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Cornered! 2008: the year of mobile WiMAX, at last!
Cornered! 2008: the year of mobile WiMAX, at last! | 2008: the year of mobile WiMAX, at last! |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 20 December 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 2 The Forum says it will conduct additional product interoperability activities for new Mobile WiMAX profiles and features, such as testing for the planned certification for 3.5GHz and 700MHz profiles and core network certification through Mobile WiMAX PlugFests in 2008. Naturally the organisation was crowing. "This important milestone in our WiMAX Forum certification program culminates years of development of our certification process and signifies the success of the WiMAX ecosystem's progress and market lead relative to alternative mobile broadband technologies such as LTE which are several years behind WiMAX technology," said its president, Ron Resnick. The WiMAX Forum currently estimates that more than 300 operators in over 65 countries have deployed Mobile WiMAX pilots and trials. Leading WiMAX vendor Motorola was also bullish. It announced an update on its progress with the technology and rollouts. "We've seen tremendous progress in the deployment of 802.16e WiMAX technology worldwide this year," said Fred Wright, senior vice president, WiMAX and Cellular Networks, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility. "While we spent the majority of 2007 proving the commercial viability of WiMAX technology, we will see the commercial launch of dozens of WiMAX systems in 2008 with a wide variety of customer premises equipment, PC cards, mobile devices, and innovative applications." |
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