Sprint Sets Sights On 4G
News But Sprint isn't the only mobile carrier investing in new network technologies to handle broadcast TV on mobile phones. Barrabee said: "When you have spectrum assets in your back pocket, that's a differentiator that gives a carrier options...
[June 28, 2006, 16:35]
Photos: Mobile WiMax In Action
News He suggested that mobile WiMax was ideally suited to hyperconnectivity because it "operates on the LAN paradigm, not the classic carrier paradigm" and uses spectrum efficiently enough to cut the price of connectivity.
[July 30, 2007, 18:35]
TD-SCDMA May Not Make Olympics Deadline
News The country's largest mobile carrier, China Mobile, is in the middle of constructing TD-SCDMA networks in cities such as Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen. The carrier earlier in February issued the first TD-SCDMA licences to ZTE, Hisense, LG, Samsung...
[February 29, 2008, 15:21]
MC-CDMA Versus OFDMA In Cellular Environments
White Papers The paper investigates on the one hand, an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based Multiple Access scheme (OFDMA), and on the other hand, a Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) scheme.
[February 16, 2006, 23:00]
Ofcom Hints At 4G Auction Strategy
News However, it could also include WiMax (which has just been given a huge boost by US carrier Sprint's backing), possibly as network back-haul to whatever evolves out of 3G. The next generation of mobile communications — currently ill-defined but...
[August 11, 2006, 11:50]
US Firm Trials 4G Broadband
News The carrier did not disclose how long the trial will last. Cellphone service provider Nextel Communications will begin testing a new, "fourth-generation" wireless-broadband offering later this month with several companies in North Carolina area.
[February 9, 2004, 10:10]
WiMax's Head Start Over LTE May Decide 4G Race
News Another panelist, Scott Wickware, vice president of carrier networks for Nortel, said the exchange of knowledge is also beneficial to current players in the market in helping them in areas such as establishing business plans.
[April 11, 2008, 8:13]
Mobile Industry Gets 4G Buzz
News Earlier this week, Sprint became the first major US wireless carrier to announce it will use WiMax to build its next-generation wireless network. Carriers have barely rolled out their new third-generation wireless networks, and they're already...
[August 14, 2006, 9:00]
Cisco To Purchase WiMax Start-up
News Sprint Nextel is the only major carrier in the US to say it will use WiMax. Cisco is getting into the WiMax market. The networking equipment maker said on Tuesday that it will spend $330m (£161m) in cash and assumed options for Navini Networks, a...
[October 23, 2007, 15:40]
Driving PowerPC Forward
News You'll be able to switch between your network, your carrier, Wi-Fi, VoIP, Bluetooth - whatever. Just ask Michel Mayer, chief executive of Freescale Semiconductor. Mayer's $6bn Austin, Texas-based company, a recent spin-off from Motorola, is one of...
[December 8, 2005, 13:45]
Mobile Broadband Working Group Replaced
Talkback LTE looks very likely to use SC-OFDM (single carrier OFDM) on the uplink because this provides a way to spread energy to reduce PAPR - peak to average power ratio. LTE (Long Term Evolution) 4G is being defined and is agreed on the use of OFDMA for...
[September 22, 2006, 18:27]
Waiting For The Wireless Internet
News The wireless cellular industry is abuzz about the potential of third-generation -- or 3G -- networks delivering higher bandwidths that are expected to usher in a broadbandlike wireless Internet. The hope is that 3G networks will create the kind of...
[July 7, 2000, 13:54]
