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Article | 9/08/2011 Clearwire's LTE plan faces high hurdles
WiMax carrier Clearwire's so-far-unfunded plan to adopt LTE faces several obstacles, but the company effectively doesn't have a choice, according to i...
Article | 5/08/2011 Clearwire wants LTE but needs more capital
So Clearwire has confirmed that it's looking to deploy an LTE network alongside its WiMax one, but there's a big catch: The service provider needs mor...
Article | 4/08/2011 Clearwire plans LTE network, seeks $600M
Clearwire plans to deploy an LTE network in addition to its existing WiMax system but estimates it will need to raise about US$600 million to do so.
Article | 4/08/2011 Clearwire to add LTE to its network
WiMax mobile operator Clearwire plans to add equipment to its network that can use LTE-Advanced, the next generation of LTE technology, the company an...
Article | 3/08/2011 Sprint to sell WiMax service wholesale
Sprint Nextel is a wholesale customer of Clearwire's WiMax service but will itself become a wholesale provider of the service to other carriers.
Article | 8/07/2011 Clearwire customer care to move overseas
Customer care calls for WiMax operator Clearwire will go to the Philippines after TeleTech Holdings, the outsourcing company that Clearwire hired last...
Article | 1/07/2011 KDDI offloads traffic on cellular network through Wi-Fi
Japan's KDDI is installing more than 100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots that smartphone users will be connected to automatically for data services, offloading tra...
Article | 10/06/2011 Sprint gives up majority vote at Clearwire
Sprint Nextel has given up its majority voting power at Clearwire to defuse investors' concerns about the danger to Sprint if Clearwire defaulted on i...
Article | 6/05/2011 Q&A: RIM's take on social networking
Although Research in Motion made its name by delivering secure corporate email, it has had to move quickly to adapt to the ever-shifting world of soci...
Article | 5/05/2011 No spectrum sale this year, Clearwire says
WiMax service provider Clearwire posted record subscriber growth of 1.8 million in the first quarter and said it no longer plans to sell radio spectru...
Article | 29/04/2011 Sprint still losing money despite adding 1.1M customers
Sprint added 1.1 million new wireless subscribers last quarter but the company still lost $439 million over the same period.
Article | 8/04/2011 Japanese earthquake shelters getting PCs, WiMax
With a new laptop computer under his arm, Kenji Takemoto marched into the Takasago Day Care Center in Sendai. It's been almost a month since an earthq...
Article | 8/04/2011 Prepaid carrier Locus to resell Clearwire
WiMax carrier Clearwire has added a low-cost prepaid mobile operator, Locus Telecommunications, to the set of partners that offer services over its hi...
Article | 1/04/2011 IEEE approves next WiMax standard
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has approved IEEE 802.16m, the standard for the next generation of WiMax, which may deliver down...
Article | 4/02/2011 Despite LTE hype, Wi-Fi is the real deal
MIAMI -- With all the hype surrounding 4G technologies such as LTE and WiMAX, it's easy to forget just how useful Wi-Fi is in our daily lives.