Wow. From GigaOM and The Wall Street Journal this morning, the Spring/Clearwire WiMAX joint venture is on, and top cable operators are in on the fun. Comcast is adding more than $1 billion to the venture, Time Warner Cable is putting in $550 million and Bright House Networks is committed for $100 million. That doesn’t [...]
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Get ready for a flood of wireless news and analysis in the run-up to CTIA. Among the topics of discussion will be fierce debate on the current state of WiMAX, and in fact it’s begun already. I opened up TechMeme this morning and was greeted by the news that several cable companies are [...]
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While I was off playing in DC, Motorola officially added to its tally of WiMAX deals. Yesterday came news of a trial in Thailand, the first successful mobile WiMAX trial in the country. Today came word of a WiMAX infrastructure contract in Saudi Arabia.
LTE may be the media darling of wireless technologies at [...]
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Favorite links from a holiday weekend of reading:
Broadband Reports - $2 billion from Intel may bring national WiMAX network
Light Reading - Comcast aiming to implement SDV in 15% of network this year
EngadgetHD - Latest research confirms it – DVRs increase TV consumption
Ars Technica - Retail sales staff don’t know much about the DTV transition
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This was just too much fun not to post. See video from Barcelona below for WiMAX on a Segway. (Thanks, Michael!)
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There were several announcements out of Motorola today at Mobile World Congress. You can read them here, and see coverage of the new WiMAX products introduced here and here,
There are a few issues I’d like to tackle out of the news today, but for tonight I thought I’d limit my posting to [...]
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I’m afraid I can’t add anything to the public discussion about what happens next with Motorola’s mobile devices business. Even if I knew anything I wouldn’t be able to comment, but in this case my knowledge is non-existent anyway.
On the other hand, I can give an update on the Motorola Home and Networks Mobility [...]
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Part 1 of WiMAX at CES focused on the themes I heard in a panel with Sprint, Motorola, Intel and others. Part 2 is based on a sit-down session I had with Motorola’s Fred Wright, an SVP for cellular networks and broadband. Not surprisingly, Part 2 is more Motorola-specific. Here is what [...]
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I promise I will get to Part 2 of the WiMAX at CES series, but in the meantime there’s news out today that Wateen Telecom out of Pakistan is purchasing 198,000 WiMAX consumer premise equipment (CPE) devices from Motorola. That’s not even on the same scale as Motorola cable modem shipments, but for a [...]
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It’s been difficult to sort through the debate over mobile WiMAX in my own mind. On the one hand, people who experience it walk away impressed. On the other hand, there has been significant skepticism since the break-up of Sprint and Clearwire and Verizon’s decision to move forward with LTE as a 4G [...]
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