Category: Wireless
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Workshop Report: Clearwire on track with rollouts and app tools, but MSO partners struggle with Business Models
Author's Disclaimer: Unlike many "would be journalists" that are either always negative on WiMAX, or are "perennial pollyannas" that produce an endless stream of recycled "happy talk," this author tries to be balanced and objective of WiMAX in general and the WiMAX events covered in particular. This author been covering WiMAX for over 6 years…
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WiMAX Handsets for CLEAR vs Mobile Skype over VZW 3G network
From robust and reliable backhaul, to applications tools for developers, to femtocells, Clearwire speakers covered a lot of ground at the Feb 10th IEEE ComSocSCV meeting in Santa Clara, CA. For backgrounder and slides: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/comsoc/ComSoc_2010_Presentations.php photo credit: conskeptical Whither WiMAX Handsets? For sometime, I've wondered if mobile WiMAX could succeed without any handsets (especially smart phones). I…
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Clearwire to disclose Developer Opportunities with CLEAR WiMAX 4G
IEEE ComSoc SCV is very fortunate to have two influential Clearwire professionals speak at our Feb 10th IEEE ComSoc-SCV meeting in Santa Clara (logistics and other details at www.comsocscv.org). The topic is: Developer Opportunities with CLEAR WiMAX 4G Abstract: Mobile WiMAX as provided by Clearwire (the CLEAR network) is also available from Sprint, Comcast, and…
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Broadband Grants – the Link to Tobacco
Unlike the federal broadband stimulus, which may remind some of the Carly Simon song Anticipation, a grant program funded by the Virginia Tobacco Commission just awarded $1,514,143 to members of the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC). These 50/50 matching grants are helping to expand broadband to over 15k residential and business customers who previously only had…
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Assessment of Mobile WiMAX and the CLEAR network in the U.S.
Abstract: In early 2006 we wrote an article titled, Will the Real “Mobile WiMAX” Please Stand Up! It’s now almost four years later, with the Clearwire-Sprint-Comcast-TWC rollouts well underway in the U.S. It’s time for a hard look to see if the mobile WiMAX vision has been realized. Unfortunately for WiMAX advocates like Intel, it…
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Learn How to Be a Wireless Mogul
Anyone with a credit card can become a wireless mogul. Well, maybe he won't be the next Craig mcCaw, but he can effectively use a slice of spectrum for backhaul, residential or some specialized industrial use. The WCAI has a webinar on 11/18 that will explain the details of this relatively unknown program (although more…