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Intel’s WiMax invades Sweden

Friday, May 9th, 2008

After Intel and Google’s WiMax antics earlier this week it looks like Sweden is next in the chipamker’s sights. The Scandinavian country awarded four “mobile broadband licences” this week - and Intel is confirmed as one of the lucky winners.

According to AP, it paid around $26 million for its WiMax licence which will go for 15 years. Intel apparently plans to rent the licence to another network operator, according to AP.

While it’s good news for the WiMax lobby to see Intel putting its stake in the ground and ringfencing some spectrum for future WiMax networks, I can’t help but feel Intel should be shouting about its network operator partner as soon as it’s got the licence in its hand, rather than securing the licence and then hunting down someone to run the network at some point in the future.

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O2 hits 80 percent 3G coverage at last

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

When operators bought their 3G licences back in 2000, they all promised to get coverage to 80 percent of the population by the end of last year. And they all managed it too - with the exception of O2, who got a bit of a slap on the wrist from the regulator after it missed the deadline.

The story has a happy ending though - Ofcom has confirmed O2 has finally hit the 80 percent target, albeit several months behind its rivals and after threats by the watchdog to cut its licence short unless it fulfilled its 3G pledge.

There’s some suggestions that this is secretly a signal a 3G iPhone is on the way. While it probably is, I don’t think this network build out is anything to do with it: after all, O2 launched the first 2G iPhone, and it didn’t have much of an EDGE network to start with either.

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