Alvarion still buoyant
March 13, 2009 Written by Ken Wieland
Telecoms.com talks to Alvarion CEO, Tzvika Friedman, about strategy and growth prospects for the Israel-headquartered WiMAX RAN supplier.
Alvarion
WiMAX founder backs TD-LTE
July 14, 2010 Written by James Middleton
Israeli infrastructure vendor Alvarion, a company that bills itself as a “founder of the WiMAX industry,” is to start making LTE kit for the TDD flavour of the 4G technology.
Betting on WiMAX chips
April 6, 2009 Written by telecoms.com editorial
A mature chipset ecosystem shortens odds for WiMAX success
Issue 06 April 2009
Featuring:
Market Watch: Listing of WiMAX deployments in Asia
Feature: No painless upgrade to LTE or WiMAX
Case study: Digicel jumps from GSM to WiMAX
Green light for VMAX in Taiwan
March 3, 2009 Written by Ken Wieland
The National Communications Commission (NCC), Taiwan’s regulator, has given the go-ahead to VMAX to start rolling out WiMAX base stations and related infrastructure in its licensed areas in the island’s northern region
WiMAX: willing and scalable
February 24, 2009 Written by Ken Wieland
Behind the touchscreen and ‘app store’ fanfare at the MWC event in Barcelona last week, WiMAX was taking quiet but significant steps towards having what the WiMAX Forum believes will be 800 million people within reach of WiMAX networks by 2010.
Tags; Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion, India, LTE, Alcatel-Lucent, Americas, Asia Pacific, LTE, Networks, Opinion, WiMAX
Fightin’ talk
February 13, 2009 Written by The Informer
Yesterday the Informer received an email containing a press release which opened with the following sentence: “Nortel today made two announcements, highlighting its leadership in Carrier VoIP and its continued commitment to its carrier customers.” While its carrier customers across the globe may have rejoiced at these glad tidings, Israeli firm Alvarion probably muttered some blue language under its breath.
Alvarion CEO hits out at Nortel
February 12, 2009 Written by Ken Wieland
The CEO of Israeli WiMAX vendor Alvarion, Tzvika Friedman, has voiced his anger over the firm’s exposure to the strife of its distribution partner Nortel Networks. Speaking to Telecoms.com yesterday he accused the Canadian firm of exploiting Chapter 11 rules to avoid paying Alvarion money the firm is owed – and vowed to reclaim it [...]
Ice, ice baby
February 6, 2009 Written by The Informer
It seems that the UK is about as well equipped to deal with a moderate dumping of snow as it would be to manage a surprise visit from a flying saucer full of angry, tentacled, mucus-dripping extra-terrestrials. Things didn’t so much grind to a halt here on Monday as stop in their tracks; frozen – literally – to the spot. From the streets of London it looked as if an apocalyptic ice age had struck. Cars were left in the middle of the road, or half mounting the pavement where people had abandoned them. Shops were shut. All was still and eerily quiet. Until you came to one of the city’s parks, that is, most of which were full of joyous citizens, of all ages, frolicking in the white stuff. Wonderful scenes.
Alvarion Q4 hit by Nortel deal collapse
February 4, 2009 Written by Ken Wieland
Alvarion, an Israeli WiMAX kit maker, posted a net loss of $4.8m during Q4 2008 following a restructuring charge of $3.4m related to the collapse of its partnership with Nortel. Without the restructuring charge and other related expenses, Alvarion would have posted a Q4 net income of $119,000. This compares to a net income of [...]
Nortel quits WiMAX
January 30, 2009 Written by Ken Wieland
Nortel, the beleaguered Canadian telecom supplier sheltering in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, has severed its WiMAX partnership with Alvarion. In doing so, Nortel’s interest in WiMAX comes to an end. “We are taking rapid action to narrow our strategic focus to areas where we can drive maximum return on investment,” Richard Lowe, president of Nortel’s [...]
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