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Cisco backpedals on WiMAX with Starent buy

This week's $2.9 billion acquisition of Starent Networks indicates that Cisco is backpedaling from its WiMAX focus and shifting it to LTE as the 4G underpinning of next generation mobile data networks.

| News | Mobile & wireless | Networking | 10/14/09 at 8:09 pm |


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Russian WiMax operator eyes GSM handover, WiMax 2 tests

Russian WiMax operator Yota will soon begin offering its customers a WiMax terminal that can make VOIP calls -- and hand them over to a GSM network when the caller wanders out of the WiMax coverage area.

| News | Mobile & wireless | Networking | 10/07/09 at 1:15 pm |


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WiMax in 2010: Too little, too late?

By the end of 2010, users in more than 80 U.S. cities may be able to ditch their cable modems, T1 setups and DSL lines -- and the Wi-Fi routers that go with them -- in favor of WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) broadband wireless technology.

| News | Mobile & wireless | 09/18/09 at 3:46 pm |


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Clearwire Woos Developer Crowd with Free WiMax

Clearwire, the foremost flag-bearer for the WiMax flavor of 4G wireless service worldwide, has launched a free WiMax network for the developer community in Silicon Valley.

| News | Mobile & wireless | Networking | 09/17/09 at 4:28 pm |


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Alvarion signs $100 million deal with rural WiMAX provider

Equipment vendor Alvarion will be teaming up with ISP Open Range Communications to build out a WiMAX network that the companies say could reach up to 6 million people.

| News | Mobile & wireless | 06/17/09 at 7:50 pm |


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