4G Weekly Digest November 4th, 2009 - Volume 5, Issue 11

Editor's Foreword
By Adlane Fellah, CEO & Founder

BRIC countries' role in global politics and the economic scene has dramatically increased in the past few years. Evidence of the heavyweights of these countries involved in world events is no longer in question; they now regularly participate in G20 summits, Rio will host the 2016 Olympics as did China last year, and Brazil and India may become permanent members of the UN Security Council within the next decade... >> Read More

What Went Wrong with Commodity Device Markets?
By Robert Syputa, Senior Analyst & Partner

A recent article appeared in Barron's financial magaazine entitled "What Went wrong with the Novatel MiFi?" MiFi has been adopted by a number of 3G operators incuding Verizon, Sprint, MobileOne, Bell Canada, and Vodafone... >> Read More

Special Country Focus: 4G in Taiwan
By Basharat Ashai, Market Analyst, APAC & MEA

Taiwan's telecom regulator, the National Communications Commission (NCC), awarded six WiMAX licenses in the 2.5 - 2.69 MHz frequency rage in Juy 2007... >> Read More

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"While LTE and WiMAX share much in common and work is being done to allow inter-working of networks, the estensive concerted effort to combine the standards is unlikely. ICs and modules that can be used to fashion multiple mode devices may result in practical harmonization between standards."
- Robert Syputa, Senior Analyst & Partner, Maravedis, from "Sizing Up the Competitive Opportunities for Verizon and Clearwire," Market Report, November 2009


	Motorola ships 10,000th WiMAX access point base site >>Read More
	Motorola posts unexpected Q3 profit >>Read More
	SK Telecom reports impressive Q3 >>Read More
	Alcatel-Lucent tumbles on wider loss >> Read More
	NSN may cut nearly 6,000 jobs >>Read More
	Novatel issues disappointing guidance for the 4th quarter >> Read More
	3 Malaysian WiMAX licencees fined for failure to reach 25% population coverage >> Read More

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