Yota is busy these days. The first Russian service provider to deploy a mobile WiMAX network, Yota has signed up over 350,000 customers in the six months since its commercial launch in June 2009. It continues to sign up 3,000 customers a day, and is the first service provider to have launched a WiMAX/GSM smartphone.[Read more]

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I have been looking into the future. This time, into what the Chromium OS from Google portends. This is an OS designed for netbooks and maybe tablets. Actually, the OS is Linux (Ubuntu) but with a big change- no desktop, just the Google Chrome Browser and a terminal window for those who speak 'nix. All apps are web apps, so you need a network connection.[Read more]

WiMAX is only available for licensed bands (2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz, 3.5 GHz and others in the future) for which a certification program has been defined by the WiMAX Forum. What if an operator wants to use the same core technology (the IEEE 802.16 standard is defined for any spectrum band up to 6 GHz) in an unlicensed band such as the 5 GHz band or the US 3.65 GHz ones?[Read more]

The Malaysian media often call me “Mr. Broadband”.  I am flattered and somewhat bashful at such an extreme definition, but it does describe what I believe in. In 2005, I was the CEO of TMNet, Malaysia’s incumbent fixed broadband provider.[Read more]

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from our latest quarterly report on all things Clearwire, the CLEARWIRE NTK OCTOBER 2009 (need to know) report, available now for the low low price of $4.95.[Read more]

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This week at ITU Telecom World I hosted a series of panel discussions at the WiMAX ecosystem pavilion. These sessions we moderated most graciously by Dr. Phil Marshall of Yankee Group, and Monica Paolini of Senza Fili Consulting.[Read more]

Often operators do not want to disclose too much about what they do. But one topic that is guaranteed to get even the most guarded operators to open up is the price of end-user devices.[Read more]

  In my last entry I spoke about what was on the horizon for WiMAX, in regards to our plans for enabling retail. This time, I’d like to share with you the possibility of communication solutions providing end users with flexibility for voice and data as they roam across operator networks.[Read more]