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The WiMAX Forum announced the formation of roaming guidelines for WiMAX operators. The industry trade group hopes to lay the groundwork for roaming agreements between WiMAX carriers. They’ve established a new website – www.wimaxroaming.org – to promote the new initiative. The WiMAX forum states there are approximately 400 WiMAX operators worldwide, so the timing is right to initiate a roaming framework. “We are ...

Fairpoint will provide WiMAX service in its Northeast markets using equipment from Nortel and Airspan. Fairpoint’s WiMAX network will operate in the 3.65 GHz spectrum band and will be used to deliver broadband to customers who are outside the reach of broadband from their recently acquired wired networks in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Nortel claims this network is ...

Cox issued a press release announcing its intentions to launch wireless service in 2009, and integrate it into their successful bundling strategy. Cox intends to resell Sprint wireless services initially, and then augment that resale effort with their own 3G services from an ongoing wireless network build out project. Cox also says they are investigating LTE for a future 4G network play. “Our ...

Cablevision announced a major expansion of their mesh Wi-Fi network, Optimum WiFi, which is now operational in many parts of its New York market. Optimum WiFi will deliver symmetrical 1.5 Mbps service throughout Cablevision’s footprint. The expansion includes commercial and high-traffic areas of Nassau County, in areas of Suffolk County, and on the commuter rail platforms and station parking lots across all of Long Island. "We ...

The FCC is seeking comments on its plan to auction AWS-3 spectrum with a mandate that the winner provide free broadband wireless coverage to 95% of the population after 10 years of winning the license. The mandate would require the licensee to set aside at least 25% of their network capacity to provide broadband service of 768K downstream (or better), free of charge. In addition, ...

A stated desire of regulators is to foster competition for broadband. They claim that many of their policies are created to achieve such a desired outcome. Sprint and Clearwire are exploiting this desire with regulators with their most recent regulatory filing. They are positioning WiMAX as the desired “third pipe” into the home - a broadband pipe that will compete with the other ...

AT&T is leveraging their broadband wireless capability with DSL service to provide a converged broadband to go service. Branded as AT&T Net Reach, the new $79.95/month service targets laptop carrying customers with seamless access to Wi-Fi, 3G wireless, and home DSL/Wi-Fi service. Net Reach provides a laptop broadband connection manager that automatically connects with the strongest available broadband service among AT&T's 17,0000 Wi-Fi hotspots, 3G GSM ...