Motorola has another WiMAX market launch coming up on July 21st in Las Vegas. That’s the day Clearwire officially unveils service in the third city on its rollout list. Las Vegas follows Atlanta and Portland, both of which are also powered by Motorola. Clearwire uses the Motorola WAP 400 and WAP 450 access points and [...]
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Averaging one new market every week, Motorola has been pushing the envelope with WiMAX over the last month. Most recently, Smart Communications in the Philippines launched its first WiMAX tests using Motorola equipment. From the press release:
To date, [Smart] has about 8,700 cell sites across the country, housing various network equipment, including antennae for GSM, [...]
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Wondering what to pay attention to in the world of broadband this week? Here are a few stories that have caught my eye.
Remote Storage DVR Gets a Green Light
Several pubs this week have covered the fact that cable operators now have the legal go-ahead to implement remote-storage DVR. This court saga began back in 2007 [...]
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The long-fabled quad play may have finally arrived, and guess what, it doesn’t look anything like originally envisioned. Comcast launched wireless broadband service today in Portland Oregon combining the Sprint 3G network and the Clearwire 4G network. It’s a data-only service, and it represents the ultimate conclusion of major cable operators regarding the quad play: [...]
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Photos have rolled in from friends on the ground during Clearwire’s WiMAX launch event in Atlanta yesterday. Lime green everywhere, and apparently there was a balloon drop as well.
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Clearwire has officially launched its second WiMAX market with today’s introduction of Clear mobile WiMAX service in Atlanta. Like its counterpart in Portland, the Clearwire network in Atlanta runs on Motorola radio infrastructure equipment – the Motorola WAP 400 and WAP 450 access points – and bundles service with consumer access devices from Motorola – [...]
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Analyst Paul Kapustka of Sidecut Reports shared his latest research brief over the weekend detailing recent US WiMAX news and offering analysis of the Clearwire network rollout to date. The brief is part of a new series of Clearwire “Need to Know” (NTK) reports that the analyst firm is peddling quarterly at the ridiculously low [...]
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I’ve heard rumblings recently that suggest there’s some confusion around Motorola’s role in the Clearwire WiMAX network rollout. Is Motorola providing further infrastructure support? Does Motorola have a role in further US deployments scheduled for this year? The answer is yes and yes. One part of the confusion seems to stem from the definition of [...]
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Here’s an interesting turn of events. Even as cable and telecom companies gear up with 4G wireless broadband strategies, Wi-Fi continues to grow in popularity, and more operators are starting to use it to their advantage. After news of Cablevision and Comcast offering free Wi-Fi at select hotspots to home broadband subscribers, it now turns [...]
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Clearwire had quite a few interesting things to say in its earnings announcement today. As expected, the company unveiled several cities targeted for WiMAX deployments this year, including Las Vegas, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Dallas/Fort Worth. In addition, Clearwire said it will expand services in existing markets including Baltimore, Seattle, Honolulu, and Charlotte.
There continues to [...]
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