The $789 economic stimulus bill could be a boon for WiMax, the wireless broadband and next-generation cell phone technology that is supported by some big tech giants. Sean Maloney, executive vice ...

BARCELONA--The industry is working fast to offer high-speed data connection to portal devices, but the market has split into two camps: one stands by wireless standards such as WiMax and Wi-Fi, while ...

The tech industry is getting overheated about the long-range broadband access technology WiMax, according to one Nokia exec. Markku Hollström, head of WiMax business programme at Nokia, said the ...

[Editor’s Note: Back in April, venture capitalist Paul Grim painted a somewhat bleak picture of the future of mobile WiMax networks, pointing to Sprint and Clearwire’s inability to strike a deal as ...

Last week, when we discussed how WiMAX could be used to offer wireless broadband, we got several comments and questions back about the technology. Today, we’d like to answer some of our readers’ ...

Sprint has a pretty decent headstart in the next-generation 4G mobile data race, although the company’s decision to go with the WiMAX standard over the LTE standard, which many people consider to be a ...

With the launch of Sprint’s WiMax wireless broadband data service, called Xohm (pronounced “zome”) in Baltimore in early October, Sprint was able to rightly claim it is the first carrier to offer the ...

It's a term (and a technology) that has been bandied about for around four years now, but after waiting far too long for the next next best thing, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ...

WiMax-capable prototypes from several vendors were a big part of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week, but the faster wireless networking did not figure into the stylishly thin ...

A machine gunner takes aim on a Fort Dix training range. The base is implementing a wireless network that may connect ranges to the base network as early as this fall. Fort Dix wirelessly reaches out ...

The Sprint WiMax service operates as fast as 4Mbps. One early WiMax adopter says Xohm is delivering good connection speeds: “When it first started I was getting about 2.1Mbps, but yesterday we were ...