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Desktop Computers are Ceding Ground to Mobile Enabled Laptops

Laptops outstripped desktops for the first time in terms of revenue due to a higher average sale price (ASP). Frost & Sullivan believes another could follow this first in 2009, when laptop unit sales will exceed that of desktops, globally. Analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds that the market earned revenues of US$137.3 billion in 2008 and estimates this to reach US$211.4 billion in 2014.  more

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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

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Wireless Broadband Boosts Australian Economy by $4.7 Billion

Australia's rapid take-up of wireless broadband has boosted economic productivity, according to an economist. Dr Paul Paterson of Concept Economics says a study looking at the economic impact of wireless broadband estimates that if take up continues at current levels there will be an ongoing annual productivity dividend to Australians of AU$7.4 billion (US$4.7 billion) - the equivalent of AU$250 (US$158) for every household.  more

Related Tags: 3g, mobile-payments, mobile-broadband, telstra, melbourne, Australia


American Tower Swings Back to Q4 Profit

American Tower Corp. has returned to fourth-quarter profit after posting a net profit of $85.8 million, compared to a loss of $5.5 million a year ago. Revenues rose 8% to $408.3 million. American Tower owns and operates over 23,700 communications sites in the United States, Mexico, Brazil and India  more

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BSNL Launches WiMAX Network in India's Gujarat State

India's Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) has launched a WiMAX network in the Indian state of Gujarat - in association with SOMA Networks. Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) is the first enterprise to benefit from this service in the state. GIDC will make this service available to industries housed in their estates, and will also use this service in their own administrative offices.  more

Related Tags: wimax, bandwidth, goa, gujarat, India


WiMAX Provides Wireless Backhaul for Turkey's Largest Video Surveillance Network

Proxim Wireless says that it has provided the wireless backhaul for Turkey's largest video surveillance network in the port city of Bodrum. The Bodrum Police Department had commissioned the construction of a city-wide wireless video surveillance network, utilizing Proxim's Tsunami MP.16 3500 licensed band WiMAX radios as the wireless backhaul to connect over 70 video cameras.  more

Related Tags: wimax, lte, backhaul, police, wired, connect, Turkey


Verizon Announces LTE Deployment Plans - Going Live in 2010

Verizon's CTO, Dick Lynch has outlined the company's plans to roll out an LTE upgrade for its wireless network. Lynch announced that Verizon Wireless has selected Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent as primary network vendors for its initial LTE network deployments. These two vendors are expected to build the underlying infrastructure that will enable Verizon Wireless to become the first wireless company to offer commercial LTE-based service in the United States, starting in 2010.  more

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Alcatel-Lucent Wins Cambodian WiMAX Contract

Alcatel-Lucent has been chosen by Cambodia's Chuan Wei to deploy a nation-wide WiMAX Rev-e (802.16e-2005 standard) wireless broadband network, Cambodia's first. Commercial services are set for launch in mid 2009.  more

Related Tags: wimax, alcatel-lucent, chuan-wei, target, Cambodia


Orange Botswana Chooses Alvarion for WiMAX Turnkey Project

Alvarion says that it has won a contract from Orange Botswana for a turnkey WiMAX deployment, using its 4Motion end-to-end solution. The commercial network built at the 2.5 GHz frequency band enables Orange Botswana to provide advanced data services to businesses and homes in Gaborone and Francistown, Botswana's two largest cities with a total population of over 330,000.  more

Related Tags: orange, wimax, 802.16e, alvarion, orange-botswana, Botswana


Ofcom Outlines Revised Plans for 900Mhz Spectrum

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom has revised its plans to liberalise the management of the radio spectrum - which is says will offer faster and more reliable wireless broadband services. The consultation builds on earlier Ofcom work to liberalise spectrum for mobile phone services and make its use more efficient.  more

Related Tags: 3g, eu, ict, rural, vodafone, o2, mobile-broadband, ofcom, radio-spectrum, auction, 2g, UK


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