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 …

With impending success and a strong conviction for his company, Ari Zoldan has the telecommunications world on pause. They wait as he and other major companies press play on WiMax’s ultimate launch. Ari Zoldan, President and CEO of Quantum Networks, LLC, a WiMax equipment and service provider, has certainly shaken and rattled the telecommunications wireless world into a query; and he’s just getting started.
Wimax, otherwise known as the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology that provides wireless data in a variety of informative ways, from point-to-point links …

Recessions hurt.
We’ve previously noted that decision-makers at many of the technology industry’s leading corporations seem to have a lot of faith in WiMAX, specifically in Clearwire’s United States venture. The catch is that the market does not share their optimism.
Intel’s losses after acquiring Clearwire now total $1.1 billion to $1.2 billion – significantly more than the previous estimate of $50 million. Meanwhile, Nokia is pulling the plug on WiMAX-enabled mobile devices designed specifically to work with Clearwire’s networks. At present, it’s a sensible strategy for Nokia, because mass sales of …

Now that Sprint’s long-awaited Xohm service has launched in Baltimore to mostly positive reviews, researchers, bloggers, and journalists are beginning to place their bets on the upcoming battle between WiMAX and long term evolution (LTE), its toughest challenger. Researchers at In-Stat have struck the first blow for WiMAX, concluding in a new report that WiMAX is likely to “outpace” LTE over the next few years, though both technologies are still years away from full implementation. In-Stat argues that because LTE will not be ready for at least another year or …

September 29, 2008: That Monday was the fateful day of Sprint-Nextel’s long-awaited WiMAX rollout. Xohm launched commercially in Baltimore to great anticipation in four forms: a $35/month modem plan, a $45/month mobile service for use with a PC ExpressCard, a $65/month “pick 2″ plan, and a $10/day tryout, but it’s really the second option that brings something new to the table. Internet anywhere in a city? No wires? And not even that, but faster than your usual cabled setup too! So needless to say, many have already taken Xohm out …

AT&T’s Apple iPhone and Sprint’s Instinct touch phone is not the only rivalry brewing between these two foremost cellular networks. AT&T has been bullying Sprint for a long time now, trying to prevent the Sprint and Clearwire union from merging both of their assets in order to create a nationwide broadband wireless network.
The only difference is that this time, Sprint is fighting back. Sprint recently filed a response, declaring that “The New Clearwire transaction presents an unparalleled opportunity to accelerate broadband deployment in the United States,” Sprint declared.
Furthermore Sprint has …