O2 to target fixed broadband market with HSDPA

Mobile operator hopes to take market share from fixed broadband businesses with higher-speed 3G; to use Manx Telecom HSDPA launch as test pad.

RTE Business - Irish Broadband unveils new WiMAX plan

Irish Broadband has today announced a major initiative for the immediate rollout of WiMAX broadband networks to 14 of Ireland's major urban centres. The initiative is in association with Intel.

Leading WiMAX Vendors Demonstrate TDD Interoperability in Beijing

PRESS RELEASE Leading WiMAX Vendors Demonstrate TDD Interoperability in Beijing

Could xMax change the world of broadband?

A technology demonstrated in the US on Thursday could shake up the telecoms industry and let anyone become a wireless ISP, if the claims being made by its supporters are true

Telecompaper: "Your One-Stop Source for Telecoms Information!"

After seven days of auctioning, Bulgaria's fixed-line operator BTC and two telecom start-ups, Nexcom and Orbitel, on October 31 were awarded three separate 10-year nationwide licences to provide point-to-multipoint wireless broadband services based on WiMAX technology.

Is the WiMAX-4G train leaving without Intel?

"Qualcomm has outmanoevred the 802.16 camp and the UMTS group fairly substantially by buying Flarion, "The 802.20 group will standardize on something similar to Flash-OFDM. Flarion's OFDM works now, has been through all the trials."

"Why would any mobile career deploy 802.16? All the early simulations suggest it's not going to be a big gain in capacity or spectro-efficiency."

Is the WiMAX-4G train leaving without Intel?

Each of the three vendor lobbies are now exploiting smart antennas, all of them to some extent are dabbling in unlicensed spectrum - with disappointing results so far, we note. And most overlooked of all: all paths lead to OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-division Multiplexing).