Articles tagged with: Ims Research and Mobile Wimax

Nokia Dismisses WiMAX as a "Wireless Betamax"

Nokia has dismissed WiMAX as a failed idea and likened it to the Betamax video format which lost the video tape war in the 1980s. Nokia's head of sales and manufacturing, Anssi Vanjoki told the Financial Times that he doesn't "see that WiMax is taking hold anywhere in a big way,"  more

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Mobile Data Infrastructure Market to See Sharp Decline in 2009

The mobile data infrastructure market is forecast to experience a double digit decline in revenues in 2009 according to a recent study by IMS Research. Mobile WiMAX may be hardest hit as credit markets dry up, jeopardizing many of the smaller pure WiMAX vendors' most important customers.  more

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Seeing Clear through the New Clearwire

The mobile broadband industry in the US received a big shot in the arm with MondayĆ's announcement that Clearwire completed their transaction with Sprint Nextel to combine their next generation wireless Internet businesses. However, some of the statements made by Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff may indicate a shift in strategy for the next generation network operator.  more

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Mobile WiMAX to Encounter Significant Hurdles on its way to Mediocrity

Although proponents of mobile WiMAX are positioning it as the best choice for a next generation network technology, IMS Research believes that it will struggle to gain traction with operators, and will ultimately remain a niche mobile technology.  more

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