A new era of mobility seems to be arriving, with the success of CradlePoint’s versatile family of “WiPipe” (TM) 3G-uplinked Wi-Fi routers. The photo at right shows me using a CradlePoint CTR-500 3G+Wi-Fi router in my car.
To make a long story short, I was driving into San Francisco on a beautiful, sunny Saturday morning when [...]
Will the $3.2B Sprint + Google+(et al…) mega-deal bring WiMax coast-to-coast in the USA?
Back on June 8 2008 we wrote about a deal announced by Sprint and Clearwire, that was the best news for WiMax imaginable: http://tinyurl.com/cjo59d
This is a Mega-deal between Sprint, Google, Clearwire, Comcast, Time Warner, and Intel, which was intended to create “the [...]
Nortel will discontinue its mobile WiMAX business and end its joint agreement with Alvarion. The agreement, announced in June 2008, outlined the integration of Alvarion’s advanced radio access network technology with Nortel’s core network solutions, backhaul solutions, and global services. It also covered the resale by Nortel of the Alvarion platform of WiMAX access products.
Nortel [...]
The “super news” the WiMax industry has been waiting for appears to be on the way later this year:
summary Wall Street Journal article: Tech Firms to Build WiMax Network in U.S.
This $3.2B proposed cross-sector tech investment banking deal and joint venture announced May 7 2008 is to be consummated this fall after regulatory review, will [...]
{mosimage}The topic was timely: the status and future of WiMax, and many of the leading players were represented on the panel, which was skillfully moderated by Seamus McAteer. Seamus came equipped to take on the panel and skewer the hype; but he came away a bit empty-handed.
Will WiMax meet the fate of ATM, ISDN, and HomeRF? Or is it going to become a booming global technology? Maybe somewhere in the middle, as an emerging markets play for backhaul?
I attended what turned out to be an excellent WiMax panel discussion held at the Technosium 2008 conference today at the Santa Clara Convention Center.