The only surprise at last week’s Intel Centrino 2 processor launch was the delayed availability of the company’s Echo Peak WiMAX module paired with the new processor family. The fifth-generation Centrino platform (codenamed Montevina during development and renamed “Centrino 2” for production) had already slipped from a June launch at Computex Taiwan to a mid-July [...]

ECI Telecom announced it has entered into a 3-year framework agreement with ELRO of Denmark. ECI Telecom provides network infrastructure to carriers and service providers. ECI will integrate its XDM and Broadgate Multi-Service Provisioning Platforms with wireless equipment from Alvarion and Ceragon Networks. ELRO is Denmark’s utilities company. ELRO was granted a spectrum license in 2007 [...]

Newport Digital Technologies (NDT) announced an agreement to deploy fixed and mobile WiMAX base stations across Northern Italy. The customer will use infrastructure radios from Taiwan’s Institute of Information Industry (III) based on the 802.16-2004 and 802.16e-2005 standards. NDT had announced the Italian network plans in May as part of an announcement for [...]

National University of Ireland, Maynooth has selected Alcatel-Lucent to launch the first mobile WiMAX (802.16e-2005) network service in Ireland. The project is funded by the Centre for Telecommunications Value Chain Research (CTVR) and provides NUI Maynooth staff, 6,000 students and other Irish researchers “always-on” broadband services. Alcatel-Lucent is providing the university with infrastructure base stations, access [...]

The broadband wireless access (BWA) market was rapidly approaching the two million subscriber mark at the end of March 2008, according to market research firm Maravedis. Subscribers to broadband wireless services grew over 260,000 during the first three months of the year, which would have seen the 2 million mark surpassed during the first [...]

Huawei Technologies of China announced a pair of mobile WiMAX wins this week. The equipment manufacturer will supply 802.16e-2005 network infrastructure to Mobilink of Pakistan and Asiaspace of Malaysia. As a result of the new customer projects, Huawei claims 19 overseas commercial WiMAX contracts. Mobilink is the largest GSM operator in Pakistan and a [...]

Proxim Wireless announced that telecommunications provider Televersa Online of Bavaria, Germany, has chosen the company’s Tsunami MP.16 WiMAX products to build its fixed WiMAX network. Televersa recently acquired a 3.5 GHz broadband wireless access license for the network. Televersa Online has already deployed proprietary Tsunami MP.11 multipoint base stations and subscriber units for [...]

Amid lackluster subscriber numbers and limited network coverage, South Korea’s WiBro service is planning a resurgence. The WiBro launch in June 2006 served as the prototype for 802.16e-2005 networks. A revision to infrastructure and devices is in the works to improve network performance and coverage, conforming to the WiMAX Forum Wave 2 certification requirements. Mobile [...]

DigitalBridge Communications (DBC), a wireless ISP in the United States, has launched the first commercial Mobile WiMAX network using WiMAX Forum Certified 802.16e equipment in the U.S. with service in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The new mobile capability enhances its BridgeMAXX fixed high-speed wireless Internet service. The service uses Alvarion’s BreezeMAX 2.5 GHz base station, which [...]

First and fastest is not enough for broadband-savvy South Korea. The country’s WiBro service, based on 802.16e-2005 mobile WiMAX, is preparing for a boost in performance later this year that is expected to keep the service at the leading edge of mobile broadband. WiBro services first launched in mid-2006 as three operators sought [...]