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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Indian WiMAX Spectrum Winners can offer voice, says DoT - August 29, 2008
 
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has proposed that winners in the upcoming licence auctions for broadband wireless access (BWA) - read mobile WiMAX - will be able to offer voice as well as data services.
But the dispensation comes at a price. Instead of [...]

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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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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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Computerworld and the WSJ articles state that several WiMAX stakeholders will jointly license patents that cover WiMAX technology in an attempt to limit royalty rates that could deter customers from using it. The group of six, now known as the Open Patent Alliance (OPA), wants to make IPR costs predictable so that the WiMAX ecosystem will grow.
Larry [...]

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[Author's Note:  Thank you very much to David Irwin, Director of the Communications Law Institute at The Catholic University of America, for his review and suggestions for this article]
Much has been made about the recent 700 MHz spectrum auction and the potentially billions of dollars raised for the U.S. Treasury, but this is just [...]

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WSJ:  Cisco Changes Tack In Takeover Game
 
Cisco is now buying companies and giving them much more autonomy.  For example, Cisco bought email security start-up IronPort, but let it operate as a stand-alone unit, with its own managers, brand name, engineers and salespeople.
 
Cisco’s strategy shift is particularly striking because the company, the country’s third-largest tech firm by market [...]

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Abstract:
 
We have previously opined that the highly touted 700 MHz auction was a win for the U.S. government (almost $20B was raised) and Google (open access rules for C block w/o spending a dime).  Yet it was a big loss for public safety. 
 
Based on a post auction spectrum analysis from a well placed source, we [...]

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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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