IBM's promotion of metrozone WiMAX leads to Texas deal
IBM has shown an increasingly keen interest, over the past few years, in the potential for its integration business in the metrozone market, and now it is set to take advantage of this sector's evolution from focusing on best effort, socially oriented networks, to providing carrier class services.ption

IEEE makes its bid to underpin harmonized 4G with 802.16m development
Standards bodies have their politics and their rivalries just like the commercial companies that fund them, and in wireless, there is an increasingly intense battle to take the driving seat for next generation standards. Bodies that once had clearly distinct remits now have overlapping spheres, thanks to convergence, yet unifying them may prove harder than making the platforms they support interoperable.

Alcatel backing boosts Sequans' place in complex WiMAX chip market
Although the amount of Alcatel's investment is undisclosed, the endorsement, and the contracts it brings, are significant to Sequans in the race by WiMAX start-ups to establish a strong enough position to survive eventual consolidation, or at least exit profitably.