ's incumbent telco. Under the terms of the agreement alvarion will implement a turnkey project to provide advanced broadband services, deploying its 4Motion solution with its WiMAX Forum Certified BreezeMAX 2500 platform. more
Related Tags: wimax, mobile-wimax, rural, wimax-forum, 802.16e, san-jose, CostaRica
Alvarion overtakes ALU, MOTO in mobile WiMAX
Worldwide sales of fixed and mobile WiMAX equipment and phones/Ultra Mobile PCs dropped 21% to $245 million in 3Q08 from 2Q08, and are expected to continue sliding through 2009 as the economic recession puts the squeeze on this early market, says Infonetics Research in a new report. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, samsung, wimax, mobile-wimax, motorola, clearwire, alcatel-lucent, infonetics-research, personal, 3, wimax,
French WiMAX Network Expanding Coverage
WiMAX vendor, alvarion has announced the expansion of its frame agreement with the French WiMAX operator Altitude to extend its coverage and provide voice and data services at 3.5 GHz to users in the Jura and Deux Sevres districts. more
MTN Buys Landline Operator and ISP in Ivory Coast
South Africa based MTN has brought two firms in the Côte dÃ'Ivoire for an undisclosed amount. MTN said in a statement that the acquisition of the two companies was in line with its stated strategy to provide integrated communications solutions in all its markets. more
Related Tags: wimax, mtn, cdma, wireless-broadband, Cote d'Ivoire