SAN FRANCISCO--Intel and cell phone pioneer Craig McCaw's latest company, Clearwire, plan to develop and install high-speed networks based on broadband technology commonly referred to as WiMax. Under ...

On Wednesday in Baltimore at the official launch of America's first mobile WiMAX network, Sprint CTO Barry West said that if this was only about launching a new type of network with faster performance ...

Altera and Wi-LAN have announced a partnership to deliver what they said will be the first programmable, low-cost, WiMax-compliant BTS (base transceiver station) modem. The IEEE 802.16-2004-compliant ...

Prices and terms for the WiMax service that Sprint Nextel launched on Monday in Baltimore compare well with other wired and wireless broadband options, but a key measure — coverage — remains a ...

The United Nations telecommunications agency in Geneva gave the upstart technology called WiMax a vote of approval, providing a sizable victory for Intel and something of a defeat for competing ...

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 ...

Clearwire may be optimistic about the growth of WiMAX in 2010 and beyond but network hardware manufacturers are a bit more bearish on the 4G wireless technology. Last month, Alcatel Lucent announced ...

The first commercial WiMax broadband wireless network in Taiwan opened for business on Monday. Tatung InfoComm formally launched WiMax services on Penghu, Taiwan’s largest outlying island, which is ...

Just before Christmas, we published a response from a reader who complained that the lack of competition in rural areas was keeping prices for broadband access high (see “Mailbag: Triple-play services ...

Sprint launched its own version of WiMAX wireless Internet service today, the third company to begin offering a variation of the high-speed Web access in Portland this year.Clearwire, a Seattle-area ...

Ships that call on Singapore can now use WiMAX instead of satellite to connect to the Internet. Already 70% complete, Singapore’s maritime WiMAX network will eventually extend 15 kilometers offshore, ...