This Week in WiMax News
International companies looking to India as a potentially large market for everything Wimax. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced its auctioning off air wave space for WiMax and 3G use. Following that announcement, Sony and Micro Star International announced it will release WiMax-enabled laptops in India early in 2010.
Media company Tata Elxsi is monitoring the auction closely because it’s developing mobile video and provide software stack to the telecommunications company.Intel also announced it will prepare all sorts of WiMax-enabled products for release in India once the auction is settled. The company has plans to release cheap laptops.
In other international WiMax news, Verat was awarded radio waves for WiMax use in Serbia & Montenegro. Motorola and Du have started Wimax services on the Dubai Metro and in train stations. Bangla Lion started offering WiMax service in Bangladesh.
In other deployment news, it was announced that Stutler and Airspan were chosen to set up a WiMax network for the Navajo nation in New Mexico. HiBeam also chose Telamon to aid in its deployment of WiMax throughout the Midwest.
Many reports have stated that WiMax sales and services are growing and will continue to grow, but not in the way that other broadband internet grew in the past. WiMax provides wireless services to areas where it wasn’t available in the past. There are also reports stating that WiMax users are increasing and that it’s expanding in markets like Malaysia and Russia. It’s also going to help developing countries like Malaysia and India to improve learning through wireless broadband internet.
WiMax needs to break out of a niche market and some providers are doing just that. Clear is starting to buy ad space online, broadcasting commercials on video sites like Hulu and purchasing air time in markets where they recently launched. Clear has opened retail stores in those same markets to offer their products. Clear recently held launch events in its newest markets.
Top 5 Stories of the Week
1. India auctioning Bandwidth Space
2. Clear hold Launch Parties in Four Markets
3. Navajo Nation starts WiMax setup
4. WiMax launched on Dubai Metro
5. HiBeam chooses Telamon for U.S. WiMax Deployment
Fact/Figure of the Week: In 2009, Motorola has reached two milestones, shipments of its 1 millionth CPE and 10,000th WiMAX access point
Tweet of the Week: dabombdgd: is considering WiMAX. Clear.com has a pretty good deal, but is it worth it? Roadrunner kills them with price/speeds
