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CTIA Device Announcements Set Pace for 2008
By Jeff Orr, Senior Analyst - Consumer Electronics |
The month of April kicked off CTIA Wireless 2008, the annual spring gathering of the North American mobile communications industry to discuss progress and show off the latest wares. Several compelling devices were announced at this year’s show.
Sprint added its first EV-DO handset, a pair of Sanyo radios for its push-to-talk offering, and announced four additional devices for the upcoming XOHM mobile WiMAX service.
The biggest announcement for Sprint was the Samsung Instinct. The touch-screen handset will launch in June on the operator’s EV-DO rev.A network, which is touted as covering more than 15,000 cities and nearly 1,500 airports. Samsung Instinct boasts GPS-based location services, Sprint TV, visual voicemail, corporate and consumer (POP3) email support, multitasking capabilities, a 2.0 megapixel camera with camcorder and expandable microSD memory of up to 8GB. Additional features include stereo Bluetooth. more…
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Fields of Dreams…as Indicated by Sprint’s Voracious Appetite for Backhaul
By Robert Syputa, Senior Analyst |
Sprint’s announcement of delays in commercial activation of WiMAX informs of how competition will be fought for personal broadband market. Prior analysis that Sprint’s WiMAX service will be driven by high bandwidth applications including point-to-point file and video sharing, IPTV and growing business applications now in development is initially confirmed. Research on Web 2.0, GPS-mapping and wireless broadband enabled business and mass market applications indicates that network usage is likely to flourish along profitable lines as the new generation of mobile devices proliferate on open networks. Sprint is positioning as a world leader in business and personal broadband innovation. more…
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RACSA to reach +75,000 WiMAX Subscribers in Costa Rica by 2011.
Interview with Max Castro, WiMAX Head from RACSA
By Cintia Garza, Market Analyst |
Radiografica Costarricense S.A (RACSA), a subsidiary of state-owned Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) in Costa Rica, owns a nationwide license in the 3.5GHz frequency band with 100MHz of spectrum. On August 2007, RACSA awarded a contract to Alvarion for the supply of 4MotionTM solution product range to provide extended wireless access services in several major cities in Costa Rica. As of April 2008 they have installed 14 WiMAX base stations in the Greater Metropolitan Areas of Costa Rica, covering the cities of San Jose, Alajuela, Cartago and Heredia, with an initial investment of US$3 million. Commercial service plans are available for 512Kbps (29 dlls) and 2Mbps (144 dlls). The service is offered under the name of Evoluciona. The network will be capable of carrying 20,000 broadband connections. The company expects to reach 75,000 WiMAX Subscribers by 2011. more…
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