802.11 Insider

The WiMAX IP & Patent Report analyzes the intellectual property ownership and development of companies in the emerging ‘Wireless Broadband’ segment in order to track early strategic and technology shifts in the marketplace. This report includes both granted Patents and Patent Applications as well as contact and company affiliation information for each patent. The report also tracks the development of WiMAX-related IP and patent litigation.

Service providers with the right spectrum, available capital, and access to enough sites to place base stations are in a great position to take advantage of WiMAX’s headstart on the 4G market. But LTE (Long-Term Evolution) and UMB (Ultra Mobile Broadband) are vying for 4G as well – and even though mobile WiMAX has a time-to-market advantage over LTE, delays in certifications by the WiMAX Forum (coupled with delays in network rollouts) could narrow that window of opportunity.

Even though it’s still not a standard, 802.11n is starting to take off. The Swedish city of Lund has decided to build wireless hotspots using the technology. Larger carriers are also starting to get interested.

Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), a provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband solutions, and Iberbanda, Spain’s leading WiMAX carrier and subsidiary of Telefonica, announced the deployment of Alvarion’s BreezeMAX system at 3.5GHz in Navarra, an autonomous community in northeast Spain. The network provides voice and data services to residential customers in rural and semi-rural areas throughout the region.

WeFi is hoping to do for Wi-Fi connectivity what Facebook has done for social networking.
WeFi, a software company headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, and in Tel Aviv, Israel, creates software that can be downloaded for free onto laptops or mobile devices that the company says will enhance Wi-Fi connectivity and provide mobile devices with more powerful connection tools.

Perhaps it was wishful thinking, but I thought by now I’d be able to sit at any city cafe, park bench or airport bar across the country and jump on the Internet via a free Wi-Fi connection.

Fujitsu Limited today announced that its outdoor base station for mobile WiMAX, BroadOne WX300, has been selected by UQ Communications Inc. for the development of the company’s nationwide WiMAX services infrastructure in Japan.