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WiMax Joins 3G Family
News WiMax has effectively been folded into 3G's future development, after the International Telecommunication Union decided on Friday to include it in the IMT-2000 set of standards. Although WiMax and 3G have been battling it out as rival broadband...
[October 19, 2007, 17:57]
A Multi-Radio Future? Wi-Fi, WiMAX, 3G, UWB: Complementary?
White Papers The next big growth area will lie in Metropolitan Area Networking technologies like WiMAX, which will bring the next wave of fixed and mobile broadband wireless connectivity. Confused by all the new wireless technologies out there?
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
3G's Growing Pains Hurt WiMax More
Leader Perversely, these problems are even worse news for WiMax. With GSM/3G, WiMax finds itself preparing to fight a technology that's already on a war footing, already engaged in ruthless margin battles, with strategic billing, security and worldwide...
[October 16, 2007, 15:43]
Understanding WiMAX And 3G For Portable/Mobile Broadband Wireless
White Papers This white paper focuses on the major technical comparisons between WiMAX/OFDMA (IEEE 802.16e) and 3G/WCDMA/HSDPA for mobile/portable broadband data services. New and increasingly advanced data services are driving up wireless traffic, which is...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Bringing Wireless Access To The Automobile: A Comparison Of Wi-Fi, WiMAX, MBWA, And 3G
White Papers This paper presents a comparison of four next-generation wireless technologies: Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11), WiMAX (IEEE 802.16), MBWA (IEEE 802.20), and 3G (ITU), in respect to which technology or combination of technologies provides a solution for the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Orange Trials 3G Rival To WiMax
News IPWireless has claimed that this service will provide the same level of performance as WiMax. Orange has begun testing a wireless technology that could allow 3G operators to operate much faster data services.
[March 31, 2005, 16:50]
Orange Trials 3G Rival To WiMax
Talkback 12 Mbps with HSDPA, 14 Mbps with this technology, all sounds great in theory, particularly for the hardware manufacturers, but why do you want 12 Mbps on a mobile phone, another interesting thing is that, all that is required from the operators...
[April 3, 2005, 16:40]
Orange Trials 3G Rival To WiMax
Talkback Oh great, another 3G trial. It took long enough for these gready companies to get the services operational and to get the handset manufacturers to bring out corresponding phones. But how long will it take for the prices to come down, down to almost...
[March 31, 2005, 19:46]
Beyond 3G: HSDPA, WiMax Show Mobile Promise
White Papers Getting the most buzz in the mobile-data-access industry right now is 802.16e, the mobile version of WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access). WiMax has significant backing from Intel Corp.and the fixed-point variety, 802.16a, has...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
WiMAX - Threat Or Opportunity For 3G?
White Papers WiMAX is not a single ubiquitous standard. The 802.16-2004 "fixed WiMAX" standard may have some success. Under most circumstances, although WiMAX may be suitable for last mile home deployment, it will have limited success because in many cases...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
More 3G Auctions Planned
News Ofcom said on Monday that it will auction a large chunk of radio spectrum that would allow network operators to build 3G and WiMax networks. Ofcom says it will not concern itself with the type of technology used, adding that interest is likely to...
[December 11, 2006, 16:36]
WiMax's Head Start Over LTE May Decide 4G Race
News WiMax could prove to be the winner in the 4G race against the long-term evolution of 3G simply because the technology is here first. Teresa Kellett, director of global development for telco Sprint Nextel, said during a panel discussion at this week...
[April 11, 2008, 8:13]
Lack Of WiMax Standards 'hindering Adoption'
News Continued delays in the WiMax certification process are posing a "real challenge" to the rollout of a long-range wireless broadband service in Europe. WiMax vendors have realised the need for common open standards, with the 802.16d standard the...
[December 8, 2005, 16:10]
WiMax Spectrum Row Heats Up
News Supporters of WiMax technology are up in arms after a mobile industry body called for key bands of spectrum to be reserved for 3G services. It is ideal for new bandwidth-hungry 3G services such as mobile TV, and also for making mobile WiMax — seen...
[July 18, 2006, 16:50]
EC Proposes TV Spectrum For WiMax
News UHF spectrum should be allocated to WiMax once Europe's analogue television signals are phased out, the European commissioner for information society and media has proposed. Noting that plans were already underway across Europe to open up the...
[June 13, 2007, 11:30]
Not Quite As Rosy
Talkback And don't write off Wimax just yet. There's work going on in the UK through Freedom4, which is Intel funded, and has commercial deployments - albeit with fixed Wimax. But with the Wimax and 3G standards coming together, don't write it off just yet.
[January 10, 2008, 13:33]
Mobile Broadband Wireless Access
White Papers This paper evaluates the current commercial alternatives to satisfy that need: WiMAX variants, MBWA (IEEE 802.20), Flash-OFDM and 3G technologies. Based on the material, both 3G (HSDPA) and Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e) have widespread support and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Nokia May Launch WiMax Internet Tablet
News Reports suggest that Nokia is about to launch a WiMax-centric internet tablet. According to the Internet Tablet Talk blog, a WiMax version of the Linux-based N810 tablet was briefly spotted on a Nokia website before being pulled down.
[March 31, 2008, 11:43]
WiMax Cut Off By HSDPA In Asia
News High-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) could impede WiMax development in the Asia-Pacific region, one of the key areas companies are looking at for the technology, according to a market analyst. Teyew Sin Siew, head of telecoms research at Frost...
[April 24, 2006, 15:55]
The Promise Of WiMAX
White Papers WiMAX offers benefits for wireline operators who want to provide last mile access to residences and businesses, either to reduce costs in their own operating areas, or as a way to enter new markets.e offers cost reductions to mobile operators who...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
