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Articles tagged with: Wimax and Option
Sprint Signs WiMAX Roaming Deals with Jamaica and Taiwan
USA based Sprint has signed wimax roaming agreements with Digicel in Jamaica and Global Mobile in Taiwan. Select Sprint devices that operate with the Sprint SmartView Connection Manager will automatically detect the Digicel and Global Mobile networks, giving customers the option to connect and roam with an unlimited 24 hour Daypass. more
Related Tags: sprint, digicel, global-mobile, connect,
Jordanian WiMAX network Buys Local ISP
Jordanian wimax network operator, Kulacom Jordan as announced the acquisition of Stream, a Jordanian Internet service operator for an undisclosed amount. Private and corporate customers in Jordan have the option of selecting Kulacom's wimax service in addition to Stream's ADSL service. more
Related Tags: kulacom, isp, Jordan
Dutch WiMAX Network to Close Down
Dutch wimax network operator, Worldmax has announced that it is closing down its network in Amsterdam from this August. At the end of last year, Worldmax was informed by the Dutch government that it was causing radio interference with satellite stations in Burum, owned by the Ministry of Defense. In the interest of national security the government saw no other option than to put major restrictions on the Worldmax license. After starting court proceedings end of last year, parties have now settled this issue out of court. more
Related Tags: amsterdam, court, Netherlands
Thailand Aiming for WiMAX License Auction Next February
Thailand's telecoms regulator expects to grant BWA/wimax licenses next February and has set up a committee to study ways of granting the licences, reports The Nation newspaper. The review will run in parallel with the ongoing review of 3G license tender plans. more
Related Tags: bwa, radio-spectrum, cat, Thailand
WiMAX in Emerging markets: A niche rather than mass market
wimax has struggled to establish a foothold in the mature broadband markets of Europe, North America and Asia. There is both hope and expectation that the emerging markets, with their low fixed-line penetration, will be key hunting ground for wimax. But is there really a big market for wimax in the emerging markets? more
Related Tags: play, base, packet-one, broadband, coverage
WiMAX Subscriber Base Reaches 3.5 Million Worldwide
Approximately 400,000 BWA/wimax subscribers and 50 million new active 3G subscribers were added in Q1 2009, according to the latest quarterly report published by Maravedis. more
Related Tags: maravedis, interoperability, bandwidth
Mobile VoIP Poses a Huge Challenge for Traditional Mobile Voice Providers
Mobile portal voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offered by third-party application-based providers poses a huge and direct challenge to the US$692.6 billion global mobile voice market, according to Gartner. The research firm predicts that over time traditional network-based mobile carriers face the real prospect of losing a major slice of their voice traffic and revenue to new non-infrastructure players that use VoIP. more
Related Tags: voip, gartner, lte, mvno, wi-fi, partner, 4g, mobile-voip, global-mobile
WiMAX Subscribers in India to Exceed 13 Million by 2013
Deployment of 3G and wimax streams will generate a reasonable user base over the next 5 year period, before noticeable LTE deployments begin to make an impact in India, according to the latest research by Maravedis, in partnership with Indian telecom market research and analysis firm Tonse Telecom. more
Related Tags: 3g, lte, tonse-telecom, maravedis, capex, tim, base-station, wireless-broadband, auction, India
Israel Consults on Possible 3G Spectrum Auction
Israel's Ministry of Communications is to hold a public consultation to decide how to allocate a batch of unused 3G radio spectrum. The move has been prompted by a request from MIRS Communications after it was earlier blocked from bidding for wimax licenses. more
Related Tags: ministry-of-communications, mirs-communications, 3g-license, iden, mvno, motorola, 3g, mirs, auction, Israel
SmarTone-Vodafone Confirms LTE Network Upgrade Intent
Hong Kong's SmarTone-Vodafone has announced that it plans to migrate its network towards an LTE platform after it withdrew from last weeks wimax license auction. The operator said that it decided not to persue the wimax option after the cost of the license started to exceed the cost of deploying the LTE upgrade. more
Related Tags: vodafone, lte, hspa, hspa+, wimax-license, smartone-vodafone, Hong Kong
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