Motorola continues WiMAX leadership with 802.16e

Motorola, Inc. Issued a year-end update on its wi4 WiMAX solutions and customer engagements during which time it increased to 15 its number of contracts for commercial WiMAX networks and demonstrated the historic first live mobile WiMAX 802.16e handoffs between continuous WiMAX cells supporting voice, data and multimedia applications during WiMAX World USA in Chicago.

The company also increased to more than 57 the number of WiMAX engagements in 38 countries, it is on track to support Sprint/Xohm soft launch in Chicago and is on schedule with deployment for the planned commercial launch in Q2 2008, delivered thousands of access points to customers worldwide and tens of thousands of CPE units or PC cards, completed the deployment of the first 802.16e commercial WiMAX network in Pakistan, unveiled its test WiMAX mobile device and WiMAX chipset which will be embedded in consumer electronic devices to provide mobile Internet access and completed the first phase deployment of two additional commercial WiMAX systems in France and Germany.

“2008 promises to be another exciting year for WiMAX and the entire 4G landscape,” said Phil Marshall, vice president, Enabling Technologies, Yankee Group.  “We expect that in 2008 several large scale national WiMAX deployments will be announced in Asia and Europe.  Currently our conservative forecasts are calling for 37 mln WiMAX globally subscribers by 2011.”

Motorola’s wi4 WiMAX portfolio was also recognized for several awards during 2007.

Motorola’s wi4 WiMAX solutions are designed to support fixed, portable, nomadic and mobile applications. The WiMAX access points, customer premises equipment and mobile WiMAX chipsets under development for use in Motorola’s devices are part of the MOTOwi4 portfolio of solutions that complement and complete wireless broadband networks.