WiMAX to lead $13bn capex boost in 2007-2012
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Wi-Fi to be sidelined Capex investment on pre-4G wireless systems will reach a cumulative total of $13bn by 2012 if new spectrum allocations, and technology roll-outs, stay on schedule. The main systems attracting this global spend will be 802.16e and its successor 802.16m, and LTE. However, while the latter will see a strong uptick in growth from the turn of the decade, it will not overtake WiMAX in capex terms until 2014.â¦
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While it has yet to turn a profit, Wall Street appeared optimistic about company's plan to build WiMax networks around the globe.
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New Wi-Fi chips increase range of wireless networks by 50 percent, according to the company.
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Telstra has launched Wi-fi roaming with five international wireless broadband operators giving Telstra customers travelling abroad access to WiFi hotspots in the UK (BT Group), USA (T-Mobile USA), Japan (NTT DoCoMo), Singapore (StarHub) and Malaysia (Maxis
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The Taiwan government will sign a memorandum of understanding next week to work on WiMax technology and product development with multinationals including Intel, NEC, Nortel Networks, and German WiMax tester Rohde &amp; Schwarz (R&amp;S).The initiative is part of Taiwan&#39;s plan to become one of the largest producers of&#160;WiMax equipment&#160;in the world. The island is already positioning itself to be one of the&#160;fastest adopters of WiMax wireless broadband&#160;Internet connectivity outside of North America. Officials see the technology as a good way to spread broadband Internet access throughout the island, which includes remote mountain villages and sparsely populated outlying islands.Taiwan often signs such agreements with multinationals to stimulate technology development on the island. Often, such deals offer incentives for companies to build R&amp;D centers on the island focused on a certain technology, such as tax-free status, research grants, rent-free space in science parks and more. Officials plan to release more details at the 2007 WiMax Forum Taipei Showcase and Conference next week.Earlier this week, officials pledged to spend $1.22 billion to build out Taiwan&#39;s WiMax network over the next five years, including $1 billion for a fiber optic backbone running down the length of the island and $220 million for WiMax base stations and other equipment.The island has been promoting its M Taiwan project, or Mobile Taiwan, to speed up Internet mobility and encourage companies on the island to invest more in building products for WiMax, 3G (third generation telecommunications) and other wireless technologies.NEC has already announced that its equipment will be used by Taiwanese WiMax license winner Tatung next week in an ambulance test. The companies will show how a patient&#39;s vital signs such as heartbeat and blood pressure can be sent ahead to a hospital before the ambulance arrives via WiMax, allowing hospital workers to better prepare for the incoming emergency. The trial will run Oct. 22 and Oct. 23, the companies said in a statement.Taiwan held a WiMax license auction earlier this year to six companies, three each for the north and south of Taiwan. The three winners of southern Taiwan licenses were&#160;Far EasTone Telecommunications, Vastar Cable TV System, and Tatung. For the north, the winners were Global On, First International Telecom, and a joint venture between Tecom and 3G network operator VIBO Telecom.&#160;
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Global mobile phone subscriptions doubled over the last four years to reach 1.5bn by the middle of 2004, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said yesterday.
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The worldâs largest maker of wireless networks said today that strong sales in Asia helped boost earnings to $960 million in the second quarter.
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By Anonymous  No sooner has the market for consumer electronics devices incorporating Wi-Fi begun to gain real traction than another, based on high-speed connections via 3G cellular technologies or mobile WiMAX, is starting to take shape.
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The biggest wireless service provider keeps getting bigger
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(InfoWorld) - WiMax World 2007 opens in Chicago Tuesday with major service providers and network equipment vendors expected to offer demonstrations and a few details on plans for mobile WiMax deployments that will hit their stride next year. Sprint Nextel CTO Barry West will provide an update of Sprint's Xohm wireless network in a keynote Wednesday. In August, he said the service will be launched in Chicago and the Washington/Baltimore area by year's end and will reach 100 million users by the end of 2008. Motorola, meanwhile, is planning to demonstrate its coming mobile WiMax technology from a boat in the waters of Lake Michigan. Many of the WiMax plans are focused on major hardware devices being sold to carriers for backhauling wireless signals from outdoor mesh networks that have Wi-Fi connectivity. Sprint's Xohm will be open access, giving WiMax-certified devices like laptops and handhelds the ability to operate at speeds up to 4Mbps, perhaps five times faster than what carriers call third-generation wireless speeds, West said in August. However, one vendor, MobileAccess Networks in Vienna, Va., announced new WiMax hardware today that will work in remote wiring closets of businesses to deliver WiMax capabilities alongside Wi-Fi, cellular, and public safety networks. The MobileAccess WiMax module, to be shown at the trade show, will undergo WiMax certification from Sprint, said MobileAccess CEO Cathy Zatloukal in an interview. "We expect several existing customers will be interested in it," she said. The module will fit inside an existing MobileAccess MA-2000 Universal Wireless Network box now deployed in many businesses to aggregate multiple wireless signals for Wi-Fi, cellular, and public safety, she explained. The value of having a WiMax module to add-in is that it will work alongside existing infrastructure and provides a single cabling infrastructure to support it. One MobileAccess customer, Tommy Russo of Akridge Real Estate Services in Washington, said he plans to add the WiMax module to his MobileAccess hardware when it is available. "WiMax will give us bigger play and more robust service," said Russo, CTO at Akridge, which provides Wi-Fi and cellular services in a downtown building for hundreds of employees and customers. "As more devices use WiMax, which will happen, it enables more things to connect, everything from telephones to laptops with WiMax." Russo said he expects building management and lighting controls could run over WiMax. Someday, WiMax could even be used to merge Wi-Fi and ZigBee, a wireless standard for embedded control devices, he said. Russo said he has seen the MobileAccess module, but he has not tested it and is eager to start testing as soon as possible. His building has been using voice-over-Wi-Fi for about 18 months. The price for the module has not been announced, Zatloukal said. MobileAccess' module is so far unique, although placing WiMax alongside other wireless modes inside a building will be important to other vendors, said Craig Mathias, an analyst at The Farpoint Group in Ashland, Mass., and a Computerworld columnist. MobileAccess competes with LGC Wireless in San Jose and Interwireless in Universal City, Calif., he said. At WiMax World, there will be plenty of demonstrations, including the module by MobileAccess, Mathias said. "The WiMax market is here now, and we'll see a rollout of commercial services this year, so the show is a chance to get your hands on it, to see what it does and what it costs. The reality is coming quickly, and we'll see how successful it will be." Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate
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Sprint Nextel Corp , which recently  said it would spend up to $5 billion on a mobile high-speed  wireless standard by 2010, said it had awarded the New York  WiMax market to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. .
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The chipmaker and Craig McCaw's latest company partner on WiMax--a significant move for the emerging industry.
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(InfoWorld) - Investors have a wide range of technology to choose from in the stocks they buy, and ClearwireÂ  is set to add more WiMax to the list, when it offers 20 million shares for sale at between $23-$25 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The Kirkland, Washington wireless broadband Internet service provider Tuesday issued a preliminary prospectus for a share sale with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and said it planned to launch the public offering as soon as possible after the share sale is registered. It did not give a specific date. Clearwire will become one of just a few WiMax companies listed on a U.S. stock market, and one of the most high profile due to its relationships withÂ IntelÂ andÂ Motorola. The listing may also be a sign that word ofÂ WiMax technology is spreading. The popularity of sipping coffee at Starbucks while reading e-mails on a laptop PC has grown along with wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi. WiMax aims to replace Wi-Fi as a speedier service with far wider ranging access. Clearwire will list under the stock ticker code, CLWR. Clearwire is also offering 3 million additional shares to the investment banking firms underwriting the sale, and if all 23 million shares sell out at the mid-range price, $24, Clearwire will pocket $513 million from the sale, it said in the SEC filing. The money will mainly be used to finance its business. It has spent millions expanding its WiMax network, and expects to need more to continue growing. "As Clearwire is at an early stage of development, we cannot anticipate with certainty what our earnings, if any, will be in any future period. However, we expect to incur significant net losses as we develop and deploy our network in new and existing markets, expand our services and pursue our business strategy," it said in the filing. The company has lost money ever since it opened, and estimated its total indebtedness as of Sep. 30, last year, at approximately $755.7 million. But the company has some big backers to help keep it running, mainly companies promoting WiMax. Intel's venture capital arm invested $600 million in Clearwire last year in one of its single biggest deals ever. Intel Capital commonly invests in companies tied to Intel strategies aimed at growing its core microprocessor business. WiMax has been a major push for Intel over the past few years. The company's line of Centrino notebook PC chips, which put Wi-Fi into portable PCs, was wildly successful on the market, and some analysts say the company could be a big winner with a similar chip package developed around WiMax. Clearwire and Intel have also agreed to jointly develop and promote a mobile WiMax service offering as a co-branded service available only over Clearwire's WiMax in the U.S., according to the prospectus, to target users of laptops, ultramobile PCs, and other mobile devices. Once Clearwire completes its share sale, Intel will still hold a 26.6 percent stake in the company, or 36.76 million shares, while Motorola will hold a 12.9 percent stake, or 16.67 million shares, according to the prospectus. Clearwire sold its wireless broadband equipment business to Motorola last year, and indicated in the prospectus that it will rely on Motorola to supply equipment for its network. Clearwire currently offers broadband wireless services in the U.S. and Europe. Its subscribers rose to 206,000 as of the end of last year, from just 1,000 on Sep. 30, 2004, it said. Its subscriber base has grown despite wireline alternatives for users, including broadband cable modems and DSL (digital subscriber line) Internet service. As of the end of last year, Clearwire services were available to 9.6 million people, including 8.6 million throughout the U.S., and one million in Brussels, Belgium and Dublin, Ireland, the company said. WiMax base stations can send broadband Internet signals to far greater distances than the Wi-Fi technology that WiMax is meant to replace. Although estimates vary on how far WiMax signals can go, in densely populated cities, where users are not likely to be positioned within sight of access points, the distance should be between 2 km and 4 km. A few of the other listed companies in the WiMax field include device maker Proxim Wireless, service provider Alltel, and WiMax network equipment maker, Alvarion. The stock ticker codes of the three companies are PROX, AT, and ALVR, respectively.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corp. expects its first-generation WiMax chips to spawn devices for wireless broadband end-users that cost less than $200 and won't require a visit by a service provider, a company executive said Tuesday.
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InfoWorld - As the mobile phone industry scrambles to put cellphones in the hands of billions of unconnected people in emerging markets, less-expensive, higher-speed WiMax is likely to be the technology of choice to connect them to the Internet.
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Marconi is the latest big name to join the Wimax Forum, which is expected to certify its first long-range wireless broadband products next year.
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An emerging wireless  communications technology called WiMAX, which can blanket  entire cities with high-speed Internet connections, will rival  DSL and cable as the preferred way to connect homes and  businesses to the Internet, Intel Corp. said on Tuesday.