Clearwire puts the ‘how’ in WiMAX April 30, 2007
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This is an Update to my previous Post ‘Intel Sets up WiMAX Ventures with Orascom and Enertel‘
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Clearwire puts the ‘how’ in WiMAX
WiMAX is getting a bad rap, but Clearwire has a way to make it work
There is a recurring scene in nearly every Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk asks Scotty to give him more power, and Scotty, with his heavy Highlander accent replies: “Captain, I’m gevin yeah all she’s got! Any mohrrr and I’m afrrraid she’ll blow.”
Scotty’s famous and often-parodied line just about sums up recent realities about WiMAX.
The recent, much-anticipated IPO by Clearwire and its subsequent and sobering 20% decline only seems to validate that, at least for now, WiMAX gave us “all she had.”
Intel Sets up WiMAX Ventures with Orascom and Enertel April 27, 2007
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This article is from from the June 2006 WiMax report, comment if you have any update on the subject.
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Intel Sets up WiMAX Ventures with Orascom and Enertel
Intel Capital, the venture capital investment arm of Intel Corporation, has announced agreements to form WiMAX joint ventures with two firms, Egypt’s Orascom Telecom and Enertel Holding of the Netherlands. Intel will set up Orascom Telecom WiMAX Limited with Orascom Telecom and Worldmax with Enertel. Both investments are expected to be completed shortly, following the fulfilment of certain conditions and the receipt of various approvals. The telco partners will be the majority shareholders, with Intel as the lead investor. Orascom Telecom WiMAX Ltd will focus its efforts on working with governments and companies throughout the Middle East and parts of Asia to obtain suitable spectrum for the deployment of WiMAX services. The creation of the new firm is the first fruits of Intel’s Middle East and Turkey capital fund which was set up in November 2005.
StarHub joins consortium to build Asia-US submarine cable link April 27, 2007
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StarHub joins consortium to build Asia-US submarine cable link
Singaporean telecoms firm StarHub has joined a consortium made up of 17 companies – including AT&T, India’s Bharti, BT Global Network Services, the Government of Brunei Darussalam, PT Indosat, Telstra, Telkom Indonesia and Telekom Malaysia – to build a high-bandwidth optical fibre submarine cable system linking the Southeast Asia region directly to the US. It is estimated the project, called the Asia-America Gateway (AAG), will cost about USD500 million to complete and will be operational by the fourth quarter of 2008. The 20,000km cable system will link ten locations in eight countries across the Asia-Pacific region, namely Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Hong Kong SAR, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii and the US West Coast. A consortium comprising Alcatel-Lucent and NEC has been awarded the contract to construct the AAG cable system.
Source:http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=17623&email=html
Broadband subscriptions in Middle East and Africa up 38%, says DSL Forum April 26, 2007
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Source: http://www.telecomasia.net/article.php?type=article&id_article=4231
Users around the world are using their mobile phones for more and more applications as devices become more sophisticated, so it seemed just a matter of time before a quantum leap was made in the type of content being sent. Now, for better or worse, the age of mobile self-expression and social networking is about to dawn in the mobile world.
Is ADSL up to the task? April 26, 2007
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Is ADSL up to the task?
Apr 11, 2007
By Al Senia