Stuck at the starting gate
The global mobile broadband market is currently a battlefield between two competing technologies: LTE and WiMax. But in SA, the question is moot.
What’s the frequency, Paris?
The spectrum allocation process could trip up 4G deployment.
WIMAX? THERE ARE PERFECTLY GOOD ALTERNATIVES FOR DIGITAL CITIES
Mike Brierley Head of network Solutions: MTN Business WiMAX is roundly vaunted as the on e technology that will get all of South Africa, however ‘lacking’ in communications infrastructure, connected and clicking.
WiMAX Here at Last (almost)
Virtually all commentators agree that the main key to WiMAX’s success will be its reach – the kind users would only normally associate with a cellphone network.
Long wait for WiMax almost over
Companies planning to deploy WiMax should be on the lookout for regulations byIcasa outlining how it plans to allocate spectrum.
Deregulation round two
WiMax has been touted as the next best thing to providing capacity to deploy data and voice services, but will the test licences issued in September hail the next round of deregulation?
Not all users will be equal
Telkom and Intel have promised to test wireless broadband Internet by December and provide a service next year. But the service quality may depend on where you are.
Broadband power to the people
The Internet has been one of the most disruptive technologies in recent times, changing the way people across the world access information, conduct business and communicate. Now a new technology commonly, known as WiMax looks set to do some of shaking up of its own.