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Articles tagged with: Wimax Forum and Base Stations
Despite the Naysayers WiMAX Subscriber Revenue Will Boom in 2009
Any reader who believed all the recent headlines would feel confident that the WiMAX market is being crushed by LTE. Nortel has left the WiMAX market and Alcatel-Lucent has "backed off" from WiMAX; and these developments supposedly dealt a blow to Clearwire, which had so far chosen neither as an infrastructure vendor. But that's not quite the whole story. more
Related Tags: base-station, intel, samsung, wimax, mobile-wimax, motorola, clearwire, lte, abi-research, alcatel-lucent, nortel, wimax,, wireless-broadband
Airspan Wins Expansion WiMAX Contract for Costa Rica
Airspan Networks has announced today that I.C.E. (El Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad) of Costa Rica, the country's main telecommunications operator, has awarded it a follow-on order worth approximately US$12.5 million through its local partner, Datatell, for a network expansion and the deployment of several tens of thousands of CPEs (customer premises equipment). more
Related Tags: base-station, wimax, itu, rcom, wireless-broadband, CostaRica
WiMAX Brings the Internet to the Monasteries of Mount Athos
Greece's OTE has announced that its pilot WiMAX network in Mount Athos is now operational. In total, six WiMAX base stations have already been installed. The network range reaches 50 km, covering the majority of the Monasteries and Scetea of Mount Athos. OTE's WiMAX base stations transmit at radio frequency spectrum of 3.5 GHz that is provided to OTE by EETT (National Regulatory Authority). more
Related Tags: wind, wimax, ote, ieee, Greece
Nortel Wins Moscow WiMAX Contract
Russia's Comstar-United TeleSystems has chosen Nortel as the supplier for its WiMAX network in Moscow. The market for WiMAX in Russia is growing quickly with companies like Comstar leveraging its speed, capacity, and cost-effectiveness to expand their businesses and address the demand for wireless broadband. Rethink Research Associates estimates that the number of WiMAX subscribers in Russia will grow to 1.7 million in 2010 and 4.3 million 2012. more
Related Tags: mobile-wimax, nortel, comstar, Russia
Aperto Networks Wins Californian WiMAX Contract
Aperto Networks says that it has won a contract from NextPhase Wireless, a service provider based in Southern California, for a WiMAX network in the 3.65 GHz band. Deployment will start in Orange County and then expand to the rest of Southern California, including the Los Angeles and San Diego markets. Later, the deployment will go national with additional coverage in states such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. more
WiMAX Subs to Exceed 100 Million by 2014
Research and analysis firm, Maraved is forecasting in a new report that WiMAX subscribers to exceed 100 million by 2014. "WiMAX chipsets will start to be embedded in laptops in the second half of 2008, into handheld devices in 2009, and into consumer electronics by early 2010," said Adlane Fellah, President and CEO of Maravedis and co-author of the report. "This is definitely a key assumption, as large-scale WiMAX deployments by companies such as BSNL and Sprint start to materialize in 2008-2009 despite current challenges." more
Related Tags: mobile-wimax, maravedis, lte, compete, 3gpp, mobile-internet, bsnl, alvarion, personal-navigation-devices, chipsets, bwa, ieee
Redline Picks Up WiMAX Contract in Tunisia
Redline Communications has announced that Tunisia's Divona Telecom has chosen its RedMAX products for its five-city WiMAX network. Redline's base stations and indoor and outdoor subscriber units were chosen after an extensive three-month trial period that involved several WiMAX vendors. The US$1 million network buildout will take place in several phases over the next two years, and will connect five major cities in Tunisia, including Tunis, Nabeul, Souse, Monastir and Sfax. more
Related Tags: divona-telecom, vsat, Tunisia