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Articles tagged with: Sprint and Wimax
Cisco Joins WiMAX Forum Board of Directors
The WiMAX Forum has announced the addition of Cisco as a new member of its board of directors. Sai Subramanian, director of marketing for the broadband wireless business unit of Cisco, will serve as Cisco’s representative on the WiMAX Forum board. Last week, the WiMAX Forum also announced that it had added Tata Communications’ COO Prateek Pashine to its board. more
Related Tags: wimax-forum, cisco, nortel-networks, magticom, chipset, 4g
Mobile Phones Get Smarter at CTIA with Touch Screen Tech
This month's International CTIA Wireless 2009 event in Las Vegas showcased in the mobile handset's industry increasing focus on smart phones, as illustrated by prevalence of announcements related to touch-screen technology, according to iSuppli. more
Related Tags: android, google, sony-ericsson, , wi-fi, microsoft, nokia, sim, iphone, samsung, apple, isuppli, sprint-nextel, gps, tim, wind, lte, docomo, ericsson, ovi, palm, blackberry, rim, sony, kyocera, mobile-internet, touch-screen, navteq, nextel, smart, windows, las-vegas, ctia, kyocera-wireless
Huawei Starting to Win Network Contracts in the USA
China's Huawei is reported to be finally making significant progress in cracking the US market, where it has had problems in the past thanks in part to security concerns over allegations of links to the Chinese government. The company has always denied the allegations. more
Related Tags: google, 3com, intel, huawei, clearwire, tim, wall-street-journal, ovi, iden, cox-communications, USA
Sprint Outlines WiMAX Expansion Programme
USA network, sprint Nextel has announced the next markets in its WiMAX network rollout. The network is being folded into the national WiMAX network being built by its joint-partner, Clearwire. sprint says that it plans to deploy WiMAX in many markets in 2009, including: Atlanta, Honolulu, Charlotte, Las Vegas, Chicago, Philadelphia, DallasFort Worth, Portland and Seattle more
Related Tags: 3g, seattle, atlanta, cisco, clearwire, sprint-nextel, ovi, iden, usb-modem, nextel, modem, san-francisco, 4g, USA
Nokia Ceases Production of its Only WiMAX Device
Nokia has stopped producing its only WiMAX device, the N810 WiMax Edition, after just a few months of sales. The handset was originally shown last April as an upgrade of the existing N810 which relied on Wi-Fi for its connection, and launched in October. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, nokia, motorola, clearwire
Sprint, Clearwire Sued Over WiMAX Patent Claims
Adaptix, a Texan WiMAX base station and mobile terminal vendor has launched legal action against sprint Nextel and Clearwire for allegedly infringing six of its patents. The company is demanding the usual damages, fines and a bar on the company from continuing the rollout of its nationwide WiMAX network. more
Related Tags: base-station, mobile-wimax, clearwire, sprint-nextel, patents, nextel, USA
Sprint to Start Selling CDMA-WiMAX USB Modems
sprint Nextel has announced that it will start selling its first CDMA-WiMAX dual-mode device, a USB modem from next week - just before Christmas. sprint launched 4G in Baltimore in September and plans to launch in other markets across the country throughout 2009. more
Related Tags: sprint-nextel, cdma, usb-modem, mobile-broadband, nextel, modem, 4g, USA
Seeing Clear through the New Clearwire
The mobile broadband industry in the US received a big shot in the arm with MondayÃ'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: mobile-wimax, clearwire, mobile-broadband, lte, ims-research, next-generation-network, ims, wimax,, ben, USA
Sprint Nextel Slips into 3rd Quarter Loss - Loses 1.3 Million Customers
US based sprint Nextel has swung into a loss as it reported revenues of US$8.8 billion and a loss of US$326 million for the 3rd quarter of this year. This compared with a profit of US$64 million a year ago. If you exclude on-off items, the company says it would have broken even for the quarter. more
Related Tags: arpu, sprint-nextel, customer-care, iden, nextel, USA
Sprint Nextel Confirms "Significant Interest" in Sale of Nextel Division
sprint Nextel has confirmed that it has received "significant interest" from companies interested in acquiring its Nextel iDEN division - but warned that it doubts any bidder would be able to raise the funds in the current economic climate. more
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