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Results Are In From Pipex's WiMax Experiment
News The company's joint venture with Intel, Pipex Wireless, has been trialling the long-range wireless broadband technology in the Stratford-upon-Avon region. Pipex Wireless experimented with both indoor and outdoor kit from Airspan to monitor the...
[August 16, 2006, 10:35]
Freedom4 Touts WiMax As SDSL Alternative
News Pipex Wireless has rebranded its business and outlined its plans for the rollout of WiMax across the UK. Freedom4 will not sell the service itself, Read said, but instead it will offer it through Pipex's business-services wing.
[October 5, 2007, 12:27]
Pipex Gets $25m For UK WiMax Networks
News Intel Capital is putting $25m (£14m) into a joint venture with Pipex to promote the use of the long-range wireless broadband technology WiMax. The fruit of the union, to be named Pipex Wireless, will provide WiMax access to homes, businesses and...
[April 4, 2006, 16:00]
Pipex And Nokia Siemens Team Up On WiMax
News The newly merged Nokia Siemens Networks is to collaborate with Pipex Wireless on its rollout of mobile WiMax in the UK. As we reach the next stage of our business, we are looking to work with strategic partners that share our vision of offering...
[April 10, 2007, 14:56]
Milton Keynes To Host Pipex WiMax
News WiMax, a long-range wireless broadband technology, will be deployed around the city in a commercial trial by Pipex Wireless, a joint venture between ISP Pipex and chip giant Intel. According to Graham Currier, business development manager for Pipex...
[August 21, 2006, 17:50]
Pipex WiMax Reaches Warwick
News Pipex Wireless, the joint venture between Intel and ISP Pipex, is to set up its second deployment of WiMax in the UK. Pipex Wireless' first run out of the technology was in Milton Keynes last year. Graham Currier, business development manager at...
[January 19, 2007, 9:00]
Somerfield Trials WiMax In Manchester
News However, the service itself is actually provided by Vialtus, known until recently as Pipex Business, and "powered by" Freedom4, the WiMax company previously known as Pipex Wireless. The supermarket chain Somerfield is trialling the long-range, high...
[February 28, 2008, 14:23]
Pipex May Choose Buyer Soon
News Pipex still owns part of Freedom4, which is currently one of the main companies trying to push the long-range wireless technology WiMax into the UK market. Pipex is reportedly close to choosing a buyer for its web-hosting and business-services...
[January 16, 2008, 12:09]
Pipex Moves Closer To WiMax Launch
News The public sector is an interesting starting point, as they would like us to come and provide certain services straight away," Currier said, although he added that the councils "have a view of what wireless will do that is not necessarily [Pipex's...
[July 17, 2006, 17:15]
Pipex Snaps Up Bulldog's Customers
News The Internet service provider's (ISP) remaining retail and small business customers have been acquired — at a fraction over £100 each — by the rapidly expanding Pipex, which has also announced a wholesale deal to let it piggyback off Cable...
[September 7, 2006, 17:10]
Mobile Operators Defensive Over 3G Auctions
News One company that is watching the auction process closely is Pipex Wireless, which has a strong interest in WiMax. Pipex Wireless is part-owned by Intel, one of the biggest backers of Wi-Fi and Wimax technology, and already controls the 3.5GHz radio...
[December 14, 2006, 12:40]
Pipex Communications Becomes GX Networks
News In October 2007, Pipex Wireless became Freedom4, a company which mostly deals with a fixed-WiMax service offered as an SDSL alternative in certain areas of the UK, such as Milton Keynes and Manchester.
[March 10, 2008, 11:54]
Pipex Loses 30,000 Bulldog Customers
News On the plus side for Pipex, it will now have to pay less than the planned £12.5m to Bulldog's former parent Cable & Wireless for the customer base, because the purchase price was calculated on a per-subscriber basis.
[January 19, 2007, 16:30]
Broadband Boom Boosts BT's Profits
News Pipex owns a licence to operate wireless services at 3.5GHz, a frequency used for WiMax. Speaking to journalists on Thursday morning, BT's chief executive Ben Verwaayen denied reports that BT was planning to buy Pipex.
[February 9, 2006, 13:40]
Mobile WiMax To Hit UK Mid-2007
News The 3.5GHz band is owned by Pipex, although the internet service provider (ISP) denied on Thursday afternoon that it was working with Nortel. Pipex has already worked with vendor Airspan in trialling a fixed WiMax (802.16d) system that should be...
[October 12, 2006, 13:05]
Tiscali Snaps Up Pipex's Broadband
News Pipex is holding on to three divisions following the acquisition, namely its business services, web hosting and Pipex Wireless. Pipex Wireless, a joint venture between Intel and the ISP, rolled out WiMax in Milton Keynes last year with a Warwick...
[July 16, 2007, 9:09]
Mobile?
Talkback As I understand it, Pipex only holds the license for fixed wireless access in the UK. Of course it could be moved over to a mobile service should Pipex ever get the mobile license. This collaboration with Nokia uses mobile WiMAX kit but to deliver...
[April 11, 2007, 10:26]
WiMax Trials Reach Stratford-upon-Avon
News The six-month pilot will be run by ISP Pipex with kit from Airspan in Stratford-on-Avon. Should all go to plan with the Stratford-on-Avon project, Pipex and Airspan will start to look at new uses for WiMax, including using the technology with...
[August 25, 2005, 16:35]
Tiscali Buys Most Of Pipex
Blog The deal covers broadband and voice - that's a million customers - leaving Pipex pretty much with its wireless side (so keep an eye open for mobile WiMax). According to that report, Pipex has fallen victim to the high-street "free broadband" offers...
[July 13, 2007, 11:36]
Nokia May Launch WiMax Internet Tablet
News The UK does, nonetheless, have a handful of WiMax networks in place, largely rolled out by Freedom4, the former Pipex Wireless. If this turns out to be the case, the device will mark the world's largest handset manufacturer's first foray into WiMax...
[March 31, 2008, 11:43]
