Category: Alan Weissberger
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WiMAX in India Update
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.…
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WiMAX and LTE Go Separate Ways- No Merger Likely Any Time Soon
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…
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An Unhealthy Industry: Telecom reports indicate continued contraction in revenues and growth
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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Maravedis-BWA Webinar: WiMAX Counts 1Q08 Market Survey
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…
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AT&T, Verizon Wireless Underwhelming Plans for 700MHz Spectrum
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…