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New Sprint-Clearwire deal a shot in the arm for mobile WiMAX
In a complex deal that will certainly be critiqued for months to come, Sprint and Clearwire announced plans to combine their WiMAX businesses and create a new company that will include a $3.2 Read more...
MOT: WiMAX won't have financial impact until 2009
During Motorola's earnings call, CEO Greg Brown said the vendor has shipped 3,600 WiMAX base stations and 120,000 customer premise equipment devices worldwide. The number is a bit of a jump from the Read more...
The CTIA news that didn't happen
The big buzz at the CTIA 2008 trade show here in Las Vegas was the hope that Sprint Nextel would make its big announcement around its WiMAX Xohm business. Word was that Sprint wanted to make an Read more...
Sprint to make Xohm SDK available
While we have noted that Sprint plans to run its Xohm WiMAX network as an open access network, Sprint's Read more...
Rumor: Intel to facilitate Sprint/Clearwire deal
Rumors are circulating again that Sprint Nextel will spin off its Xohm WiMAX broadband unit and form a joint venture with Clearwire. The Street.com is reporting the deal between the two firms will Read more...
WiMAX's future still rests heavily in Sprint's hands
Has the WiMAX ecosystem really progressed to a point where the fate of the technology is no longer heavily influenced by Sprint? During the Read more...
Sprint reveals WiMAX partners
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, Sprint announced that it was still pushing ahead with its Xohm-branded WiMAX network and that it was working with Amdocs, OQO, ASUS, Read more...
Prediction: 2008 is the great open access experiment
The mantra in 2007 was open access, and 2008 will be about delivering on the lip service. Sprint Nextel is embarking on what will be the industry's first experiment with open access. The operator's Read more...
Sprint details WiMAX, PTT and femtocell plans
Sprint gave what analysts called a surprisingly frank discussion of its upcoming service offerings that included more details about its WiMAX launch, the Qchat PTT service over EV-DO and its plans Read more...