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Verizon: LTE in U.S. by 2009

Looks like the 4G wireless data race is set to heat up a bit faster than most thought — since now Verizon says it will launch some Long Term Evolution (LTE) services in the U.S. by this time next year. Via a report from the always-reliable Stephen Lawson at IDG we learn that Verizon CTO [...]

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Clearwire’s Wolff: ‘full speed ahead’ with WiMAX

Despite what you may have read, heard or thought, there is no chance of Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWRD) abandoning WiMax technology anytime soon. Though Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff did talk Monday about the possibility of adding support for Long Term Evolution (LTE) to Clearwire’s technology mix sometime in the future, in an interview Thursday morning [...]

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Clearwire mum on Xohm launches, says LTE a possibility

The new Clearwire just concluded its first conference call with analysts and press types, and while some questions did get answered there were more questions raised by the quick interaction, including a declaration that Clearwire might switch from WiMax to Long Term Evolution (LTE) as a technology base sometime in the future. While declaring mobile [...]

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3G netbooks, iPhone modems and Wayport: WiMAX has more to worry about than LTE

When searching for a competitive threat to Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMax services, most observers end up looking at Long Term Evolution (LTE), the next-generation cellular technology publicly favored by AT&T and Verizon. But as recent news has shown, the big telcos aren’t waiting for LTE to start heating up the competition. Instead, they’re pushing harder [...]

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AT&T: We like WiMAX!

Readers of our Sidecut Report on WiMax weren’t surprised to read in USA Today that the big telco likes WiMax, despite a strategic direction tilted in favor of Long Term Evolution (LTE) for its main 4G strategy. In our report, we offered some details of AT&T’s current WiMax deployments, which include one in Alaska and [...]

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WiMAX interview: Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff

Even though he’s busy managing day-to-day operations for the “old” Clearwire as he also works on integration issues for the “new” Clearwire and its planned nationwide WiMax network, Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff still found time to talk to Sidecut Reports for a mid-summer update this week. In this edited transcript of our phone interview, Wolff [...]

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Guest commentary: why Nortel switched from WiMAX to LTE

Esme Vos expressed surprise to read in the Wall Street Journal on June 11 that Nortel will focus its R&D and sales efforts on LTE instead of WiMAX. The company claims that demand for LTE equipment outstrips that for WiMAX  and, as a result, they are putting their money into LTE. They are not abandoning [...]

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Question of the day: Why is Nortel giving up on WiMAX?

I was surprised to read in the Wall Street Journal today that Nortel will focus its R&D and sales efforts on LTE instead of WiMAX. The company claims that demand for LTE equipment outstrips that for WiMAX as a result, they are putting their money into LTE. They’re not abandoning the WiMAX market altogether, instead [...]

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WiMax patent pool, looking a bit shallow?

Don Clark of the Wall Street Journal broke the news on Monday’s big WiMax announcement, about a “patent pool” spearheaded by Cisco, Intel, Samsung and others, aimed at reducing the amounts developers (especially device developers) might have to pay for WiMax-related patents. For Clearwire, Sprint and other service providers, having a group with Cisco and [...]

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