With phones and LANs steadily going wireless and consumer electronics not far behind, one part of the networked world – broadband to the home or business – has stubbornly remained wired in most cases.

As standards-compliant products prepare to ship, ’tis the season of WiMAX trade shows. Still, the $40,000 question remains: How successful will WiMAX be? As standards-compliant products prepare to ...

Last month’s WiMax World 2007 conference in Chicago was filled with old-fashioned technology optimism, featuring twice as many vendors and visitors as the previous year’s event along with new details ...

Intel has been the biggest backer of WiMax and was a major investor in Clearwire, and their partnership agreement specified the service provider had to use WiMax. The two companies have now modified ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. on Tuesday said it plans to develop and deploy a fourth-generation nationwide broadband mobile network. The 4G wireless broadband network will use ...

Virgin Trains has opted for WiMax to connect passengers wanting to browse the internet from their seat. Virgin will be experimenting with the long range broadband wireless standard on its west coast ...

Even as WiMax promises faster average network speeds than other wireless networks, one company is banking on making money off one of WiMax’s downsides — a difficulty in penetrating the walls of large ...

The U.S. Army’s Communications Electronics Research & Development Engineering Center (CERDEC) will spend several months evaluating Mobile WiMax for possible military use, according to Samsung ...

Clearwire, Kirkland, Wash., is planning to test its 4G LTE technology starting this fall in Phoenix, Ariz., with an emphasis on looking at how LTE can coexist with WiMAX. LTE, or 3GPP Long Term ...

Sprint has completed nearly a year's worth of testing and has now declared WiMax up to commerical deployment standards Sprint Nextel Thursday announced that WiMax has met its commercial deployment ...

Research in Motion announced today that it will utilize even more high speed networks in the second quarter of 2011. They let us know that they will have direct support for LTE and HSPA + networks ...

MOSCOW, March 29 (Reuters) - Russian wireless telecoms firm Yota, one of the largest WiMax operators globally, said it might eventually switch to using rival LTE technology, making it the second WiMax ...