• SOMA Networks has announced that Ronan Telephone Company (RTC), which serves rural subscribers in northwestern Montana, selected SOMA’s FlexMAX Wireless System to deliver broadband data and VoIP services. RTC’s new broadband wireless network uses the 700 MHz band.
• Apitilo Networks is showcasing its WiMAX CSN System at WiMAX World this week. The company said the system is a pre-integrated wireless broadband data and voice services solution for standards-compliant mobile WiMAX authentication, authorization and accounting, policy management and service control. It is a multi-access (WiMAX/Wi-FI) platform for service providers to deliver on revenue objectives and meet time-to-market deadlines.
• Wireless Communications Association (WCA) President Fred Campbell will unveil a National Wireless Broadband Communications Strategy for the new administration the day after the U.S. Presidential election. Campbell also will announce the new direction of WCA under his leadership and his vision for wireless broadband. The unveiling will take place at the WCA Silicon Valley Symposium on Nov. 5.
• The WiMAX Forum, in cooperation with India’s trade and commerce chamber, ASSOCHAM, is gathering industry leaders at the WiMAX Summit in New Delhi’s The Oberoi on Oct. 15-16. The WiMAX Summit will demonstrate ecosystem readiness and maturity for accelerating India’s broadband penetration levels. The WiMAX Forum and ASSOCHAM created the summit in recognition of the impact of India’s ecosystem on the success of WiMAX technology worldwide, as well as the potential WiMAX products and networks needed to extend broadband services within India.
• Coresonic AB, a provider of baseband processor technology optimized for next-generation multimode wireless modems, said it will debut “the world’s smallest and most efficient” WiMAX solution. It will demonstrate the company’s LeoCore WiMAX personality pack running on a new FPGA-based evaluation system to show how it is possible to add a complete mobile WiMAX solution to any device with very little additional silicon.