Exclusive: Marc Brachman on CLEAR Atlanta - June 26, 2009 (Wimax News)

We can’t get enough of Clearwire in Atlanta.  We want to know how it works, who’s liking it, and who’s not.  So we interviewed Marc Brachman of JLM Partners–Clearwire’s PR agency–who serves as the firm’s General Manager for Georgia.  Brachman talks to us about the prospects, price, and popularity of CLEAR Atlanta.

Comcast Now Offers 4G in Portland - June 30, 2009 (Wimax News)
Comcast now offers 3G and 4G wireless Internet services in Portland, Oregon, in addition to its …

Exclusive Interview with WiMAX Analyst Jeff Kagan about Clear Atlanta - June 22, 2009 (Wimax News)
WiMAX is spreading fast in Atlanta as Clearwire makes the city a testing ground for the latest broadband technology.  Residents of Atlanta now have access to the highest Internet speeds and coverage in America.  Here in New York City, Wimax News inteviewed Jeff Kagan, a respected Atlanta-based telecom analyst, to give us his expert opinion and perspective on Clearwire’s WiMAX service in Atlanta.
Alvarion to Deploy a Nationwide Mobile WiMAX Network in Italy With Aria …

Clear WiMax Services Now in Las Vegas -June 2, 2009 (Wimax News). Clearwire LLC is now selling WiMax services in Las Vegas ahead of an official launch this summer. The coverage maps now available on Clear.com are extensive and indicate that most of the metro Las Vegas area has been covered. Marketing activities will be announced as part of the full commercial launch but Clear-Internet.com is already selling Clear’s home and mobile wimax package.

Latest WiMAX Forum Events Show Global Congress was a Success - June 10, 2009 (Wimax News). “The …

Alvarion wins WiMax deal in Catalonia, Spain (Wimax News). Alvarion announced today it was selected by Iberbanda, Spain’s leading WiMAX carrier partially owned by Telefonica, to expand the current WiMAX network at 3.5GHz in Catalonia. The expansion results from a tender won by Iberbanda to supply WiMAX services to the Government of Catalonia.

Juniper Research : WiMAX to Generate $15billion by 2014 (Wimax News). Mobile WiMAX  networks are being rolled out more slowly than expected, meaning that service revenues will grow more slowly than forecast a year ago, a new study …

Ray Bell, the entrepreneur, former Cisco networking executive and founder of San Francisco smart meter software company Grid Net is clearly betting on WiMax as the best wireless answer to building out the smart grid.
The bottomline is to replace a passive, analog electricity delivery system with one that is two-way and aware of what is happening to it at any moment. In other words, a smart grid. There are 1.4 billion of these meters in the world but many are the electromechanical type that hasn’t changed since 1888. Bell …

This weekend Daryl Schoolar, a Senior Analyst with the market research firm In-Stat who has been covering all topics about broadband since 2000, wrote an interesting article on GiGaom unleashing WiMax’s business perspective in the upcoming months and years, also disputing  Nokia’s recent comparison of WiMax with Betamax.
“…I believe there is a market for WiMAX. WiMAX’s problem comes from that fact when people talk about it, they do so within the context of the cellular technologies like LTE — but WiMAX is suited to a different use case altogether. Unlike …