Zain ISP is now have a contender as WiMAX provider in Jordan.
Kulacom was awarded 3.68GHz band (15MHz channel bandwidth) and 3.65GHz (10MHz channel bandwidth) in 2008 and completed building base stations and transmission networks in early 2009. As it begins providing commercial WiMAX in May, it also announced its plan to secure 2.5 million customers by 2012.
Established in Dubai in 2006, Kulacom is a WiMAX-based communications services company. It is currently expanding its business in the MENA region and Northern Europe and diversifying its product offerings to include VoIP, IPTV and games. As for its WiMAX project in Jordan, the company formed a subsidiary named Kulacom Jordan.
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Green Packet to carries a complete range of award-winning WiMAX modems, offering best-in-class performance and quality to ensure users are always best connected !

Green Packet recently unveiled  DX ‘Tower’ WiMAX/WiFi router and UH ‘Shuttle’ WiMAX USB modem which showcased at Booth 29, WiMAX Forum Congress Americas, from 2 – 3 December 2009.

‘Tower’ symbolizes power, communication and strength. ‘Shuttle’ represents exploration, discovery and cutting edge technology at its best.
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In October WiMAXian featured KT, the second-largest mobile operation in Korea,will release a new smartphone Samsung SPH-M8400 by the end of this year. The unit will offer 3W connectivity-WiBro (WiMAX in Korea), WCDMA and Wi-Fi.

Recently KT launched Samsung SPH-M8400 (aka SHOW Omnia), the world`s first “3W” mobile phone which supports three wireless internet networks -  mobile WiMAX,WiFi and WCDMA.
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In July WiMAXian featured C-motech CMU-301 earned WiMAX Forum Certification for dual mode CDMA/WiMAX USB modem.

Recently C-motech released a dual mode ‘U-301′ USB modem that supports 3G CDMA EVDO Rev A and mobile WiMAX Wave 2.

A C-motech staff member said “C-motech will supply ‘U-301′ to Sprint from December.”

The U301 apparently will provided by Franklin Wireless Corp which has facility in San Diego, California but for manufacturing of the Franklin’s products has been contracted out to C-motech Co. Ltd., located in South Korea.

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Chicago has long-awaited the launch of a WiMAX network. In 2007, Clearwire and Sprint agreed jointly to build a nationwide network, with Chicago getting the service as early as 2008. The Clearwire-Sprint deal fell apart at the end of 2007, but the two companies merged their wireless broadband units into a new entity in 2008.
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The biggest factors influence where Clearwire target for next WiMAX rollouts will be Clearwire’s investor group  which are Comcast, Time Warner, Google, and Intel, accoording to John Storch, the vice president of network deployment at Clearwire.

So obviously that’s the reason why Comcast bundling WiMAX with cable to Portland customers and recently Time Warner Cable officially announced will become CLEAR reseller and bundling with the company’s existing broadband, TV and VoIP services and expected to start in Dallas on December 1.
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Many manufacturer developed portable router that can share 4G conectivity to WiFi-enabled device such as notebook, iPod Touch, game console, printer etc.

The most popular is intebro’s Egg which has known as Wibro Egg, Yota Egg and UQ WiMAX “EGG”(iWWR-1000J) with white and pink color option

Recently ZyXEL announced the MWR222, a pocket-sized portable device that equipped with 802.11n standard compatible WiFi router with data transfer rate up to 150 Mbps.  This router supports a wired DSL/cable connection and mobile broadband 3G/4G (WiMAX/LTE) connectivity for a true, always-on, anywhere connection.
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