Clearwire has launched its WiMAX service in Portland, OR. If you own a WiMAX device and live in Oregon’s biggest city, you can experience 4G wireless broadband by purchasing one of the following plans: $10 for a 24-hour pass $30 a month for 200MB of data $40 a month for 2GB $50 a month for unlimited data The WiMAX forum

The WiMAX Forum Latin America Congress 2008, in Rio de Janeiro 3-4 December, features 70+ speakers, interactive workshops, Analyst Briefings, Investor Pitches, Connectivity Q&A, a Certification Boot Camp, and a lively exhibition floor. Alvarion said today that its WiMAX business in Latin America is increasing, and now has a base of over 30 operators. Large Latin

There are already a number of organisations that capture operators' requirements for handsets and feed them back to the OEMs. The OMTP is probably the most obvious, along with the OMA and some of the activities of the GSMA and CDG and WiMAX Forum. Standards groups like 3GPP also are clearly important in defining the standards for "UE" (user equipment) behaviour. These groups do sterling work ...

I recently chatted online with representatives of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the WiMAX Forum and the GSM Association in an effort to understand how enterprises will apply emerging mobile broadband services going forward. With a quarter-million Wi-Fi hot spots worldwide, it's my take that Wi-Fi could become the default, pseudo "mobile WAN" of choice for the masses of traveling executives. Obviously, ...

Alianza and Redline Communications Group Inc. announced that the companies have validated interoperability of products and services to accelerate voice offerings to WiMAX service providers. Alianza and Redline tested Alianza’s hosted voice platform with Redline’s WiMAX Forum Certified® RedMAX systems as part of the Redline Ecosystem Verification (REV) program. The REV program verif...

The WiMAX Forum and Informa Telecoms & Media today announced the keynote speakers for WiMAX Forum Congress Latin America Conference and Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 3 - 4, 2008. As part of WiMAX Forum’s series of global tradeshows, this event is the largest WiMAX focused tradeshow for the Latin American region and will bring together thought leaders from across th...

The WiMAX Forum has issued a report which projects the Indian WiMAX market including devices will be worth $13 billion in 2012. The WiMAX Forum forecasts that by 2012 the Indian market will support 27.5 million WiMAX users representing approximately 20% of the global WiMAX user base.

A recent decision by India’s Department of Telecommunications to allocate and auction WiMAX spectrum at 2.3 and 2.5 GHz, will enable India to connect over one billion new customers, proclaimed WiMAX Forum president Ron Resnick this week. The WiMAX Forum today highlighted activity in the burgeoning Indian market. They project the Indian WiMAX market, including devices,

Huawei has revealed that it "obtained three Wave 2 certifications from the WiMAX Forum for its newest WiMAX base station, the WiMAX DBS3900, and two of its terminal products, the BM325 and BM625, which are all based on the WiMAX 802.16e standard."

[Shenzhen, China - 9 October 2008] Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, today announced it has obtained three Wave 2 certifications from the WiMAX Forum for its newest WiMAX base station, the WiMAX DBS3900, and two of its terminal products, the BM325 and BM625, which are all based on the...