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There are WiMAX deployments scattered across the world, but emerging markets, short on broadband offerings, accounted for more than 60% of WiMAX subscribers globally in 2007 found Pyramid Research in it's latest report, WiMAX in Emerging Markets: Operator Lessons in Strategy and Technology. "Through 2012, emerging markets will account for most WiMAX subscribers, who will primarily use it for fixed or portable Internet access," comments Ozgur Aytar, Senior Research Manager for Pyramid...

New Edge Networks, the business communications unit of EarthLink Inc., (NASDAQ:ELNK), says it received the 2008 North American Telecommunications Service of the Year Award for its breakthrough development of a service that allows businesses to prioritize their network data traffic over standard DSL access. Frost & Sullivan, a global research and growth consulting firm, presented the award to New Edge noting that the new service offering "radically changes the network landscape" by...

LOS ANGELES, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- DSL Extreme, a leading provider of high-speed DSL and business-related Internet services, announced today that it is bringing Google Apps(TM) to its customers. With Google Apps, DSL Extreme subscribers will now have access to Google's popular email and communications tools such as Gmail with anti-spam and anti-virus protection, Google Docs collaboration, Google Calendar shared calendaring, Google Talk instant messaging, and a new customizable DSL Extreme...

Rural Telcos, using a new breakthrough technology called Bonded DSL Rings(TM) (BDR), can turn their copper wire infrastructure into a new profit centre and at the same time provide their customers with a feature rich high bandwidth experience previously only available to suburban Telco customers. With BDR Telcos can deliver up to 400 megabits per second bandwidth to their Rural and Urban customers at 1/20th the cost of fiber over existing copper phone lines. BDR is being showcased at Booth...

Broadband Fixed Wireless Offers Superior Value to Fiber Optics for High Capacity Network Services For Freedom Online Paul Rangel, 877-352-4629 Freedom Online announced today, the successful implementation of BridgeWave's AR60X, license-free 60 GHz radio link. The BridgeWave 1.25 Gbps links were used to connect a wireless aggregation point on Freedom Online's network backbone to a collocation facility in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for access to a data storage facility and Internet portal....

By JACK GILLUM SPRINT NET SERVICE ENDS After eight years, Kevin Prodromides is getting cut off. A long-time Sprint subscriber, Prodromides signed up for the company's wireless Internet access because no one else could provide him with connectivity when he first started looking in 2000. Cable Internet wasn't available, and digital subscriber line, or DSL, service wasn't possible because his neighborhood's copper phone wires weren't built for speed. So Sprint Broadband Direct, he said, "was...

New Edge Networks, the business communications unit of EarthLink Inc. (NASDAQ:ELNK), says it has entered into a strategic business agreement with Edgenics Inc. to build and manage a national broadband network that will power innovative video-centric IP services, interactive distance learning and other Web 2.0 applications for schools. Edgenics, a privately held company based in Matawan, N.J., entered into a projected multi-million-dollar agreement under which New Edge will build and...

By Jack Gillum, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Jun. 20--After eight years, Kevin Prodromides is getting cut off. A long-time Sprint subscriber, Prodromides signed up for the company's wireless Internet access because no one else could provide him with connectivity when he first started looking in 2000. Cable Internet wasn't available, and digital subscriber line, or DSL, service wasn't possible because his neighborhood's copper phone wires weren't built for speed. So Sprint Broadband...

Motorola has introduced a new Netopia family of xDSL voice integrated access device gateways to accelerate the delivery of personal media experiences by enabling service providers to offer high-speed internet, voice-over-IP, wired and wireless home networking, and high-definition IPTV services in one device. The Motorola Netopia gateways also offer centralized remote voice provisioning, troubleshooting and management through Motorola's NBBS device management platform. The platform provides...

NXTcomm08 - Actiontec Electronics today introduced the GT724WGR and GT724R -- new DSL Gateways designed to improve the bottom line of Tier 2 and Tier 3 service providers through streamlined modem pre-provisioning, reduced customer support demands, and increased revenue with up-sell and cross-sell opportunities. Actiontec will showcase these new DSL gateways, along with other broadband-connectivity solutions, at NXTcomm08 from June 17-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Booth MSL10126....