It’s been just over a year since WiMAX made its big debut in the United States and we’re already looking at a sequel. … more

Just as WiMax mobile broadband technology starts to recover from losing the big battle for industry dominance to Long Term Evolution (LTE), a new version of LTE is attacking it in its newly secured niche. … more

As the nation’s wireless carriers rush to compete with faster 4G speeds on either WiMax or LTE technology, their workers are toiling in the trenches to make it happen. … more

Kerry Stokes added an element to his media set-up in Perth yesterday when the Seven Network’s wireless broadband subsidiary Vividwireless launched its $50 million WiMax network. … more

Local cash-strapped mobile telecoms operator First International Telecom Corp (大眾電信) has signed a second contract with Motorola Inc to deploy a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) network in Hsinchu, a joint statement released yesterday said. … more

Motorola’s Networks business has landed a contract from Taiwanese telecom operator First International Telecom (FiTEL) to deploy a WiMAX network in northern Taiwan. … more

It’s been just over a year since WiMAX made its big debut in the United States and we’re already looking at a sequel. … more

With the launch of Sprint’s WiMax wireless broadband data service, called Xohm (pronounced “zome”) in Baltimore in early October, Sprint was able to rightly claim it is the first carrier to offer the long-awaited official version of the technology to businesses and consumers. (Clearwire, a provider of pre-standard WiMax service that Sprint’s Xohm unit will be merged into later this year, began its service offerings earlier.) … more

Over the past few years mobile WiMAX has moved through standardization, productization, and interoperability testing and certification. Larger-scale network deployments are finally becoming a reality. … more

Optus will be the first telco in the nation to trial a new mobile broadband technology that transmits data 20 times faster than current 3G systems. … more