Mobile broadband technologies, most notably WiMax, will provide the challenge to Telekom Malaysia Berhad 's dominance of the Malaysian Internet access services market, according to a report from Pyramid Research.

wi-tribe Pakistan, a consumer wireless broadband provider backed by Qatar Telecom (Qtel) Group, has begun to offer commerciaol WiMAX services in Pakistan according to and article in Qatar's The Peninsula. The WiMAX service will initially be launched in Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, and Rawalpindi.

Taiwan-based WiMAX players are worried about the lag in service introductions between the northern and southern Taiwan regions will become an obstacle to a major take-off in the adoption of WiMAX services, according to market sources.

Huawei recently announced that the DBS3900 WiMAX base sation, which will be powered by 4T4R function, will be publicly available starting on July 15, 2009.  The DBS3900 supports multiple transmission codes, such as FE and GE optical cables, xDSL, Passive Optical Network (PON), microwave, and satellites.  The device  can connect directly to transmission equipment.

As the eternally dominant player in the CPU space, Intel's main task historically has been to maintain its market dominance and fight the challenge of much smaller competitors like AMD in the server, desktop and notebook markets.

Acer chairman JT Wang has commented that the company is not concerned about the possible entrance of Nokia in the netbook market, noting that PC vendors will have the advantage when competing for telecom providers' orders.

Taiwan-based network equipment makers plan to compete for ODM orders from retail channels in Japan as Japan-based UQ Communications will start operating WiMAX services in July and allow subscribers to procure CPE (customer premise equipment) products at retail stores, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

Intel and Nokia on June 23 announced a long-term relationship to develop a new class of Intel architecture-based mobile computing device and chipset architectures which will combine computers with high-bandwidth mobile broadband communications and Internet connectivity.

The Open Patent Alliance (OPA), a group dedicated to offering intellectual property rights (IPR) solutions that support the development and widespread adoption of WiMAX, has announced a call for patents, with the intention of creating a patent pool of essential WiMAX patents. The OPA has selected Via Licensing Corporation to facilitate the formation and administration of the pool on behalf of the OPA.

ZTE says that it has won a WiMAX contract from Saudi Arabia based Etihad Atheeb Telecom (Atheeb) to construct a high-speed WiMAX network covering five major cities in Saudi Arabia, including Dammam and Khobar. In addition to about 300 WiMAX base stations, ZTE will also supply related equipment including IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystems)and MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching).

Intel Labs showed off 45 research projects at its research day event yesterday - projects that ran the gamut from energy efficiency to digital living room applications. We've already written about the linked virtual worlds for scientists and the Dispute Finder plug-in that highlights disputed facts in stories. Here's a handful of other interesting projects the company showed off.

Alvarion announced this week that it had been chosen by US broadband provider Open Range Communications, Inc. to build a 4G wireless network covering 17 states, 546 rural communities, and reaching up to 6 million people.  Open Range will implement the $100 million deal over a span of five years.

Israel-based WiMAX solutions provider Alvarion has won a project from US-based Open Range Communications for deployment of WiMAX mobile communication systems in 546 rural communities across 17 states, with the project to be funded by the federal agency Rural Utilities Service.

Taiwan-based WiMAX licensee Global Mobile on June 16 signed with Clearwire for cooperation to set up an IOT (interoperability testing) network at the Hsinchu Science Park in northern Taiwan, with a mobile plugfest testing service scheduled to begin at the end of July, according to the company.

Building on worldwide 4G WiMAX technology momentum, Beceem Communications, GCT Semiconductor, Sequans Communications and UQ Communications have joined the Open Patent Alliance (OPA).

Tatung Company, the parent company of WiMAX operator Tatung InfoComm, has spent NT$1.4 billion (US$42.6 million) to take up the 140,000 new shares released by Tatung InfoComm, boosting the WiMAX operator's capital from NT$1.1 billion to NT$2.5 billion, according to a statement released by Tatung.

Alvarion and eASPNet have together announced the building of a new mobile WiMAX network by Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) in the northeastern county of Yilan for the local government under the M-Taiwan program. The network built using Alvarion's 4Motion mobile WiMAX solution will operate at 2.5 GHz frequency band.

A spokesperson for Huawei Technologies disclosed that the Chinese networking and telecommunications equipment supplier would be likely to bid for stakes in three plants of Indian Telephone Industries Ltd. (ITI), quoting Hindu Business Line on June 9.

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ( "Huawei" ), a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, today announced the launch of the world' s first commercial WiMAX distributed base station ( DBS ) with 4T4R ( four transmitters and four receivers ) features.

Intel announced its plans to invest US$43 million in a Tokyo-based WiMAX operator, UQ Communications, Inc., that will launch the world's fastest WiMAX service this coming July.  Together, Intel and UQ Communications will develop "UQ WiMAX", which will offer consumers advanced mobile Internet broadband use following the free WiMAX service UQ has provided since February 26, 2009.

Intel Corp. said late Sunday that its global-investment arm, Intel Capital, has invested about 4.15 billion yen ($43 million) in UQ Communications, a Tokyo provider of WiMax broadband mobile services.

MediaTek has announced three second-generation IEEE 802.16e WiMAX chips, the MT7110 series, which is claims are fully compliant with, and provide more features and performance than WiMAX Forum Wave2 specifications.

­China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has denied reports that it was planning to spend RMB 100 billion (US$14.5 billion) on building a WiMAX network in 30 cities. The reports came out last week following comments by Paul Lin, general director of the Information and Communications Research Laboratories at the Industrial Technology Research Institute.

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute signed a letter of intent with mainland China's Datang Telecom Technology Co. Ltd. June 4 to construct a third-generation mobile communication test network in Taiwan.

WiMAX is going green.
Space Data, a wireless service provider to commercial and government users in underserved ares, announced today that it will offer its 930 MHz licensed spectrum for smart grid communications.   Together with Full Spectrum's FullMAX Broadband Wireless system, Space Data plans to greatly facilitate the use of smart grids across the United States.  FullMAX is the first Sub 1 GHz, end-to-end wireless system based on the Mobile WiMAX standard.  This partnership will provide utilities with a private wide-area mission critical communications network for real time remote command and control of electric utility smart grid devices.

Tatung Company and Arkados will be demonstrating products that combine HomePlug powerline communications and WiMAX technologies at Computex 2009 in Taiwan this week. The products will include fully connected solutions that bridge Smart Energy, Internet connectivity and connected consumer electronics.  

The challenge for any new wireless technology is gaining sufficient coverage to support travelling users, and so roaming is essential. At the WiMAX Forum congress this week in Amsterdam, the technology took a step forward in this respect, with 14 companies linking for interoperability and roaming trials. Predictably, one of these was Clearwire, whose president, international Barry West - possibly WiMAX' greatest evangelist - was discussing his new role in helping the technology to expand worldwide, saying he believed even China was not a closed door.

Taiwan-based WiMAX licensees are showcasing an array of WiMAX CPE (customer premise equipment) products at the ongoing Computex 2009, including a WiMAX-enabled robot, the RoLA, displayed by Vmax Telecom, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

WiMAX services have recently been made available on Taipei's MRT, allowing the public to try out the world's first mobile broadband wireless access network on a rapid transit system, reported Taiwan News.

China is ready to release orders for WiMAX equipment and CPE products as its State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) is set to kick off construction of WiMAX networks starting in 30 cities, according to Paul Lin, vice president and general director of the Taiwan government-backed Information and Communications Research Laboratories (ICL) under the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

Mainland China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) will come out with initiatives to provide WiMAX business opportunities worth 100 billion Chinese yuan (US$14.64 billion), Paul Lin, general director of the Information and Communications Research Laboratories at the Industrial Technology Research Institute, said June 1.

The Wimax Forum announced that fourteen companies are participating in its commercial Wimax interoperability and roaming trials. These operators, device manufacturers, equipment vendors and clearinghouses include Aicent, Alvarion, Bridgewater Systems, Cisco, Clearwire, Comfone, DigitalBridge Communications, Intel, iPass, Juniper Networks, Mach, Motorola, Syniverse and Transaction Network Services.

The latest generation of high transmission wireless telecommunications, is scheduled to be launched soon and MSI is ready with its aesthetically pleasing and popular Wind U120 Series and MSI X-Slim. In addition to being equipped for WiMAX, these lean, mean machines incorporate Intel's CULV ultra-low power platform. They will be displayed in the WiMAX area of Taipei Computex which opens its doors on June 2. Furthermore, the diminutive Wind U120 will make its debut on the newly opened Neihu-Muzha Line of the Taipei MRT, allowing the public the opportunity to experience WiMAX first hand while riding the MRT.

The WiMAX industry is bound to be a money-making business, and Taiwan is set to become one of the leading members of the global communications industry given the solid foundation it has built up in the WiMAX segment, according to Acer chairman JT Wang, who also serves as chairman of the Taipei Computer Association (TCA).

Comsys Communication & Signal Processing Ltd and Rohde & Schwarz today announced that they have jointly developed a customized test solution for RF calibration offering customers the most cost-effective test solution for RF testing, calibration and signal testing in devices incorporating Comsys Mobile's ComMAX^TM CM1125 mobile WiMAX/GSM-EDGE modules. 

On WiMAX Taipei Metro, passengers can experience real-time video, on-the-stop news, traffic updates, public service announcements and see the animal stars from Taipei Zoo.  All this convenience is now in one place through the ease of the WiMAX network. Special highlights include the 21st Summer Deaflympics Taipei 2009 and 2010 Taipei International Flora Expo events. Traveling on WiMAX Taipei Metro provides the latest updates and information.

WiMAX has become the main theme of COMPUTEX TAIPEI since 2008. This year, we take WiMAX on the Move as our slogan. Taiwan's WiMAX industry will take the ICT industry to new heights.

Sequans Communications, the world's leading WiMAX chipmaker, has introduced the SQN1220, the second chip in its new generation series of 65nm Mobile WiMAX system-on-chip (SOC) solutions. The new chip features a high level of processing power as needed to support combination voice and data applications and targets manufacturers of voice/data CPE and gateways with a solution that eliminates the need for an external CPU or DSP.  The first chip in Sequans 65nm series, the SQN1210, introduced three months ago, targets mobile applications.  Both chips integrate baseband and triple band RF in a single 65nm die in an industry-first achievement that delivers unprecedented high performance, small size, and low cost.

Sequans Communications, the world's leading WiMAX chipmaker, announced today that it has shipped its one millionth chip.  Sequans chips are present in virtually all global WiMAX deployments and powering the world's most important WiMAX networks.

MediaTek, a worldwide leader in wireless and consumer electronics SoCs today announces three second generation IEEE 802.16e WiMAX chips. MT7110 series are fully compliant with, and provide more features and performance than WiMAX Forum Wave2 specifications. These chips are intended to revolutionalize the market and take the industry to the next level of mass market adoption.

The WiMAX Forum^® today announced the addition of Cisco as a new member of its board of directors. Sai Subramanian, director of marketing for the broadband wireless business unit of Cisco, will serve as Cisco's representative on the WiMAX Forum board. Last week, the WiMAX Forum also announced that it had added Tata Communications' COO Prateek Pashine to its board.

Intel offered a sneak peek Monday afternoon at some news it plans to announce today at the Computex show in Taiwan. The company said it will introduce three new Intel Core 2 Duo processors, a new ultra low voltage Pentium processor and a new mobile chipset.

SkyCross, a global antenna solutions company, is providing award-winning iMAT® antennas to TECOM Co., Ltd. (Tecom), a leading manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, for its latest WiMAX USB dongles. VMAX, a WiMAX operator and 2.5 GHz license holder in Taiwan, will offer the USB dongles for its trial network in June and its full commercial launch in Q3 of this year.

Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: IFDG) announced today that it has opened up a branch office in Taipei, Taiwan to better facilitate and coordinate its relationships with the Taiwan high technology industry and with the Institute for Information Industry (III) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

Comsys Communication & Signal Processing Ltd, fabless semiconductor vendor specializing in multimode communication processors for mobile devices, and WiNetworks Ltd, leader in the development of WiMAX 802.16e Wave 2 (MIMO) technologies, have announced today that following completion of IOT between Comsys Mobile's ComMAX CM1125 multimode mobile WiMAX/GSM-EDGE communication processor and WiNetworks Compact and Pico WiMAX base station, the companies will be cooperating on demos at WiMAX Taipei and WiMAX Forum Global Congress Amsterdam opening June 2.

Comsys Communication & Signal Processing Ltd, a leading fabless semiconductor vendor specializing in advanced integrated multimode communication processors for mobile devices, and WiNetworks Ltd, a pioneer and leader in the development and integration of WiMAX 802.16e Wave 2 (MIMO) technologies, have announced today that following completion of IOT between Comsys Mobile's ComMAX CM1125 multimode mobile WiMAX/GSM-EDGE baseband processor and WiNetworks Compact and Pico WiMAX base station, the companies will be cooperating on demos at WiMAX Taipei and WiMAX Forum Global Congress Amsterdam, both beginning on June 2.

­Shipments of the Taiwanese WiMAX CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) industry reached approximately 264,000 units in the first quarter of 2009, roughly maintaining the shipment level of the previous quarter, reports the Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC).

According to research by the Taipei-based Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC), shipment volumes of Taiwan's WiMAX CPE industry reached approximately 264,000 units in the first quarter of 2009, roughly maintaining the shipment level of the previous quarter. In the first quarter, 16e products were mainstream in the industry's shipments, mainly due to their product compatibility and new product tenders in 2009. The industry's shipment volume is expected to reach 413,000 units in the second quarter, and 485,000 units in the third quarter of 2009.

With giant companies like GE and Intel, and startups like Grid Net, testing out how wireless technology WiMAX can be used to build out the smart grid, it was just a matter of time before the companies that make WiMAX network gear started moving in that direction, too. Last week in an interview with us, Ashish Sharma, vice president of corporate market development for one of the leading WiMAX network gear makers, Alvarion, told us that his company has done a couple of smart meter pilot projects using Alvarion's WiMAX gear to collect energy data.

While wireless carriers continue to blanket the U.S. in 3G wireless coverage, a pioneering program in a remote region of Northern Thailand is deploying 4G wireless to deliver broadband to schools and villages.

Major players including General Electric and Intel are testing WiMAX as a smart grid communications platform.  Start-up companies like Grid Net are using it as well.  Now Alvarion has become a smart grid technology developer.  It is a natural move for the WiMAX networking gear manufacturer.

Worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) customer premises equipment (CPE) shipments by local companies are expected to reach 413,000 units in the second quarter and 485,000 units in the third quarter, up from the first quarter's 264,000 units, a Taipei-based research institute said on Friday, citing rush orders and higher demand.

Taiwan-based network equipment suppliers are expected to see their shipments of WiMAX CPE products grow substantially in the second and third quarters of 2009 due to strong demand from emerging markets as well as the launch of commercial WiMAX services by a number of operators worldwide, including Japan's UQ Communications and Malaysia's Packet One Networks, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) cited data from Taiwan's Market Intelligence Center (MIC) as indicating.

­There is a dispute amongst Taiwan's mobile network operators over the fate of the existing GSM licenses which are due to expire in 2012. The incumbent holders want them renewed, while the 3G and WiMAX license holders want the licenses terminated and the radio spectrum refarmed to all the companies.

The Open Patent Alliance, set up last year to create an IPR framework for WiMAX, will publish its recommended tools, favouring a patent pool approach, "imminently", and hopes to create a blueprint for the whole 4G world.

One big-ticket exercise of the new government in the next two months could be auctions of spectrum for 3G and broadband wireless access (BWA). The exercise could fetch the government at least Rs 30,000 crore and help it narrow the widening fiscal deficit.

MANAMA: Bahrain-based Menatelecom has recently broadened its reach in the kingdom as it has witnessed great success with its subscriber base exceeding expectations since it was launched over five months ago.

Motorola's networks division is working to clarify comments from co-CEO Greg Brown during Motorola's first-quarter conference call that indicated the vendor would reduce its investments in WiMAX and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology as it looks to cut costs.

Last weekend, I had the chance to take part in an offsite press event organized by Smart Communications, the topdog in the mobile telecom space here in the Philippines. I was surprised to hear that they, too, have plans to roll out WiMax, as its rival Globe Telecom had done recently.

Network equipment maker Gemtek Technology expects its revenues to grow more robustly in the second half of 2009 thanks to increasing shipments of IP set-top boxes (STBs), WiMAX devices, and integrated WLAN/WiMAX modules, according to company managing director Kevin Yang.

Acer has become a member of the WiMAX Open Patent Alliance (OPA), making it the first among the leading branded PC vendors to join the OPA. Acer's move will help advance the development of the WiMAX industry, according to market sources.

According to Nigerian online newspaper The Guardian, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has cleared four companies to receive spectrum in the 2.3GHz frequency range, commonly used to deploy WiMAX services. Local telecoms companies Mobitel Limited, Galaxy Wireless and Spectranet Limited, plus a fourth, undisclosed company met the deadline to individually pay the licence fee of NGN1.368 billion (USD 9.36 million) for one slot of 20MHz each.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has turned Kabul, Afghanistan, into a high-speed city thanks to a new WiMAX deployment. Take that, Baltimore and Portland, Ore. (the two U.S. cities where WiMAX is available).

Japanese WiMAX start-up UQ Communications has selected NEC Corp to supply it with 802.16e base stations in the country. NEC did not disclose the value of the deal, nor the number of base stations it is deploying in UQ's network; however, the deal is a major boost for the Japanese vendor's recently developed PasoWings BS202 mobile WiMAX base station product.

Islamabad: Pakistan is safe for investment and its growth in telecom is highly impressive, a world's leading telecom solutions provider said on Thursday.

Taiwan-based network equipment makers such as Gemtek Technology, Arcadyan Technology and Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), are expected to benefit from the launch of more notebooks with built-in WiMAX modules by brand vendors including Acer, Asustek Computer, Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP), according to sources within Taiwan's network equipment industry.

Tramzeo Wireless Technologies has announced that it is partnering with Teknologi Riset Global (TRG) Research Center, an affiliate company of the Indonesian Tower group, to supply WiMAX  subscriber units starting next month, to Indonesia, in a deal that is initially worth $840,000. 

Taiwan's Legislative Yuan is seeking amendments to current telecommunications law that will restrict the number of antennas installed in a base station - a move that will make it more difficult for Taiwan's WiMAX licensees to set up their WiMAX base stations, according to market watchers in Taiwan.

Taiwan-based carrier First International Telecom (Fitel) is at risk of losing its WiMAX license as the company may not be able to inaugurate its WiMAX services before a deadline set on March 31, 2010, according to market sources.

"Things are not off to a great start for Alcatel-Lucent," RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Sue wrote after the vendor's first-quarter earnings report today. "Challenged segments remain carrier and enterprise, although there were some bright spots in IP and WCDMA. Application software grew in the mid-single-digit rate (at constant currency), while services continue to chug along, growing in the high teens. North America saw the biggest rate of revenue decline, down 28% year over year."

To many, wireless standards are an important part of creating networks that can easily communicate and be built on the cheap. To others, it's more like a religion. Take Ray Bell, the entrepreneur, former Cisco networking exec and, most recently, founder of San Francisco smart meter software company Grid Net. To Bell, the clear answer to building out the smart grid rests with the wireless standard WiMAX - a nascent, high-speed wireless technology that has morphed into an alternative wireless option for cell phone companies' next-generation networks. As Bell, with the conviction of both a lifelong network engineer and the founder of multiple startups, put it to me: "Why would the smart grid not use WiMAX?"

Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), one of the three largest operators of mobile communication service in Taiwan, on April 29 signed with China Mobile Communications, the largest mobile telecom carrier in China, for a strategic alliance and the latter's investment in FET for a 12% stake.

The Institute for Information Industry Taiwan and the Industrial Technology Research Institute, both of which are Taiwan quasi-government Research & Development organizations under the Ministry of Economic Affairs office, today announced an agreement with Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:IFDG) to distribute the World's smallest EPC Gen 2 Class 1 Passive Reader Module, which is the first of its kind in the industry.

China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL) has agreed to acquire a 12 percent holding in Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. Ltd. , Taiwan's third-largest operator, through a new share issue valued at NT$17.77 billion ($530 million) in total or NT$40.00 ($1.2) per share.

The need of the hour is to get data from one point to another as fast as possible. The availability of internet on the move has become necessity for many. The global WiMAX network has been growing significantly over the past years, with the advancements in telecommunication technology. According to a latest report published by WiMAX Forum, there have 13 new WiMAX network deployments in the month of April.

Green Packet Berhad, a leading developer of next generation mobile broadband and networking solutions, sealed an agreement with Taiwan-based Tatung Infocomm Company to enhance the connectivity capabilities of Tatung's wireless broadband services.

COMSTAR - United TeleSystems" JSC ("Comstar" or "the Group") (LSE. CMST), the largest integrated telecommunications provider in Moscow and 69 Russian cities, today announced that the test phase of its mobile WiMAX network project has been completed, and the network will be fully launched from May 1, 2009.

Amman, Jordan, 04/28/2009 - Kulacom Jordan, (MetroBeam Wireless Telecommunications Company), the first Jordanian integrated communications operator, announced the launch of the very first wireless end-to-end Wave II network in the world.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading provider of Mobile WiMAX technology, today unveiled its latest Mobile WiMAX indoor solution as well as various system equipments and devices at WiMAX Forum Congress Asia 2009, Singapore, continuing active campaign to expand Mobile WiMAX market in Asia.

The price of WiMax CPEs (customer premise equipment) must fall to a cost-effective level for operators before the masses in rural areas of the Philippines can access the wireless broadband standard.

Accton Wireless Broadband Corp. today announced that the company has joined the Alcatel-Lucent Seal of Interoperability Acceptance for Commercial Services (SIACS) program. Under the Alcatel-Lucent SIACS, the company makes available to service providers a range of key performance indicator data, giving complete visibility into what the devices can do through a more than 180 test items for completing the highest level of interoperability testing.

The number of Android mobile phones launched this year seems to be growing exponentially, with more and more handset makers and wireless operators intent on adopting the platform, which is now sported on two devices coming from the Taiwanese company HTC, the Dream (the first Android phone) and Magic (just made available with Vodafone Spain), and which will also come on a handset from Samsung, the I7500.

The panic induced by the financial crisis will hopefully see signs of mitigation in the second half of 2009, Acer Chairman Wang Jen-tang pointed out yesterday at a WiMAX event in Penghu sponsored by Tatung Co.

The Taiwan government-operated National Development Fund and Intel may jointly announce the formation of a long-awaited WiMAX joint venture during or around Computex Taipei in June, according to market sources.

Bridgewater Systems, the mobile personalization company, today announced that Tatung Infocomm, 
a provider of mobile WiMAX services in Taiwan, is deploying the Bridgewater(R) Service Controller 

and Policy Controller, both anchored by Bridgewater's Subscriber Data Broker(TM), to deliver high 

speed mobile Internet services to consumers and enterprises.

MSI's X-Slim X340 notebook is listed on MSI's website as "coming soon"; it is based on the new Intel Consumer Ultra Low Voltage (CULV) platform. CULV notebooks represent the middle ground between netbooks and higher-priced ultraportables. The X340's specifications include a 13.4" 16:9 widescreen display with LED backlighting, Intel Core 2 Solo processor (1.4GHz), Windows Vista Home Premium, and an HDMI port. Other specifications include 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive. Some models are expected to come with WiMAX built-in.

Tatung InfoComm has announced that it will become the first operator to formally launch mobile WiMAX services in Taiwan, commencing operations on the Penghu islands on 27 April 2009. On Monday Tatung launched an experimental WiMAX network covering Tatung University in the capital Taipei, aimed at fostering research into wireless broadband technologies. Tatung plans to expand coverage to Kaohsiung County, Pingdong County and Hualien County in the second half of 2009.

Taipei, April 24 (CNA) Taiwan WiMAX licensee Global Mobile Corp. announced Friday it has signed a cooperative agreement with U.S.-based Clearwire Corp. to strengthen the WiMAX network it is preparing to install in the Hsinchu area in northern Taiwan.

Taiwan-based IT company Tatung has stepped into the development of Android-based smartphones, although the company has yet to finalize its product roadmap, according to company chairman WS Lin.

Intel currently has no plans to step into the development of chipset solutions for WiMAX CPE (customer premise equipment) products, but will focus on solutions for WiMAX modules used in notebooks and netbooks, Lil Mohan, managing director of Intel's WiMAX program, said during a recent 4G mobile technology forum held in Taipei.

US-based WiMAX operator Clearwire is expected to sign cooperation pacts with two Taiwan WiMAX licensees, Vastar Cable TV System and Global Mobile, according to market sources in Taiwan. Details of the respective cooperation agreements are not yet available.

April 24, 2009, Clearwire International, LLC and Vee Telecom & Multimedia Co., Ltd. is proceeding the Non-Binding Memorandum of Understanding between two parties' alliance. This alliance is intended to be an expression of the mutual confirmed interest of the Parties in pursuing a transaction for the provision of consulting services. Clearwire will help Vee Telecom becomes an outstanding WiMAX provider in Taiwan.

Far EasTone Telecommunications Co, the nation's third-largest telecoms service provider, yesterday said it would offer high-speed WiMAX for free during a pilot run in central Taiwan starting next month.

MSI today announces U120 Series in Wind Netbook. The first two models in U120 Series are U120 and U120H. Though major notebook branders around the world have recently launched a blizzard of "high-end" 10" sub-notebooks, MSI, the creator of the 10" notebook genre, is ready. Its newest innovation is the U120 Series slated for release in early December.

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Tatung University today announced the launch of Taiwan's first WiMAX 16e campus network to foster research and innovations in wireless broadband technologies. The University's Center of WiMAX Wireless Broadband Technology features Alcatel-Lucent's advanced, world-leading WiMAX solutions. Tatung University's community of professors and students (more than 4000 people) can utilize the new WiMAX 16e network to delve deeper into wireless technology research, while WiMAX developers can also benefit from Tatung University's research outcome for compatible hardware and innovative software. Alcatel-Lucent today signed a memorandum of cooperation with Tatung University to strengthen the telecommunication research and development of innovative WiMAX application by coordinating resources from both parties, marking it an important milestone in the WiMAX industry in Taiwan.

Americans participating in the discussion about a national broadband plan can look to the North for an example. In Canada, the country's largest cable and wireless operator, Rogers Communications, partnered with the nation's largest phone company, Bell Canada, to create a Canada-wide wireless broadband network.

Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecom (FET) has awarded Motorola additional contracts to expand its WiMAX network in Taichung, Taiwan. The projects will boost network performance and provide new management features, preparing FET for the commercial launch of mobile broadband services by the end of 2009.

Penghu County is expected to lead off WiMAX service in Taiwan on April 27, 2009, Chinese-language Economic Daily News reported. The WiMAX network in Penghu County is deployed and run by Tatung Telecom, which has announced a promotional tariff plan of NT$499 (US$14.7; US$1=NT$33.9) per month with 30-hour gratuitous connection.

­Worldwide, approximately 1.45 million BWA/WiMAX subscribers were added during 2008, while the WCDMA subscriber base increased by more than 90 million. The average quarter-over-quarter subscriber growth rate in 2008 was 21.5%, according to the 7th issue of the 4GCounts Quarterly Report from Maravedis.

An article in the French newspaper, Le Monde, asks whether WiMAX is on its deathbed in France. It cites data from ARCEP, the French telecoms regulator, which shows that out of the 3562 locations that should have been covered with WiMAX service by 30 June 2008, only 657 were connected as of 31 December 2008. Moreover, Bolloré Télécom, the largest WiMAX provider, has only completed 13% of its planned installations; its competitor, Altitude, has finished only 15%.

While considering organizational restructuring, Alcatel-Lucent, a globally leading supplier of network and communication devices, is likely to outsource the production of high-end CPE (customer premise equipment) to Taiwanese makers in the future, according to industry sources.

Gigabyte has had their T1028 TouchNote tablet/netbook hybrid waiting in the wings for a few weeks since it was first seen back at CeBIT and has now landed with the FCC and shows up officially on the companies' website.

For all those who do not know anything about Asus, this will make it clear. WiMax has been quite impressive. There has been news that the ClearWire had to delay the expansion if an arrangement of $2 billion is not made, but the ASUS that is WiMax capable came out with the Eee PC that has finally managed to turn the tables. Apart from the nuvifone offerings that the laptop PC contains, ASUS has also shown off a lot of other net books at the Mobile World Congress that held in Barcelona. Even there, the display happened only through WiMax.

ASTRI said that its ASN-GW offers end-to-end IP connectivity between WiMAX mobile subscriber and IP core service networks, helping mobile users enjoy various service applications, such as Web browsing, file transfer and media streaming.

Taiwan WiMAX licensee Global Mobile will purchase 100 WiMAX base stations from Nokia Siemens Networks, with plans to roll out of its WiMAX network infrastructure in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan in May, according to company sources.

In the awake of financial troubles started in 2008 had swept across the globe like tsunami, pushing almost every economy in every country into its knees, greatly affected many people around the world become very constraint when it's come to buy something and holding on to what they have to survive. Mr. J.T.Wang, the chairman of Taipei Computer Association (TCA) is aware of with the current situation and deeply concern so initiated two important missions for TCA to accomplish: Mission to promote WiMAX Industry and Mission to make COMPUTEX TAIPEI, the number 1 ICT exhibition in the world. Wang believes that there is something TCA can do and everybody needs to stands up and work together in order to "MOVE Forward", which MOVE has power and becomes the slogan for COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2009.

Rohde & Schwarz is extending the frontiers of wireless communications test equipment with its R&S CMW500 wideband radio communication tester. "The R&S CMW500 is the first all-in-one solution on the market for every phase of development and production," says Anton Messmer, Director of the Mobile Radio Testers Subdivision. The tester opens the door to measurements in production by supporting all relevant cellular and non-cellular standards and by achieving alignment times up to ten times faster than with conventional solutions. To enable cutting-edge development of HSPA+ and UMTS LTE, a broad range of test capabilities are already available. All functional layers of a wireless device - RF parameters, protocols and applications - can be tested with a single platform. "We offer an absolutely safe investment for network operators and manufacturers of chipsets and wireless devices," states Messmer.

SAI Technology Inc., a leading supplier of advanced wireless products to the WiMAX, LTE, WiFi and GPS markets, announced today that it has selected Comsys Mobile's ComMAX^TM CM1125 baseband processor to enable its line of mobile WiMAX handsets. 

Huawei Technologies, a provider of next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, has successfully deployed Southeast Asia largest 2.5GHz WiMAX commercial network in terms of the coverage area for Globe Telecom, the first operator in the Philippines to commercially launch WiMAX broadband services nationwide.

Munich, March 31, 2009 - The new R&S TS8977 test system from Rohde & Schwarz handles standard-compliant measurements on terminal equipment that supports WiMAX and other broadband wireless access (BWA) standards. The R&S TS8977 makes it possible for the first time to run test cases stipulated by the new ETSI R&TTE directive. Manufacturers and test houses will enjoy multiple benefits from the only all‑in-one solution available on the market. Automated test sequences ensure high efficiency because they make user control unnecessary during the time-consuming measurements of conducted spurious emissions. In addition, automatic system calibration yields high measurement reproducibility and accuracy.

Chinese vendor Huawei has been looking to make some major inroads in the U.S. market and may do so via a major WiMAX contract with Clearwire. The Wall Street Journal is reporting Huawei is a finalist for an infrastructure contract with the WiMAX operator, competing against Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks and Samsung Electronics. Clearwire, however, is anticipated to grant more than one contract.

Samsung revealed information regarding its first handheld WiMAX device slated to operate over Clearwire's network. The vendor plans to introduce the SWD-M100 Mondi soon, but it's unclear when. The Mondi is expected to be the first handheld WiMAX device in the U.S., and will feature a touch screen with a QWERTY keyboard that is visible when the screen slides up. Other features include a 3-megapixel camera, WiFi, microSD slot, TV out and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR.

Taipei, March 29 (CNA) The government will work with Taiwan's communications equipment manufacturers to develop the next generation technology, the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) said Sunday.

PORTLAND, Ore. - (Business Wire) Today the WiMAX Forum^® announced the addition of four new members to its Board of Directors: Ali Tabassi, senior vice president of global ecosystem and standards for Clearwire Corporation, Dave Williams, senior vice president of wireless technology at Comcast Cable, Thomas Lee, vice director of industry standards department for Huawei Technologies, and Bao-Shuh Paul Lin, vice president and general director of the Information and Communications Research Laboratories at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

Comsys Communication & Signal Processing Ltd. has announced the launch of their latest ComMAX^TM reference design platform, the CM1125RD - an optimized multimode mobile WiMAX/GSM‑EDGE smartphone reference design platform.   Based on the ComMAX CM1125 baseband processor and integrating market-leading solutions from Comsys Mobile's Ecosystem partners, it incorporates all the features and functionalities required of smartphones, from antennae up to application processor.  OEM/ODMs can now receive a complete pre-integrated form-factor solution enabling maximum optimization and reduced time to market.

Giga Solution, a test service corporation focusing on RFIC/SiP/SoC test area, and Global Unichip, a fabless ASIC and SoC design service provider, have announced the jointly developed test service solution for RF SiP of mobile TV tuner has successfully achieved mass production.

Radio access network equipment expenditure is expected to contract by 6% as wireless infrastructure vendors brace for a stormy year. The latest market data from ABI Research pegs infrastructure spending at about US$49 billion in 2009.

The number of mobile broadband subscribers (including W-CDMA/HSPA and CDMA2000/EV-DO) worldwide jumped 125% in 2008 over 2007, hitting 210.5 million, and are expected to top 1 billion by 2013, according to Infonetics Research. Sales of mobile broadband PC cards and embedded mobile broadband cards topped US$4.1 billion worldwide in 2008, and are expected to continue gathering momentum in 2009.

Red Bend Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), announced that Beceem Communications, a provider of Mobile WiMAX chips, has chosen Red Bend's vDirect Mobile device management (DM) client software for Beceem's family of WiMAX chipsets. Beceem and Red Bend are integrating vDirect Mobile into Beceem's carrier-proven software stack to provide Beceem's customers with the option to leverage the proven performance of Red Bend's OMA-DM client. vDirect Mobile is the industry's leading independent DM client that is interoperable with any DM server supporting standards from the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), including the WiMAX Management Object used by the WiMAX Forum and adopted by leading WiMAX operators worldwide.

China-based telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies plans to set up an interoperability testing (IOT) center for WiMAX products in Taiwan in June, marking the beginning of cooperation between Taiwan and China telecom equipment makers in the WiMAX industry, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

Pure-play WiMAX semiconductor company Beceem utilizes innovative technologies to squeeze increased performance out of Mobile WiMAX networks - including 3.5GHz deemed by many suitable only for fixed applications. Interview with Lars Johnsson, VP Marketing & Business Development for Beceem.

KUALA LUMPUR: Packet One Networks (M) Sdn Bhd is appointing a second WiMax technology partner in ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunication equipments and network solutions to telecom operators all over the world, in addition to its existing partner Alcatel-Lucent.

IRVINE, Calif. -- ChinaTel Group, Inc. (ChinaTel) (OTCBB:CHTL), a leader in high speed wireless broadband and telecommunications infrastructure engineering and construction services announced today, along with its partnership structure with wireless technology provider CECT-Chinacomm Communications Co., Ltd. (ChinaComm) and its joint venture through Yungi Communications Technology Co. Ltd., and Chinacomm Limited, it is continuing to move forward with its aggressive plan to deploy a high speed wireless broadband telecommunications network across 29 cities in the People's Republic of China.

Everyone has become accustomed to the idea of wireless broadband technology, allowing you to connect any PC or laptop with wireless capabilities to a wireless router in your home or to a wireless hotspot when you`re on the move. However, the typical range of these technologies is limited to one house or one building, and you can't take your wireless enabled laptop with you and expect to be able to connect to a wireless internet connection anywhere in the world.

Worldwide total mobile infrastructure market revenues grew 5% in 2008, driven by the nearly doubling and quadrupling of revenues of the WCDMA and WiMAX markets, respectively, according to Dell'Oro Group.

Taiwan-based network equipment maker Mototech is expected to begin shipping satellite set-top boxes (STBs) to Scientific-Atlanta (SA) , an affiliate of Cisco Systems, as well as new IP STBs to other clients this year, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

Tier 2 and Tier 3 carriers approaching the 4G space are coming to a fork in the road. One path leads to WiMAX where a close look reveals the first foundations of Best Buys and Fry's hawking 4G devices. The other path is LTE where the foundations, frankly, are still being dug.

As Indian state-owned operator BSNL prepares to select vendors for its massive Mobile WiMAX project, the WiMAX Forum expects 100 operators to launch new services this year based on the technology.

Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC), on February 25, issued a green light for WiMAX licensee Vmax Telecom to begin installation of its WiMAX base stations and related infrastructure.

ANADIGICS, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANAD), today launched the AWM6424, a new worldwide WiMAX 4G power amplifier (PA) that provides exceptional linearity and efficiency across the 2.3-2.7 GHz frequency range. Adopting the same package footprint and pin out as ANADIGICS' existing AWM6422 and AWM6423 WiMAX PAs, the new device's wideband capability significantly simplifies the design of broadband mobile wireless equipment intended to operate in multiple international destinations.

dmedia System Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of customer premises equipment (CPE), proudly announces the release of its stylish 4.3-inch touch-responsive Mobile Internet Device (MID).  The innovative-M0- is based on the Fujitsu WiMax SoC and works with Alcatel-Lucent's WiMAX infrastructure technology. Unlike other MIDs, M0 is powered by the Fujitsu WiMAX power core, FDK AC001 along with the Fujitsu #2A chipset, which not only provides ultra-high speed data transmission but also supplies performance-rich computing.

When the Taiwan government issued six regional WiMAX licenses in the second half of 2007, it hoped the licensees could set up infrastructure and kick off operations in two years. The government was then looking to issue at least one nationwide license in the second half of 2009.

While some of Intel's Taiwan partners in Taiwan have quietly raised concerns about Intel's future commitment to Moorestown and WiMAX, Intel has reiterated its long-term support for both its second-generation mobile Internet device (MID) platform platform and the next-generation wireless communication technology.

ECS EliteGroup Computer Systems and Comsys Communication & Signal Processing Ltd. today announced the launch of a second ECS mobile device featuring Comsys Mobile's ComMAX chipset.  ECS EliteGroup is launching its U170 eMAX model, a WiMAX USB modem dongle also functioning as a cellphone that, like the S370 Personal Internet Communicator introduced to the market last month, integrates the Comsys Mobile ComMAX CM1125 single-chip multimode mobile WiMAX/GSM-EDGE baseband processor.