Sprint will outsource the management for its US CDMA network to Ericsson and will keep WiMAX management internal, the company’s press release recently announced.  In a seven-year agreement titled Network Advantage, Sprint hopes to increase the effectiveness of its wireless and wireline network. “No other US-based carrier has followed through on the business-enhancing vision inherent [...]

Liberty University is set to bring WiMAX to its hometown, Lynchburg, VA.  By partnering with the Virginia School of the Arts, also a native of Lynchburg, Liberty University has created the Lynchburg Educational Broadband Joint Venture.  This organization will enable major communications companies to bid on leasing license channels in order to provide WiMAX to [...]

The WiMAX Network construction of Clearwire Corporation may bring opportunities to Chinese telecoms equipment providers Huawei Technologies and ZTE for their expansion in the US, according to Will Kong, research analyst at iSuppli . Both ZTE and Huawei have small market shares compared to their counterparts, but they are trying to stake a sizeable claim [...]

During the CTIA 2009 in Las Vegas, Samsung Mobile announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Mondi™, a mobile WiMAX device designed for use with the Clear mobile WiMAX service from Clearwire. Originally presented at the Mobile World Congress ‘09, The Samsung Mondi SWD-M100 includes the following key features : MS Office, WiFi, BT 2.1, GPS, [...]

A year after Sprint Nextel merged its WiMAX business with ClearWire, Computer Word reported Sprint Nextel will be the first to kick off a tri-mode handset- the first stand alone WiMAX Cell Phone. According to Scott Lane, director of marketing and sales for Sprint’s 4G unit, The phone would function in three wireless modes. Including [...]