May 08, 2008

Google & Clearwire uses WiMax to Pave Internet Autobahn

 
 
Clearwire isn't the latest Google acquisition. The Internet search giant, though, has joined a group of blue-chip corporate investors in the new Sprint-Nextel bailout of Clearwire -- a move that will save WiMax and further Google's innovations in mobile search.
 
Clearwire and Sprint Nextel said today they plan to merge their wireless broadband units to create a $14.55 billion communications company. Sprint Nextel will own a majority equity stake (51 percent) in the new joint venture.

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May 07, 2008

Clearwire and Sprint to (finally) form a wireless company

Editor's Note:  Well I am glad they finally agreed on details for this.  Clearwire is a good service (I use it) that really needs proper backing so it can expand into more markets and hopefully they can enhance the service like having a map that shows me where there towers are so I can point my modem it the towers direction to reduce my latency.  I hope someone from Clearwire reads this post.  Contact me if needed.
 
Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are planning to merge their wireless broadband units to create a new $14.55 billion wireless communications company.

The new company, to be named Clearwire, will receive a $3.2 billion investment from Intel Corp., Google Inc., Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc. and Bright House Networks. The investment is based on a target price of $20 per Clearwire share and will give the companies a 22 percent stake in the new venture.

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March 18, 2008

Azulstar to Upgrade its Existing Municipal Wi-Fi Networks with WiMax

Azulstar today announced that it is enhancing all of its existing municipal Wi-Fi networks with WiMax technology, using equipment from Airspan Networks and Redline Communications.
 
The networks being upgraded include Grand Haven, MI - America's first municipal Wi-Fi network, which recently entered its 5th year of operation, and are part of larger regional WiMax rollouts by Azulstar across 15 cities in the mid- and southwest USA including Grand Rapids, MI and Albuquerque, NM.

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March 06, 2008

WiMAX Interfering with Satellite Communications

The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) has published the results of tests it has carried out which is warning that WiMAX communications pose a significant interference threat to satellite signals transmitted in the satellite C-band frequency.

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February 22, 2008

WiMAX as a Military Technology?

Nortel Government Solutions is working with the US Department of Defense to explore possibilities for military use of WiMAX. An ideal situation for the Department of Defense would be a powerful wireless network that could instantly connect “anytime, anywhere” whether in the air, on the ground, or at sea.

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February 20, 2008

Rumor: Intel to Reunite Sprint and Clearwire With $2 Billion WiMax Infusion

A new report from TheStreet claims that Sprint and Clearwire could be reuniting thanks to a $2 billion investment from another WiMax champion, Intel. Before Sprint tore up the existing WiMax agreement it forged with Clearwire, the plan was to split the cost of building a nationwide network between the two companies.

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January 17, 2008

VCs Invest $60 Million with Two WiMAX Providers

Six years into its painfully slow emergence into the telecommunications mainstream, WiMAX, a wireless broadband technology with which VCs have had a fitful relationship, seems to be picking up steam among investors again.

The beneficiaries of the latest round of VC support are DigitalBridge, an Auburn, Virginia-based WiMAX service provider, which received $20 million in funding; and Enforta, a Moscow-based operator which on Wednesday said it got $40 million.

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December 11, 2007

Hong Kong Brings Forward Wimax Spectrum Auction to 2008

Hong Kong’s OFTA has brought forward the auction of licenses for Wimax and other high-speed wireless technologies to the fourth quarter of next year. Marion Lai, director-general of telecommunications at telecom regulator OFTA, said the government would auction spectrum in the 2.5-2.69GHz bands by the fourth quarter together with an auction of 2.3 GHz spectrum for Broadband Wireless Access Services, which already had been planned for Q4 2008. Operators are expected to launch services in 2009.

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November 10, 2007

Clearwire and Sprint End WiMax Network-Building Partnership

Sprint Nextel and Clearwire Corp. scrapped plans to build a high-speed wireless network together after the ouster of Sprint Chief Executive Officer Gary Forsee. Clearwire shares dropped 25 percent. Clearwire, the network company founded by mobile-phone pioneer Craig McCaw, and Sprint said July 19 they would complete the agreement within 60 days. Forsee departed last month after Sprint lost customers and investors including Ralph Whitworth questioned whether the venture was too expensive.

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November 07, 2007

WiMax in Brazil

 
 
Note:  The more I keep reading it seems like Brazil has been on the cutting edge on a couple advancement.  The other one that comes to mind of their new found export of the bio-fuel ethanol. 
 
For some time now, Brazil has been thought of as a key market for WiMax. The country’s low level of wired broadband access is no where near proportionate to its geographic size, making it a prime location for WiMax deployment.

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October 19, 2007

WiMAX Becomes Recognized 3G Technology

On October 18, 2007 the ITU Radiocommunication Assembly in Geneva adopted inclusion of WiMAX into the IMT-2000 family of technologies. This significant decision will make WiMAX as one of the approved IMT technologies and increase the adoption WiMAX in the world.  This latest decision puts WiMAX on the same level playing field as other 3G technologies such as UMTS”.

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September 27, 2007

Google Wireless Network Could Cost Almost $17 Billion to Build

Note:  My vote is do it.  The more Google build's independent access to the people who keep the lights on "search users" the better position they will be in for the future where we will have more players competing for the same pie.

It could cost as much as $12 billion and take as long as three years to build a national wireless network from scratch, Google's Washington telecom and media counsel said Sept. 25. That would be on top of a minimum of $4.6 billion to buy the spectrum.

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September 14, 2007

WiMax Case Study: Ertach’s WiMAX Experience in Argentina

Ertach was founded in 1998 by Millicom International Cellular and the business group Sociedad Comercial del Plata (SCP). In that year, Ertach was awarded licenses of 50 MHz of spectrum in the 3.4-3.7 GHz frequency band for data transmission and value-added services. Today, the company is one of the leading providers of broadband wireless solutions in Argentina and Latin America. But the success they enjoys today was not an easy battle. The company commented to us about the challenges they overcame in order to occupy their present position in the Argentinean market.

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July 20, 2007

Uganda Announces Nationwide Deployment of WiMax

Alvarion announced that MTN Uganda, has chosen its BreezeMax for the 3.5 GHz frequency, as part of a nationwide deployment for providing extended data services to business and residential users. The main deployment project launched in the capital and largest urban settlement of Uganda – Kampala, is planned to be followed by additional network deployments in 30 other cities across the country.

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May 01, 2007

Who Will Provide WiMax?

Note:  Zain makes a good point.  Maybe this under the radar approach will work well for WiMax.  It sure did for early wifi support.  WiMax should have a grassroots approach in its strategy.  It seems to help adoption and then we will see increased support from the manufacturers and developers.

With all the hype surrounding WiMAX as each year passes, the general question that looms over peoples minds are who will actually provide WiMAX? This is an excellent question. Customers, businesses and enterprises can hope to receive some form of WiMAX services from the legacy carriers .

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April 18, 2007

Sprint Taking WiMax Indoors

Sprint Nextel Corp. is already examining a number of different options for providing robust indoor coverage over the WiMax network it is planning to launch in the U.S. at the end of the year and through 2008.

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April 10, 2007

WiMax Case Study - Delivery Industry

Note:  Found this little nugget on WiMax.com.  I love this type of material, helps get the crank turning.

I love tracking a package from FEDEX or UPS online. Online tracking has no doubt been one of the delivery industry's singular pieces of customer service genius. As you know the package is assigned a tracking number and a bar code is attached. Every stop along the way, the package bar code is read and the time and location of that reading is fed into a database which is then accessed online by all parties involved.

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April 06, 2007

Bucking the Conventional WiMAX Wisdom

Note:  Good Read, I like the observations and statistics used to make the case.
 
For a technology that is just emerging into commercial deployment, WiMAX already has a lot of conventional wisdom congealed around it. Most of it has to do with the wireless technology's fabled ability to span great distances in a single hop.
 
For one thing, that's supposed to let WiMAX blanket big chunks of territory using far fewer cells than can WiFi, with its pathetic need for hotspots on almost every corner. For another, it supposedly makes WiMAX ideal for connecting nodes in the mesh networks that are the only practical approach for providing municipal wireless broadband access.

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April 05, 2007

HDTV Over Mobile WiMax

Note: Okay we should expect this to hit the U.S. market sometime in 2017 :) 
 
Japan Radio Company and Runcom Technologies have completed the development of WiMAX base station equipment and user terminals and jointly demonstrated the highest throughput ever achieved over Mobile WiMAX networks at the recent CTIA Conference. Based on an advanced version of the IEEE802.16e-2005 standard, operating at 2.5GHz, they achieved a record throughput of 30 megabits per second.

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March 08, 2007

Clearwire Nets $600 Million in IPO

Clearwire, the company that is building WiMax, a new wireless technology boosts the performance of wireless broadband, has raised $600 million in its initial public offering. It begins trading today.

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March 05, 2007

Clearwire: Taking WiMAX to "The Street"

 
 
On Mar. 6, Clearwire, the company headed by wireless pioneer Craig McCaw, is expected to sell shares in what could be one of the most talked about—and sought-after—tech initial public offerings of the year. The Kirkland (Wash.) company, which provides services through the wireless broadband technology known as WiMAX, plans to offer up to 23 million shares, at $23 to $25 each.

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February 23, 2007

Alcatel-Lucent joins WiMAX Forum Board of Directors

The WiMAX Forum, an industry-led non-profit organization comprising more than 430 companies committedto promoting and certifying interoperable WiMAX products, today appointed Philippe Goossens of Alcatel-Lucent to its Board of Directors. As a strong contributor to the WiMAX Forum, Alcatel-Lucent’s presence on its board of directors is indicative of the acknowledgement by wireless market leaders around the globe that WiMAX is a powerful option for delivering broadband Internet services anytime and anywhere.


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February 22, 2007

Craig McCaw Getting Set to "Pwn" IPO Market in March

Note:  I know what your saying "Craig McCaw Fanboy Alert"!  Well to answer that:  I just can't help it.  Whats not to love about this guy.  I am an old school geek (1984 was when my cherry was popped with my pimped out TI-99) so I have been reading about him for some time.  I was browsing on Seeking Alpha and they have this really nice read about Clearwire and Craig McCaw in general.  I think he is positioning himself for the auction of those 2.5 Ghz licenses under the AT&T/Bell South Deal (The "New" AT&T heh).  There are alot of striking similarities in his strategy thus far and it will be exciting to see what the future holds.

Craig McCaw 

"On the week of March 5, a service provider called Clearwire (CLWR) is going public on the NASDAQ with the assistance of Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Securities, Bear Sterns, and Wachovia Capital Markets. The excitement of the Clearwire IPO has less to do with their technology and the business accomplishments to date, rather more to do with who founded the company. The excitement around the Clearwire IPO has more to do with the founder and Chairman of Clearwire: Craig McCaw (pictured)." 

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February 14, 2007

TowerStream Rolls Out Los Angeles (LA) WiMax Service


 
 Towerstream announced the expansion of its Los Angeles WiMAX network to include the popular commercial district, Century City. Through the addition of new Points-of-Presence (PoPs) throughout the metro area, Towerstream will offer wireless Internet coverage to businesses in the entire west side of Los Angeles, home to many important film, television and music industry businesses.

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Clearwire Moves to the Nasdaq with Wimax Offering

Note: This should be interesting.  I hope them all the best in their initial offering.
 
 
Investors have a wide range of technology to choose from in the stocks they buy, and Clearwire Corp. is set to add more WiMax to the list, when it offers 20 million shares for sale at between US$23-$25.00 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

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