June 10, 2008

While some analysts contemplate why WiMAX has been slow to find uptake in Australia, the rest of the APAC region looks to the technology as the way toward a wireless future. Of course, the big news this past week was the formation of a WiMAX "patent pool" between six of the biggest IP holders in the sector: Intel, Clearwire, Sprint, Samsung, Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco. Few failed to notice that Motorola, Alvarion and Qualcomm didn't make the cut this time, but it's a safe bet that some of them will soon. Others...

Caroline Gabriel reports on Silicon Valley start-up WiChorus, which has softened its stance on which WiMAX profiles will dominate and made a few changes to its core. Femtocells and picocells were just some of the drivers of the shift, but there's even talk of LTE incorporation in the future, which certainly dovetails with some pot-stirring comments made by Intel last week.