FierceBroadbandWireless wonders if the recent reported financial results of WiMAX companies is the beginning of a shakeout in the industry between winners (few) and losers (many).
 
http://fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/wimax/2008-08-10
 
Key WiMAX vendors including Alvarion, Redline, Airspan and NextWave posted quarterly results recently as did WiMAX bellwethers Sprint-Nextel and Clearwire: The general takeaway is that WiMAX spending is way down and the economic [...]

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4th Update:  Intel’s WiMAX in India Push
 

Intel is negotiating with WiMAX operators in India while promising to deliver a very low cost laptop with embedded WiMAX interface
August 19, 2008
Intel talks progress for WiMAX rollout in India
Betting big on WiMax in India, chip giant Intel is in talks with telecom operators to enable the growth of [...]

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The Bottom Line: 
Brad Smith of Wireless Week said it best in his July by-lined article, "It won’t happen.  The harmonization of WiMAX and LTE, that is."  
Please see: http://www.wirelessweek.com/Article-Marriage-WiMAX-LTE.aspx 
                        
Sprint, which was one of the founding members of the NGMN in 2006, has recently quit that Alliance after it selected LTE as the 4G technology to [...]

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Having just analyzed recent reports from telecom companies, we conclude that the telecom recession/ depression continues. Revenues are falling way short of expectation, growth is limited to mobile data, and profits are minuscule with the exception of Verizon (VZ). But even at VZ, the growth seems to be coming almost entirely from new wireless data [...]

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Overview:
The global Broadband Wireless Access (BWA)/ WiMAX subscriber base increased by more than 200,000 in the first quarter of 2008, reaching nearly 2 million (1.98M ) subscribers worldwide, according to Montreal based market research and analysis firm Maravedis. Service revenue increased more than 20% to $366.2M. 
 
Author’s Note:   It is not clear how many of these BWA [...]

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Summary of Location Based Technologies and Services Workshop
[June 19, 2008, Crown Plaza Hotel, San Francisco International Airport] 
Alan J. Weissberger
IEEE ComSoc- SCV Secretary and Program Chair
Backgrounder:  
Yankee Group tele-briefing report on Location Based Services and Technologies:
http://viodi.com/2008/06/13/location-based-services-and-technologies/

Speaker Remarks
1. Dave Reid, Director of Business Development, SiRF Technology Inc. http://sirf.com/
 
The world is on the go (which implies that mobile telecom [...]

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Last night, winners of the "beachfront property" FCC 700MHz auction were finally permitted to reveal their plans for using the spectrum obtained.  AT&T and Verizon won most of the licenses, spending a combined $16 billion.  As anticipated, the wireless giants aim to build faster wireless broadband networks capable of delivering high-speed data, voice, video and [...]

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Business Week called it "A WiMAX Breathrough in India- Tata Communications unveils an ambitious plan to become global leader in wireless broadband by launching the world’s largest commercial network
On Mar. 4, India’s Tata Communications , an emerging broadband wireless service provider, announced the countrywide rollout of a commercial WiMax network in India, the largest anywhere [...]

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Saturday’s NY Times had a front page story describing the sorry state of Muni WiFi networks in the U.S.  We long ago suspected that the business model was flawed, but we did not expect that the number of WiFi Access Points on light poles had to be so much larger then originally planned.  What kind [...]

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Huge loss by SPRINT caps plethara of disappointing telecom news
We do not think SPRINT has the financial resources to complete their WiMAX buildout plans. Instead, the WiMAX unit will likely be spun off, with INTEL, Clearwire, and private equity firms buying it. Even then, the future of WiMAX in the U.S. is in doubt- no [...]

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