Archive for November, 2009
BSNL announces bids for WiMax Services (Going Wimax)
Hindu Business Line reports that five companies have bid for the rights to act as franchisees in the rollout of state-owned Indian telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd’s WiMAX services. Of the five bids submitted, one has come from a major international player. Teracom, a turnkey solutions provider and one of India’s India’s leading manufacturers of power [...] Visit Going WiMax , the premier website…
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Green Packet Announces WiMax Supply Agreements (Going Wimax)
Green Packet Berhad announced Thursday the receipt of three separate deals for the supply of WiMax modems in Eurasia. The mobile broadband and networking solutions provider stated the sale was for the 2.3 and 3.5 frequency range in Eurasia. The Malaysian company signed contracts with Maximali of Georgia, Intellecom of Ukraine and iCON Communications of Armenia. Maximali [...] Visit Going WiMax ,…
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Media G3, Inc.: MediaG3 Announces the IW4G WiMAX Launch of Service Availability in the Silicon Valley (Market Wire)
SANTA CLARA, CA (MARKET WIRE) MediaG3, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MDGC) is pleased to report the progress on the Company’s developing WIMAX service roll-out strategy in the United States.
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SuperFemtos, ‘greater femtocells’ and ‘wide area femtocells’ (3G and 4G Wireless Blog)
Picture Source: Metro Femto by 3G in the home I think some companies may now be willing to go to any lengths to market their products. I did report some initial Femtocell Jargon but I stopped keeping track untill recently where I bumped into three of them in the same day. Ubiquisys, the leading developer of 3G femtocells, announced commercial availability of its wide area femtocell solution,…
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Operator News in Brief - 25th Nov 2009 (cellular-news)
Daily summaries of short news items relating to the mobile networks.
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SFR becomes second Euro carrier to launch femtocell service (Engadget Mobile)
Following Vodafone’s lead , France’s SFR has now become the second network operator in Europe to launch femtocell service for its signal-strapped customers. The Ubiquisys -sourced unit is being sold under the SFR Home 3G brand and runs €199 ($300), so you’d better really need a couple extra bars before you take the plunge — though the good news is that they’re not laying down any arbitrary…
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Clearwire Raises $2.8 Billion for WiMax Launch (Going Wimax)
Clearwire announced recently that it has raised $2.8 billion dollars for a national launch of WiMax services. The company had previously announced that it to stakeholders that it had initially raised$1.85 billion in a bond offering to pay off debt of $1.4 billion. It also raised an additional $920 million in debt, bringing the company [...] Visit Going WiMax , the premier website in the industry…
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Brightpoint Signs WiMax Contract with Time Warner (Going Wimax)
Brightpoint Inc. received a contract to provide an integrated supply chain management system for the next-generation (4G) WiMAX network. Yesterday, the company announced that it entered into an agreement with Time Warner Cable Inc. to provide transportation management, inventory management, device customization, fulfillment, and reverse logistics for the Time Warner’s upcoming WiMAX ventures.
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Samsung Mobile intros 3G UbiCell Personal CDMA Base Station (Technotalks )
As demand for secure, in-home cellular service over current public broadband network is gaining speed, Samsung Mobile declares their upcoming (in 2010) Samsung 3G Ubicell Personal CDMA Base Station.
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Analyst: Femtocells Aren’t Dead Yet! (GigaOM)
Here at GigaOM we’ve pretty much decided that the femtocell market is dead. At the very least, it’s significantly smaller than what was forecast (GigaOM Pro, subscription required) when these tiny base stations for the home first started garnering attention last year. However, analysts at Deutsche Bank beg to differ, arguing in a new report [...]
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NICTA and Rohde & Schwarz Demonstrate Interference-cancellation (MaldivianDigital® :: Forum)
NICTA and Rohde & Schwarz Demonstrate Interference-cancellation Mon. November 23, 2009 Source: Rohde & Schwarz NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research…
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UK Femtocell Maker picoChip Gets $20 Million VC Funding (paidContent:UK)
UK femtocell maker picoChip has secured $20 million (£12.1 million) in VC funding from a host of investors including Altas Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and Pond Venture Partners. Also joining the round are Intel ( NSDQ: INTC ), Samsung and AT&T ( NYSE: T ), which is keen to boost its own femtocell offering . Femtocells are 3G mobile signal generators, designed to boost mobile network and…
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UK Femtocell Maker picoChip Gets $20 Million VC Funding (Moco News)
UK femtocell maker picoChip has secured $20 million (£12.1 million) in VC funding from a host of investors including Altas Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and Pond Venture Partners. Also joining the round are Intel ( NSDQ: INTC ), Samsung and AT&T ( NYSE: T ), which is keen to boost its own femtocell offering . Femtocells are 3G mobile signal generators, designed to boost mobile network and…
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The quadplay myth (Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless)
One of the perpetual themes I encounter at the moment is the notion that the world is moving towards a “converged” situation in which individuals or families purchase all their communications services from a single operator. In particular, there is a fervent belief that people will choose the same cellular providers and fixed broadband providers, tempted by bundling deals and wondrous “three…
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Vancouver Vistors Treated to WiMax During Olympics (Going Wimax)
Spectators and visitors to Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympics will have the opportunity to experience WiMax technology. Guests will be able to receive live scores, updates and real-time stats using their computers and other mobile devices. Craig Wireless Systems Ltd. is launching WiMax service throughout Vancouver in January. Vancouver-area mobile users can use the WiMax [...] Going WiMax…
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Interview with Ronny Haraldsvik, SpiderCloud Enterprise RAN is not a Femtocell
Ronny Haraldsvik, VP Marketing for Spidercloud, explains what their enterprise RAN solution does, why it differs from Enterprise Femtocells, explains their go-to-market approach and gives his view of the mobile enterprise in the years ahead. Their system does use small 3G RF transceivers around the building, but concentrates the…
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Samsung SWC-U200 is Available as Yota’s WiMAX USB Modem (Going Wimax)
Samsung SWC-U200 USB modem is the Mobile WiMAX certified device which is fully compliant with Mobile WiMAX Wave2 profiles based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard. It utilizes CMC-730 Mobile WiMAX modem chipset designed and manufactured by Samsung Electronics, a leading provider of Mobile WiMAX solutions. This device operates in 2.5GHz frequency band and offers high-speed connectivity [...] Going…
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Broadcaster Invests in DigitalBridge WiMax! (Going Wimax)
According to TVB, WiMax provider DigitalBridge Communications has secured a third round of equity financing from investors. One of the investors include Schurz Communications, which also has 10 TV stations in its portfolio of media properties. DigitalBridge previously raised $50 million in equity funding the National Rural Telecommunications Coop, Paladin Capital Group, CNF Investments and [...]…
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Dallas Time Warner Cable Customers to Get WiMax in December! (Going Wimax)
Time Warner Cable who is reselling Clearwire Mobile WiMax service and bundling it with the company’s existing broadband, TV and VoIP services said in October that they’d be launching their service starting December 1st in Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill, Charlotte and Greensboro. TWC is now indicating that they’ll also be launching the service [...] Going WiMax , the premier website in the…
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Global WiMAX Market Analysis (EmailWire.Com)
(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 24, 2009 ) New Delhi, India - RNCOS has recently added a new Market Research Report titled, Global WiMAX Market Analysis to its report gallery. World Interoperability for Microwave Access or WiMAX, has been gaining a lot of attention as a wireless broadband alternative,…
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Global WiMAX Market Analysis (EmailWire.Com)
(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 24, 2009 ) New Delhi, India - RNCOS has recently added a new Market Research Report titled, Global WiMAX Market Analysis to its report gallery. World Interoperability for Microwave Access or WiMAX, has been gaining a lot of attention as a wireless broadband alternative,…
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WiNetworks Acquired by RuggedCom! (Going Wimax)
RuggedCom, a designer and manufacturer of rugged communications networking solutions for mission-critical applications in harsh environments, has announced its purchase of WiNetworks, a leader in the development of systems based on WiMax 802.16e mobile broadband wireless technology. The WiNetworks WiMax products will form the new RuggedMAX product line and augment Ruggedcom’s growing…
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Sri Lanka Telecom to Deploy WiMax in March 2010! (Going Wimax)
The Daily Mirror has reported that Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has received approval from the island’s board of investment for its plan to deploy a WiMax broadband network costing USD12.8 million. The rollout, to be carried out by the incumbent telco’s Sky Network subsidiary, will provide wireless broadband internet services using WiMax 802.16e technology, to [...] Going WiMax , the premier website…
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DigitalBridge Secures Funding for WiMAX Expansion in Rural USA (cellular-news)
Rural USA based WiMAX network operator, DigitalBridge Communications (DBC) has completed an additional round of equity financing, including an investment from cable and newspaper publisher Schurz Communications.
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Euro Palm Pre gets webOS 1.3.1 (at last) (SlashGear)
One of our more frustrated complaints in our review of the GSM Palm Pre released in Europe a few months back was that it ran webOS 1.1.3, whereas at point of launch the US version on Sprint was already a few OS iterations beyond that. At the time all O2 and Palm Europe would say was that “parity” would come later in 2009; happily that time is now upon us, and Palm have pushed out webOS 1.3.1 to…
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Palm webOS 1.3.1 now available in Europe (PalmAddicts)
[From Greg Salmon] Palm webOS version 1.3.1 The Palm webOS 1.3.1 over the air software update is now available to Palm Pre customers in Europe. Added functionality includes: LinkedIn and Yahoo! support for Palm Synergy Link contact and calendar information…
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The Cell Phone Junkie Show #182 (Mickey Papillon)
The Cell Phone Junkie Show #182 1:17:55 Show Notes LTE adoption predictions, smartphone deals as we head into the holidays and a bunch of product reviews. iPhone/iPod Touch Application Sprint Novatel MiFi Review Palm Pixi Review Wilson Electronics SignalBoost DT Review BodyGuardz Review BodyGuardz Giveaway Vote for The Cell Phone Junkie in the Podcast Awards News GSMA predicts 87M subs on LTE in…
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Observations: Uncategorized - November 21, 2009 (The Law of Mobility)
Standard disclaimer: don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out.) A few big numbers now confirmed - 1.2 B mobile web users, 100 B dollars SMS and 3 B SMS users WiMax Has an Advantage [...]
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Focus on TD-LTE by 3G Americas (3G and 4G Wireless Blog)
3G Americas has published an educational white paper titled, “3GPP LTE for TDD Spectrum in the Americas”. The report provides a top-level overview on the considerations for deployment of Long Term Evolution (LTE) in Time Division Duplex (TDD) technology spectrum in the Americas and recommends LTE TDD as a mobile broadband solution to utilize valuable TDD spectrum assets in the region. The white…
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Mobile wireless router from Zyxel competes with Mi-Fi (Computer World)
Wireless carriers and retailers have been promising a wide array of low-priced gadgets beyond smartphones that will hit the market soon, taking advantage of faster wireless networks.
