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Tuesday 8 July 2008
Mobile capex more than US$131 billion and rising despite turbulent economy
Global capital expenditure on mobile communications continues to rise due to greater emphasis on new data services, increased traffic load, and preparation for 4G deployments. With...
Friday 4 July 2008
NCC rejects Fitel WiMAX spin-off application
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) on July 3 rejected an application by First International Telecom (Fitel) to spin off its WiMAX business to form a new company.
Friday 4 July 2008
Mobile WiMAX to be technology for developing countries
Mobile WiMAX may not succeed in mature mobile broadband markets, but it will have a future in BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) countries, especially in India according to an...
Thursday 3 July 2008
Commentary: Can cable TV operator Vastar successfully run a WiMAX network?
Vastar Cable TV Systems, a cable TV operator in central Taiwan, made a surprise debut in Taiwan's WiMAX industry by managing to secure a WiMAX license in July 2007. While the company's...
Wednesday 2 July 2008
Keithley sees substantial opportunity from WiMAX penetration
Keithley Instruments agrees that substantial business potential will be derived from WiMAX as the market is believed to be worth a production value of US$4 billion in 2012, said company...
Friday 27 June 2008
Agencies partner to bring femtocells to next-generation mobile networks
The Femto Forum, the independent industry association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide, and the NGMN Alliance, the group focused on the evolution to the next generation...
Friday 27 June 2008
Fujitsu launches Mobile WiMAX chipsets
Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited (FML) recently announced its new mobile WiMAX chipset optimized devices such as smart phones and PDAs. Sample shipment will start in August 2008....
Thursday 26 June 2008
Mobile WiMAX equipment sales jump 141% in 1Q08
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reported recently that the worldwide WiMAX equipment market, including fixed and mobile WiMAX equipment, increased 59% sequentially...
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Commentary: Will WiMAX mark a milestone for 90-year-old Tatung?
Tatung InfoComm, a WiMAX licensee for the southern region of Taiwan, is a subsidiary of Tatung Company, which celebrates its 90-year anniversary in 2008. Will the WiMAX license likely...
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Freescale intros multi-standard accelerator supporting 3G-LTE, WiMAX, HSPA+ and TDD-LTE base stations
Freescale Semiconductor recently introduced the industry's first multi-standard baseband accelerator device (MSBA8100) that supports 3G-LTE, wireless WiMAX, HSPA+ and TDD-LTE standards,...
Tuesday 24 June 2008
Mobile WiMAX likely to be unfeasible, says Frost & Sullivan
If spectrum auctions and commercial Mobile WiMAX rollouts (compliant to Wave 2 Phase 2 certification) do not take place by 2008, the market scope for Mobile WiMAX on a global basis...
Friday 20 June 2008
Taiwan financial group Shin Kong reportedly to cooperate with KDDI to invest in APBT
Taiwan-based Shin Kong Financial Group plans to cooperate with KDDI, the second largest mobile telecom carrier in Japan, for joint investment in Asia Pacific Broadband Telecom (APBT),...
Friday 20 June 2008
Fitel begins to purchase WiMAX USB dongles
First International Telecom (Fitel), a WiMAX licensee for the northern region of Taiwan, has placed orders for 5,000 WiMAX USB dongles from three Taiwan-based companies – D-Link,...
Friday 20 June 2008
Zyxel shipments of WiMAX products to US market remain steady
Shipments of Zyxel Communications' WiMAX products to the US have remained steady, and have not been exposed to recently rumored problems related to WiMAX chips, according to Zyxel.
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Zyxel expected to land WiMAX CPE orders from Pakistan Mobilink
Zyxel Communications is likely to land orders for WiMAX CPE (customer premise equipment) products from Pakistan service operator Mobilink at the ongoing CommunicAsia 2008 expo in...