Networking giant Cisco said Tuesday that it has agreed to spend $330m on the acquisition of WiMAX kit maker Navini Networks. Texas-based Navini develops smart beamforming technologies with MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) antennas, making it a strategic player in the Mobile WiMAX 802.16e space. The new addition will extend Cisco’s wifi and wifi mesh portfolios to [...]
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is expected to announce that WiMAX has been approved as a 3G IMT-2000 standard on Friday. The move will allow WiMAX deployments to occupy globally allocated frequency bands and complement or compete with other 3G technologies. The agreement is understood to have been reached in an ITU meeting held late [...]
US vendor Motorola said Monday that it has a major WiMAX infrastructure contract with Taiwanese operator Far EasTone (FET). FET, which holds around a 33 per cent share of the local mobile market, is also a key player in the Taiwanese government’s M-Taiwan project – an initiative to create a standards compliant environment supporting services, [...]
The global telecoms industry is on the cusp of major change, with operators fast approaching decision time regarding their 4G strategies. According to a study released by ABI Research this week, the critical choice to be made is whether to go down the WiMAX or the LTE (Long Term Evolution) route. Already mobile WiMAX 802.16e [...]
WiMAX-enabled devices will be coming to town next year, according to a pact made between chip giant Intel and Nokia/Nokia Siemens Networks on Wednesday. The trio announced that they are testing interoperability across Intel’s forthcoming WiMAX silicon for laptops and mobile devices, Nokia WiMAX devices and NSN network kit. Nokia is to use Intel’s WiMAX [...]
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Issue 142 June 2007
Featuring:
WIMAX: Commercial deployments of the ‘disruptive technology’ are gathering pace
Christian de Faria: The emerging market specialist currently heading up MTN’s West and Central Africa region
The popularity of mobile content has kickstarted the world of mobile payments Issue 110 April 2004 Featuring: Foot in the door: CDMA establishes its European outpost Friend or foe? WiMAX is the latest technology to threaten 3G