Govt to call tender for Wimax in 4th quarter

"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government plans to call a tender for the provision of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (Wimax) in the fourth quarter of 2008."The tender will be held in the fourth quarter of 2008. So far, the number of interested companies is...

Google, others take 14.5-billion-dollar bet on wireless broadband

"Google has teamed up with a pack of US cable and mobile phone companies in an alliance to invest 14.5 billion dollars in a WiMax network for wireless broadband internet across the country, the companies announced Wednesday.The new venture builds on a collaboration between...

IBM Lenovo to Release 13.3" ThinkPad X300 with LED backlit & WiMax Support

This new ThinkPad is called ThinkPad X300 and is an ultra portable laptop with the light weight of 2.5 lbs t has got unique highlight features like WiMax support, WWAN, Ultra-WideBand technology, ultra-thin DVD burner and LED backlit display.

Asus to Show off Second Generation of Eee PC with WiMAX at CES 2008

"Today, Asus released news as a Christmas gift to its Eee PC fans. Asus with Intel and Sprint jointly will take place a press conference at CES 2008 to show off the second generation of Asus EeePC having WiMAX technology."

SMART alliance launched by Navini, Beceem, Fujitsu, Runcom

""The capacity and coverage benefits of combining Beamforming with MIMO are very compelling offering up to double the capacity with twice the coverage of non-beamformed systems," said Sai Subramanian, Navini's vice president of Product Management. "This Alliance ensures broad...

Elcoteq becomes Telsima`s global manufacturing partner for WiMax solutions

""We are delighted to be the global outsourcing partner for Telsima and we believe this relationship is a perfect fit for our Bangalore plant and for Elcoteq. Telsima is in a highly competitive situation and our role is to assist them to enter and reach a leading position on...

Fujitsu and Naivini demonstrate beamformed mobile wimax (TM)

"The demonstration, the first in the industry between two different vendors, took place in Navini's test facility in Richardson, Texas, using Navini's Ripwave(R) MX8 base station running Mobile WiMAX software and a CPE reference design prototype based on the Fujitsu MB86K21...

Sprint Shuffle Squeezes Intel

"The biggest long-term impact of Gary Forsee's departure as CEO and chairman of Sprint Nextel Corp. could be on the company's huge WiMax wireless broadband initiative called Xohm. Some financial and technology analysts believe that Xohm could be in trouble, although not...

Navini, Beceem work to speed availability of Mobile WiMAX modems

""Beceem has seen the value of Beamforming and MIMO-based Smart Antenna technologies for some time," says Lars Johansson, VP Marketing for Beceem, "Working with Navini, an established leader in Mobile WiMAX technology and chair of the beamforming task group in the WiMAX...

Atmel announces only WiMAX transceiver with internal calibration

"Changes in temperature, supply voltage, or frequency during operation will cause RF performance degradation and necessitates recalibration. The calibration routine is continuously performed between transmit and receive data frames, totally independent from the baseband and...

Xanadoo surpasses 12,000 subscribers in the U.S. with Navini

""We are thrilled with our progress in these initial markets," said Rory Lindgren, COO of Xanadoo. "Our solid growth, along with continual positive feedback from our local retail partners and customers, reinforces that our wireless network, value proposition and service...

Ministry to launch Indonesian version of WiMax in 2008

""We will launch an Indonesian version of WiMax on May 28, 2008 at a national awakening in the technology sector," the minister said at a hearing with the House of Representatives (DPR)`s Commission I here Monday. Nuh said the WiMax project is still under research of the...

ApaceWave introduces APW-2000 Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 baseband SoC

"The APW-2000 is a high-performance, low-power, mobile WiMAX baseband SoC containing PHY, MAC, embedded CPU, and multiple data interfaces. Supported by powerful mobile station software, the SoC requires a minimum of external components to create WiMAX modems for CPE's, PC...