Today Sprint is launching WiMax in Portland, Las Vegas and Atlanta. Customers in these areas are able to purchase laptop dongles to connect to the network. Sprint’s WiMax services are already available in Baltimore. These cities are four of the nine in which Sprint will launch WiMax by the end of 2009. Download speeds can reach over 10 [...]

Yesterday, Saudi Arabian telecom company Etihad Atheeb launched its GO WiMax service in western Saudi city Al-Medina. This expands Etihad Atheeb’s current Saudi Arabia launch with Motorola. “Broadband internet services ‘WiMAX’ is an ideal solution that meets the needs for the people in Al Medina, GO WiMAX requires no waiting period or a land line, And [...]

Last week Australian-based Adam Internet announced that it will begin rolling out WiMax in Adelaide’s metropolitan area over the next 15 months. Australian telecom news site Commsday is reporting that Alvarion will be providing fixed WiMax deployment for the project. “We chose the Alvarion product because they have over five deployments where they’ve done this over [...]

In a recent interview with WiMax.com, Siavash Alamouti, the CTO of Intel’s Mobile Wireless Group, expressed his views about mobile internet-related topics including mobile WiMax. Alamouti recognizes that consumers want decent mobile internet access, but companies are not providing it. Instead they are focusing on voice and low data rate communications such as texting, SMS and [...]

Australian-based Adam Internet will rollout WiMax in Adelaide’s metropolitan area. The project, dubbed “AdamMax,” will be funded by South Australian and Federal Governments. AdamMax’s first connection is expected to be working in October. The entire rollout is expected to take place over the course of 15 months. “AdamMax will effectively blanket metropolitan Adelaide, lighting up blackspot areas [...]