So over to Japan, where NTT DoCoMo, itself recently the victim of a handset-shaped spanner in the works, claims to have launched 3G services. BT (via Manx Telecom) almost had the world's first working 3G network, but as reported in a previous Round...
Intel has been fleshing out its vision for WiMAX, the 802.16 standard often referred to as Wi-Fi's big sister. In a keynote presentation at this year's 3GSM World Congress event, Intel president and COO Paul Otellini talked about a roadmap where...
Earlier this month, Siemens appointed local handset manufacturer Ningbo Bird as the main distributor of its phones in China, and the two companies also agreed to jointly develop products for domestic and international markets.
But Wi-Fi is slower, and its coverage area is much smaller than WiMax, requiring many "hotspots" to cover a large metropolitan area. Intel and Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE will work together to build wireless broadband networks using WiMax...
W is for WiMax The company has struck deals with the major handset makers - Apple, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson - as well network operators across the globe. In addition to European and US giants such as Vodafone, Telefonica and...
Telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks is ditching its WiMax business to focus on a more popular 4G wireless technology. Sprint, which has already been testing its WiMax network in some places, did not choose Nortel as one of its major vendors to...