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Category Archives: WiMAX

Arthur Gives Us the 411 on Wi-Fi

The following post has been written by our very own Arthur G. Giftakis, Vice President of Engineering and Network Operations at Towerstream. Arthur has played an extremely important role in designing and implementing our technology over the last 10 years. Arthur will be creating a series of guest blog posts exploring the idea of ‘mobile [...]

Reflections on the iPhone 4

Everyone in the mobile space is no doubt posting their thoughts on this week’s iPhone 4 announcement. Of course, with the tremendous innovation that the new iPhone model is comes great demand on the network. As a wireless provider, Towerstream thought that two interesting things came up during the keynote. One was Apple’s Wi-Fi fluke while [...]

How Businesses Can Better Float in the Cloud

This week, I guest blogged for Technically Philly, Philadelphia’s online source for news, people, companies, and events that affect their growing technology community. Towerstream began providing service in Philadelphia in December 2009, and we’re enthusiastic to become more involved in this market, sharing with locals the emerging trends that excite us at Towerstream. This week, I [...]

Elevator Going Up

A couple of weeks ago, Towerstream hosted CNET’s Maggie Reardon on a behind-the-scenes Empire State Building tour of our rooftop technology, which generates a wireless ring in New York City’s sky. Thanks to CNET’s photography, I now invite you to join me at one of Manhattan’s highest points to see how Towerstream powers local businesses every day.

To reach Towerstream’s Empire [...]

CTIA Wireless 2010 Conference Wrap-Up: Part 1

The CTIA Wireless 2010 conference recently wrapped up in Las Vegas and already there’s been a lot of great, substantive discussion about the themes presented, from the smartphone revolution to the debates raging about WiMAX vs. LTE.
Towerstream’s Chief Revenue Officer Mel Yarbrough was there to speak on a FierceWireless panel addressing [...]

My Top 3 WiMAX News Bites of the Week

Rounding out the week, I wanted to comment on some of the most interesting recent news.

1. Taking WiMAX to the Streets
According to GoingWiMax, Taipei City is implementing 1,000 taxis to be equipped with WiMAX. VMAX Telecom just began providing the free service March 9, 2010. Although I have never been to Taipei, I can [...]

U.S. University Creates WiMAX Environment Model to Replicate

I was excited to see that several higher ed institutions have recently hopped on the WiMAX bandwagon – a logical implementation to help schools increase productivity and decrease wireless costs. According to a recent article on Wimax.com, Ball State University (BSU) spearheaded a wireless research and innovation initiative by partnering with our friends at Alvarion [...]

Score One More for WiMAX – Clearwire Secures Additional Funding

The WSJ’s Jeffrey McCracken and Don Clark reported yesterday that Clearwire has secured an additional $1.5 billion in financing to build out its nationwide WiMAX network.
The article noted, “Sprint would invest $1 billion and its Clearwire joint venture partners, a group which includes Comcast Corp., Intel Corp, Time Warner Cable Inc. and Bright House [...]

Putin WiMAX in Russia

Hello everyone and Happy Columbus Day.
 
There was some interesting WiMAX news recently out of Russia that I wanted to take a closer look at today.  According to FierceTelecom, Russian WiMAX carrier, Yota, said it will be offering WiMAX devices that can make VoIP calls and allow users to roam onto GSM networks when the user [...]

Palm Pre Frenzy

Over the past few days, the wireless world has been buzzing about the June 6 launch of the Palm Pre, which will be exclusively offered on Sprint’s 3G network. 
 
Across the industry, reporters, analysts and consumers alike are asking questions and speculating about the device.  How will it compete against the iPhone?  What will the [...]


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