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Notícia de hoje no Portal Thesis:
Nokia e Intel abandonam HSDPA
Tecnologia - Especial WiMAX 2
por WiMAX Day
17-Fev-2007
Nokia e Intel anunciaram esta semana que abandonarão esforço comum, iniciado no passado, de oferecer módulos de 3G HSDPA nos PCs portáteis. Segundo comunicado do Dayly Tech, o porta-voz Eija-Riita Huovinen, da Nokia, disse que as duas companhias haviam suspenso as encomendas de módulos HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) "por razões pragmáticas". Segundo ele, os dois vendors concluíram que esta tecnologia não agrega muito, em termos de negócios. A nova geração do Intel Centrino, porém, virá com dispositivo de conectividade WiMAX. Ler mais...

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Na seqüência da "ambientação de fevereiro" transcrevemos mais abaixo o artigo:
[27/08/06]    A licitação de freqüências para o WIMAX, de Eduardo Tude, diretor do TELECO.
No final do artigo há um comentário de um leitor.
O TELECO é um "parceiro informal" da ComUnidade.

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Como parte dos preparativos para o evento virtual "Especial WiMAX 2", o Portal Thesis fechou parceria com a WiMAX Spectrum Owners Alliance (WiSOA).
"WiMAX Day" é uma publicação eletrônica diária da WiSOA.
Aqui estão alguns itens do boletim de 16/02/07:

Vodafone CEO heralds the WiMAX revolution
BARCELONA (WiMAX Day). At the 3GSM conference in Barcelona this week, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin delivered a rare glimpse of the future and warned the mobile industry of new technologies that will usurp their business and the impending obsolescence of the 3G standard. “As an industry it takes us a long time to get things done; we need to move faster otherwise others will eat our lunch,” said Sarin.

“Is WiMAX the Elephant in the room?” a questioner shouted from the audience. Sarin noted that WiMAX is now a serious contender for mobile broadband. “It is an interesting technology that’s not really ready for prime time the way that we build our networks today,” Sarin said, referring to the 4G networks of the future being planned by Sprint Nextel and other mobile operators, based on IP-OFDM technology, that will soon replace current mobile technologies. Ler mais

Schools in Tunisia get WiMAX
TUNIS (WiMAX Day). The Tunisian Minister of Education, Dr Sadok Korbi, announced this week that students at primary and secondary schools must have access to Internet technology, and by June 2007 he intends to implement a program that connects schools in Tunisia to the Internet using DSL and WiMAX technologies.
According to TunisiaOnline, the Minister said access to the Internet will help to “improve the quality of Tunisian education,” and should improve employment opportunities for young people.

Altech tests WiMAX in S Africa
JOHANNESBURG (WiMAX Day). South African technology systems provider Altech announced this week that it received a license from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to test WiMAX services. The test license permits Altech to use 10 Mhz of the 2.59 GHz frequency band, according to Altech CTO Steve Sidley.
Altech also announced that it will work with Samsung Electronics to build the test network that will offer voice, data and Internet access in the city of Gauteng.
ICASA has granted WiMAX licenses to iBurst, Telkom, Neotel, and Sentech, and has yet to grant commercial licenses to the GSM operators MTN and Vodacom.

Aguardamos muitas colaborações, repercussões e debates sobre WiMAX.

Ainda estamos nos ajustando mas todas as mensagens de preparação e divulgação do Especial WiMAX 2 serão registradas no Portal WirelessBRASIL, BLOCO - Blog dos Coordenadores  e Seção WiMAX do site comunitário WirelessBR.