3G, implemented 4 years ago, has almost reached its saturation point, and thus the war among major U.S wireless carriers- Verizon, AT&T and Sprint- has begun. 2010 is a turning point in the telecommunication market and companies are trying to take over the 4th generation industry: 4G. Consumers expect a high speed connection between 100Mb /s [...]

Betelecom launched mobile WiMAX in the Belarus capital of Minsk March 31. The company installed 22 base stations that use the 802.16e technology in the 3.5GHz frequency. The services will be offered commercially, with new users getting a USB modem for the life of the contract. The company is also allowing users to test the service [...]

� Samsung and Yota have signed another contract that will help build out a complete WiMax network across Russia. Samsung will supply over 5,000 base stations and Access Control Routers beginning in March 2010. Yota will expand its mobile WiMax network to 15 cities including Sochi, the host of the 2015 Winter Olympic Games. Yota selected Samsung [...]

Delta Telecom has launched a commercial mobile WiMax network in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku and the Absheron Peninsula. It started with 110 base station installations in those locations. The commercial WiMax packages with range in cost, from AZN10 to AZN100. The company is now working to deploy WiMax services throughout other parts of the country, [...]

According to Cellular News, Yota, the Russian WiMax provider, disclosed that it has arrived at the operational breakeven point in only 5 months after the launch of the WiMax network in Moscow and St Petersburg. The deployment in a third Russian city, Ufa, took place in October. Also in October, the company counted 200,000 active subscribers [...]