Articles tagged with: Ims and Clearwire

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

Related Tags: nokia, sim, wimax, mobile-wimax, ict, tim, lte, ims-research, korea-telecom, fixed-wireless, anssi-vanjoki, television


Seeing Clear through the New Clearwire

The mobile broadband industry in the US received a big shot in the arm with Monday'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

Related Tags: wimax, mobile-wimax, mobile-broadband, lte, ims-research, next-generation-network, sprint, wimax,, ben, dual-mode,


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

Related Tags: mobile-data, wimax, mobile-wimax, hspa, lte, 3gpp, ims-research, 802.16e, next-generation-network, hspa+, korea-telecom, ev-do, 4g, true


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