Articles tagged with: Mobile Broadband and Wimax

Motorola to Expand Taiwanese WiMAX Network

Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecom (FET) has awarded Motorola additional contracts to expand its WiMAX network in Taichung, Taiwan. The projects will boost network performance and provide new management features, preparing FET for the commercial launch of mobile broadband services by the end of 2009.  more

Related Tags: , base-station, motorola, ovi, iden, far-eastone, personal, 802.16e, base-stations, far-eastone-telecom, network-management, wireless-broadband, wap, Taiwan


Next-Generation Mobile Broadband Technologies to Close the Gap With Fixed Broadband

Mobile operators are expected to fully maximise their high-speed packet access (HSPA) deployments before eventually deploying 3G long-term evolution (LTE). Many operators will leapfrog from HSPA to 3G LTE, as the window of opportunity for HSPA Evolved is insignificant when compared to 3G LTE.  more

Related Tags: , 3g, base-station, mobile-data, smartphone, mobile-wimax, eu, smartphones, tim, wind, lte, capex, hspa, ovi, backhaul, wimax,, planning, network-planning


Craig Wireless Signs Greek WiMAX Reseller Deal

Craig Wireless' Greek subsidiary Craig Wireless Hellas has entered into an agreement to provide Net One subscribers with access to its WiMAX network. The agreement provides for non-exclusive access to the Network for an indefinite term, within the coverage area of the Network in the Athens and Thessaloniki regions of Greece.  more

Related Tags: , base-station, tim, ovi, iden, base-stations, 4g, athens, Greece


Samsung Shows Off Touch Screen WiMAX Phone for the US Market

Samsung Mobile has announced the upcoming availability of its WiMAX enabled mobile phone, the Samsung Mondi. The touch screen Mondi, which takes its name from the Latin word for "world," is designed for use with the Clearwire WiMAX  network.  more

Related Tags: wi-fi, windows-mobile, microsoft, seattle, atlanta, mms, mobile-email, samsung, mobile-wimax, bluetooth, clearwire, gps, tim, wind, ovi, location-based-services, palm, mobile-internet, instant-messaging, opera, windows, 4g, email, navigation, touch-screen,


Top 22 Operators Account for 50% of Total WiMAX Subscribers

The top 22 WiMAX operators worldwide will contribute nearly 2.5 million subscribers by the end of 2009 - up from 1.24 million today - and close to 4 million by the end of 2010 according to the latest research report from Maravedis.  more

Related Tags: arpu, ict, itu, clearwire, tim, lte, maravedis, ovi, iden, far-eastone, compete, dongles, microwave, bsnl, uq-communications, femtocells, partner, bandwidth, telmex, usb


Recession isn't holding back mobile broadband subscribers

Market research firm Infonetics Research released the fourth quarter (4Q08) edition of its Mobile Broadband Cards, Routers, Services, and Subscribers report last week. The report found that worldwide, the number of mobile broadband subscribers (including W- CDMA/HSPA and CDMA2000/EV-DO) jumped 125% in 2008 over 2007, hitting 210.5 million, and are expected to top 1 billion by 2013.  more

Related Tags: sony-ericsson, huawei, cdma, hspa, ericsson, infonetics-research, sony, wimax,, ev-do


HSPA Drives Mobile Infrastructure Market Growth in 2008

According to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the worldwide total mobile infrastructure market revenue grew 5 percent in 2008, driven by the nearly doubling and quadrupling of revenue of the WCDMA and WiMAX markets, respectively.  more

Related Tags: 3g, base-station, smartphone, wcdma, smartphones, driving, lte, cdma, hspa, dell, gsm, true, 2g


WiMAX Forum Projects Over 800 Million People to Have Access to WiMAX Networks by 2010

The WiMAX Forum has announced that WiMAX Service Providers now offer networks covering 430 million people, or POPS, globally and are on a path to nearly double to 800 million people by end of 2010. In addition, global WiMAX network deployments are approaching 460 in more than 135 countries for fixed, portable, and mobile networks.  more

Related Tags: pops, intel, samsung, zte, wimax-forum, mobile-internet, 4g, digital-divide


DragonWave Wins Italian WiMAX Backhaul Contract

Ethernet backhaul vendor, DragonWave has announced that Italy's Linkem will deploy its Horizon Compact radios for backhaul in their new WiMAX network. Linkem provides both nationwide Wi-Fi Hotspot services and Wireless DSL services in Italy. At the beginning of 2008 the company consolidated this position by acquiring 13 regional WiMAX licenses to provide mobile broadband coverage to 80% of the Italian population.  more

Related Tags: ethernet, wi-fi, mobile-wimax, dragonwave, microwave, backhaul, hotspot, 4g, linkem, wi-fi-hotspot, Italy


Study Projects Positive Femtocell Business Case

The Femto Forum has published the results of research into the femtocell business case that it commissioned from Signals Research Group (SRG), a US-based wireless telecommunications consultancy. The report found that femtocells can generate attractive returns for operators by significantly increasing the expected lifetime value of a subscriber across a range of user scenarios. Subscribers in turn could realize cost savings and other benefits from femtocells.  more

Related Tags: 3g, sim, mobile-data, itu, lte, capex, femtocell, femto-forum, femtocells, opex, target


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