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Sprint and Clearwire Marriage Official: WiMax Network Branded “Clear”

The Sprint/Clearwire joint WiMax venture announced back in July is a done deal, as is the $3.2 billion investmentfrom Intel, Google and others. The WiMax network will branded Clear, replacing the stupid Xohm moniker. https://gizmodo.com/wimax-just-might-make-it-sprints-wimax-and-clearwire-o-388132 Initially, the network will deliver an average of 2-4Mbps downstream, with the first devices outside of laptops and USB modems…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 1

Acer Aspire One Tested with WiMax

The WiMax Acer Aspire One hasn’t even been announced yet (UPDATE: actually, it just was), but Laptop Magazine got their hands on a model and got to poke and prod it to their hearts’ content. So how did browsing the web on a tiny WiMax notebook work? Pretty decently.In speed tests around Baltimore, the netbook…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 9

Start Your WiMax Engines With Laptops From Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba

Sprint’s Xohm WiMax network got extra super official today with a party and all, so laptop makers are tossing out confetti in the form of WiMax-enabled notebooks. Here’s what you’ve got to pick from. Acer dropped a pair of Aspire cheapies in 14- and 16-inch sizes, while Asus’s 14 and 15-inchers are a bit mo’…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 8

Sprint WiMax Slowing Down Corporations with “Narrow” Certification Pipeline

Sprint’s enticing Xohm WiMax network is slowly making its way across the country, but Lenovo has complained of a major problem with it gaining popularity. According to GigaOM, Lenovo expected to dominate the market with a variety of WiMax products since they had put a lot of time and effort into testing equipment. But Lenovo…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 8

Acer 14-inch, 16-inch Aspires Are Built for WiMAX

Now that the Baltimore’s XOHM network is up and running, companies are scrambling to release WiMAX-enabled notebooks to capitalize on faster-than-EVDO internet. One of the first out the door is Acer, with two new WiMAX sporting Aspires. The Aspire 4930 comes with a 14.1-inch 1280×800 resolution CrystalBrite screen, 3GB RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 8

Xohm’s WiMax Coverage Quietly Live and Working in Six More Cities

We saw Sprint/Clearwire/whoever‘s Xohm WiMax tested in B-more with speedy results. And now, news from a Xohm employee in Baltimore is that the service is also live and working (albeit in an “unsupported” test capacity) in Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and northern Virginia. So anyone with WiMax-enabled hardware in those cities, let us…

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 6

Xohm Tested Out in Baltimore: Beats EVDO, Unsurprisingly

Laptopmag went ahead and tested out Xohm WiMax goodness, now that it’s live in Baltimore. They jammed an ExpressCard Xohm into a Sony Vaio laptop, and compared it to a Kyocera EVDO card running on Verizon, at a spot where both signals were strong. The conclusion? Xohm beats EVDO for speed when doing intensive downloading,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 1

Sprint’s Xohm WiMax Will Neuter Heavy Downloaders

For all the talk that Sprint’s freshly launched Xohm WiMax would be the openest internets ever and can totally replace your ISP, when it comes to bandwidth-sucking apps, that’s not the case. It’ll neuter file-sharing applications, or anything else—like VoIP—that uses a lot of bandwidth. To ensure a high-quality experience for its entire subscriber base,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 29

Sprint XOHM WiMax Quietly Goes Live In Baltimore

Just over a week ago the word was that Baltimore, the first city in a pilot program for the new wireless tech, might not see WiMax until October. With a minimal announcement and little fanfare, though, it looks like the service has gone live in select parts of the city. The pricing options are interesting…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 29

Sprint’s Xohm WiMax Service Delayed Again, Possibly

We’ve been talking about Sprint’s Xohm Wimax service for ages—tracking its on again, off again status. And now it looks like it’s been slightly delayed again, from September to October 6th. A tipster at DSLreports is saying news on coverage, and the all-important pricing scheme will hit September 26th, on Sprint’s site. But, according to…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 19

Sprint and Clearwire Promise WiMax Will Be Totally Open, Can Replace Your ISP

In its filing to the FCC oh-so-politely asking for the okay to merge Sprint’s and Clearwire’s spectrum assets into the WiMax monolith New Clearwire (helpfully poked through by Ars), they make a lot of groovy promises to stoke the FCC’s approval stamp into action. Like it’ll be totally open: “New Clearwire will permit consumers to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 12

WiMax Just Might Make It: Sprint’s WiMax and Clearwire Officially Merge

The massive WiMax joint venture expected to be announced today is official, though the rumored details were a bit off. Sprint’s WiMax division is merging with Clearwire to form a single WiMax company called…Clearwire. (But Sprint will own most of it.) Happily, the clusterfuckiness factor is lower than we figured. Google, Intel, Time Warner and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 7

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…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 6

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…

Tech News Adrian Covert Apr 4

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…

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 3

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…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Apr 1

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. https://gizmodo.com/wimax-enabled-nokia-n810-internet-tablet-launching-soon-367565 Aside from 4g internet, the N810 WiMAX Edition now allows firmware…

Tech News Adrian Covert Apr 1

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]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 29

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). https://gizmodo.com/sprint-looking-to-get-back-with-clearwire-on-wimax-its-350370 Especially since it…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 18

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.…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Jan 9

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Sprint and Clearwire Marriage Official: WiMax Network Branded “Clear”

Acer Aspire One Tested with WiMax

Start Your WiMax Engines With Laptops From Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba

Sprint WiMax Slowing Down Corporations with “Narrow” Certification Pipeline

Acer 14-inch, 16-inch Aspires Are Built for WiMAX

Xohm’s WiMax Coverage Quietly Live and Working in Six More Cities

Xohm Tested Out in Baltimore: Beats EVDO, Unsurprisingly

Sprint’s Xohm WiMax Will Neuter Heavy Downloaders

Sprint XOHM WiMax Quietly Goes Live In Baltimore

Sprint’s Xohm WiMax Service Delayed Again, Possibly

Sprint and Clearwire Promise WiMax Will Be Totally Open, Can Replace Your ISP

WiMax Just Might Make It: Sprint’s WiMax and Clearwire Officially Merge

WiMax Joint Venture: Sprint, Clearwire, Comcast and Time Warner With $$$ from Google and Intel, Maybe Announced Tomorrow

Is WiMax All Washed Up? An Open Letter

Sprint Delays Xohm WiMax Service to ‘Later in the Year’

Sprint Xohm WiMax Test Drive: Just Like Cable

Nokia N810 WiMax Edition Tablet Hands On

WiMax Cellphones Phones From Sprint Later This Year

Intel Dumping $2 Billion Into WiMax

Sprint Exec: WiMax Launch in April, You “Won’t Be Ecstatic” About the Price

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