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WiMax Joint Venture: Sprint, Clearwire, Comcast and Time Warner With $$$ from Google and Intel, Maybe Announced Tomorrow
Sprint and Clearwire are apparently set to do the almost unthinkable: Get WiMax off the ground. Fortune is reporting that Sprint and Clearwire are expected to announce as early as tomorrow the formation of a massive WiMax joint venture with Time Warner and Comcast. Intel and Google are rumored to be throwing money at the new WiMax party (more?). If you'll notice, this basically rolls up most of the past WiMax rumors into one convenient ball of fun—indicating they were spot on, or that this is just repackaged BS, so don't throw away the salt lick just yet. Godspeed, WiMax. UPDATE: Matt Richtel at the NYTimes corroborates it. More »
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Dear Sprint and Intel,
I'm sorry to hear about your recent WiMax delays and struggles, I really am. The Xohm service was originally scheduled to launch this month, but all you've given us are a few prototypes and half-baked demos in controlled environments—the public has yet to see the technology truly in action. WiMax in general and Xohm in particular have the potential for greatness, but you guys seem to have lost your way. Here are all the signs that WiMax may be washed up: More »
Is WiMax All Washed Up? An Open Letter
Dear Sprint and Intel, I'm sorry to hear about your recent WiMax delays and struggles, I really am. The Xohm service was originally scheduled to launch this month, but all you've given us are a few prototypes and half-baked demos in controlled environments—the public has yet to see the technology truly in action. WiMax in general and Xohm in particular have the potential for greatness, but you guys seem to have lost your way. Here are all the signs that WiMax may be washed up: More »
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Sprint Delays Xohm WiMax Service to 'Later in the Year'
Sprint has delayed the launch of its commercial Xohm WiMax service to sometime "later in the year." Initially due to launch in Chicago, Baltimore and D.C. this month, it looks like it's taking longer than they thought to work the kinks out. Does this spell bad news for WiMax as a whole, indicating that it's got limitations that'll keep it from meeting expectations, or is this just them making sure everything is perfect before stealing out hearts with awesome 4G wireless? Time will tell. [Engadget]
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Sprint Xohm WiMax Test Drive: Just Like Cable
Sprint's got a bunch of devices huddled in a booth running off its Xohm WiMax network: some Nokia N810 tablets and a smattering of notebooks from different makers (like a Windows XP Asus Eee PC, but it was acting a bit wonky, so I had to move on to a more generic laptop). Basically, the internet experience is just like cable, except wireless—the buildout is aimed at 2-4Mbps downspeed bandwidth and about 1.5-2 up, which is exactly what I was pulling here, according to a stealthy speedtest.net check. More »
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Nokia took the shroud off its WiMAX-capable N810 Tablet today, which promises 4g mobile broadband speeds for the handheld internet tablet. The updated N810 will use Sprint's Xohm service, and adds a new mobile dimension to the device, which was previously Wi-Fi only.
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Nokia N810 WiMax Edition Tablet Hands On
Nokia took the shroud off its WiMAX-capable N810 Tablet today, which promises 4g mobile broadband speeds for the handheld internet tablet. The updated N810 will use Sprint's Xohm service, and adds a new mobile dimension to the device, which was previously Wi-Fi only.More »
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WiMax Cellphones Phones From Sprint Later This Year
During the earnings call where Sprint got to chat about bleeding $29.5 billion this past quarter (thanks to the Nextel merger), CEO Dan Hesse confirmed that they'll be releasing dual CDMA/WiMax handsets sometime this year—the first solid word they'd be packing WiMax in phones. Question: Do you care? [mocoNews]
11:00 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By matt buchanan
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Intel Dumping $2 Billion Into WiMax
The rumored Sprint/Clearwire WiMax reunion is apparently coming with a wedding gift from Intel: $2 billion. Given Sprint's shaky legs and Clearwire's teeniness, they're gonna need it to get to WiMax on track for national deployment (it's why we were thought they were doomed to be together in the first place). More »
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Sprint Exec: WiMax Launch in April, You "Won't Be Ecstatic" About the Price
Sprint's CTO says its WiMax service Xohm is a go for an April launch with around 10 devices available. Good news for Sprint! Bad news for you: "People will be excited about our rates. They won't be ecstatic about them because we're not going to give it away." Translation: It's more than you wanna pay. [Reuters]
WiMax-Enabled Asus Eee PC Confirmed
That WiMax Eee PC we heard about last week was confirmed at the Asus/Sprint/Intel press conference today, coming in 7, 8 and 8.9-inch models and a variety of colors.
That WiMax Eee PC we heard about last week was confirmed at the Asus/Sprint/Intel press conference today, coming in 7, 8 and 8.9-inch models and a variety of colors.
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Sprint's XOHM WiMax Service Launching Soon?
According to Phone Scoop, residents of Chicago, Baltimore and DC will be able to get online via Sprint's XOHM WiMax initiative some time in the next few days. It's going to be a soft launch, with not too much promotion, with an official wide launch in the second quarter of 2008. Chicago and Baltimore are going to be able to get laptops and cellphones equipped with WiMax, and DC residents will be able to get WiMax on their guns and narcotics. [Phonescoop]
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Sprint and Clearwire Nix WiMax Partnership
Given the shaky state of the WiMax unit of Sprint, the termination of its joint agreement with Clearwire to bring WiMax coverage to 100 million people comes as something of a surprise. The WSJ's reporting that the "complexities of the transaction" and booting of Sprint's CEO made it too hard for the pair to come to a final agreement. More »
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Sprint WiMax Changes Afoot, Including Possible Merger With Clearwire
Okay, maybe the sky is falling for Sprint. According to the WSJ, Sprint's board is looking at several hard choices regarding their risk-laden WiMax venture, one of which is to spin off the WiMax unit to merge with frenemy Clearwire, forming an entirely new public company. For investors, this might be a sweet spot because it'd ease WiMax doubters' minds (and wallets) while the more daring money-flingers can throw capital at it to their hearts' content. More »
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WiMax Wins 3G Certification from ITU
Pre-4G WiMax is now officially certified as 3G by the UN's International Telecommunication Union, making it the sixth 3G standard. To cut through the alphabet soup (sort of), the ITU stamp means WiMax can use airwaves designated for 3G, which changes the game in terms of 3G/WiMax competition—to what extent remains to be seen, obviously. Moreover, it should bring a healthy dose of development and investment to the WiMax scene globally, so there's a pretty big grin streaking the face of WiMax Forum members right now. For us, it means broader deployment and (hopefully) cheaper prices. [PC World, Yahoo!/AP]
The corporate decapitation of Sprint may jeopardize the Xohm WiMax rollout in spite of its momentum, say analysts. That's a shame, since we need all the wide-area wirelessness we can get. [FT]
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Schools and Non-Profits Cramping Sprint's WiMax Plans?
Fun fact about the 2.5Ghz spectrum Sprint and Clearwire hotly desire for their WiMax dreams: two-thirds of it is classified "EBS," meaning it can't be owned directly by businesses, so it's in the hands of schools and non-profits. To make use of the EBS spectrum, which they need to make good on the coverage maps they're plotting, Sprint has to lease a license from a current holder, most of whom have been sitting on it, doing a fat lot of nothing. Now that Sprint's knocking on their doors with checks, they've realized just what they're sitting on. More »
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When Sprint's WiMax "Xohm" group starts selling WiMax gear next year, it won't be subsidized, but it also won't have an associated contract. This makes sense, considering the Xohm website's puffy manifesto to WiMax-ify more than just computers and handsets, but MP3 players and other gadgets that wouldn't feel right with service contracts.
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Sprint's WiMax Gear To Hit at Full Price, No Contract
When Sprint's WiMax "Xohm" group starts selling WiMax gear next year, it won't be subsidized, but it also won't have an associated contract. This makes sense, considering the Xohm website's puffy manifesto to WiMax-ify more than just computers and handsets, but MP3 players and other gadgets that wouldn't feel right with service contracts.
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Sprint and Motorola Launch Cruise to Prove Xohm WiMax Runs Swimmingly
In order to simulate the most difficult WiMax reception scenario, Motorola and Sprint took reporters and analysts on a Chicago River (booze?) cruise. The service, which officially be ready for "pre-commercial" service by the year end, performed excellently, in spite of deliberate obstacles: More »
11:42 AM on Wed Sep 26 2007
By Wilson Rothman
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