[maemo-developers] [Fwd: WiMAX Day -- September 27, 2007]

[From: Acadia Secure Networks]

All,

it appears from the article referenced below that Nokia has settled on 
using Intel WIMAX silicon for the N-series including, I presume, the 
successor to the N800.


Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

Acadia Secure Networks





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Subject: 	WiMAX Day -- September 27, 2007
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Unwired halts trading as Seven Network makes takeover bid

SYDNEY (WiMAX Day). The pioneering WiMAX company Unwired 
<http://wisoa.cmail4.com/l/253583/djl6iyi1/www.unwired.com.au> called a 
halt to its share trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) 
yesterday after Seven Network announced it would make a bid for all 
Unwired shares.

Seven Network has already acquired 19.8 percent of Unwired in the last 
month. Yesterday the Australian broadcaster announced to ASX its intent 
to make an offer to acquire all the outstanding shares in Unwired for 
AUD 50 cents per share, if it can achieve a full takeover. The offer 
made by Seven values Unwired at AUD 127 million.

Seven Network is  a leading media company in Australia. The company owns 
Australia’s largest commercial television network, and is one of the two 
largest publishers of magazines in Australia.

Recently the company has sought to expand the digital end of its 
business and build a delivery platform that could compete with the cable 
network of Fox. Seven also has a joint venture with Yahoo 
<http://wisoa.cmail4.com/l/253583/djl6iyi1/www.yahoo.com>! in Australia, 
and the company also runs the Seven Media Group in partnership with the 
global private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Seven also has the rights to deploy the TiVo digital video recorder in 
Australia. Unwired might prove an important asset to that deployment as 
the TiVo system require access to Internet broadband to download programs.

Kerry Stokes, the chairman of Seven, said in a statement today that if 
successful in its acquisition of Unwired, they would be “acquiring a 
strong business and spectrum that will build our company’s abilities to 
compete in new media technologies.”

Mr Kerry is also keen on WiMAX, and confirmed to reporters that Seven 
intended to fund the development of Unwired’s WiMAX expansion. “Despite 
delays in certification of the technology to date, we believe in the 
potential of WiMAX as a mobile broadband solution and as an efficient 
platform for delivering content solution in multicast and broadcast 
environments,” he was quoted in /The Australian/.

With a reported AUD 2.3 billion in the bank, the deep pockets of Seven 
also could help Unwired achieve its potential as a leading WiMAX 
operator. The company has struggled to finance the build-out of its 
802.16e WiMAX network this year.

Market analysts in Australia were upbeat about the recent turn of 
events. Unwired has long been a market favorite. A report in /Australian 
IT/ noted the response of Warren Chaisatien, managing director of 
telecommunications research specialist Telsyte, who reasoned that the 
news was good for Unwired because it would “would bring other content or 
applications to the table.”

Financial analysts on the other side of the world also took notice. 
Gadamer LeBeuf at Société Générale in New York said this takeover my be 
the first of many. He believes the market will see an increase in M&A 
activity amongst WiMAX companies in the next year. “The WiMAX industry 
is moving so fast, and I think the consolidation phase also will be 
fast, because investors and big companies what to invest as early as 
they can. But for WiMAX, early may have passed already.”

The halt on trading in Unwired shares should be released at the 
beginning of normal trading on September 28, the company’s announcement 
to ASX said. It is expected that a deal will be struck between the two 
companies by that time, and the /Melbourne Herald Sun/ reported that the 
directors of Unwired had already advised that they would vote in favour 
of the takeover.



			

An Italian WiMAX auction nears

MILAN (WiMAX Day). While the date for the auction of 3.5 GHz spectrum in 
Italy has yet to be confirmed (it was scheduled for June 2007), it was 
reported in the Italian daily /Corriere Della Sera/ that the Italian 
government, including the telecomunications ministry AgCom, expect each 
of the national WiMAX licenses will fetch roughly € 80 million Euros. 
The ministry has had to jump through numerous hurdles this year to have 
the auction rules approved. AgCom was criticised for engineering the 
auction rules to favour bids from the incumbent telecoms such as Telecom 
Italia, Vodafone 
<http://wisoa.cmail4.com/l/253583/djl6iyi1/www.vodafone.com> , Fastweb 
<http://wisoa.cmail4.com/l/253583/djl6iyi1/company.fastweb.it>, Tiscali, 
and British Telecom. With the price of the auction now already known, it 
makes the formalities all the more simple.


Nokia orders Intel WiMAX chips

HELSINKI (WiMAX Day). Intel 
<http://wisoa.cmail4.com/l/253583/djl6iyi1/www.intel.com/> announced 
that the Finnish mobile handset manufacturer Nokia 
<http://wisoa.cmail4.com/l/253583/djl6iyi1/www.nokia.com> will use 
Intel’s WiMAX chips for its Nseries Internet Tablets. The chips are 
codenamed “Baxter Peak” and according to an Intel press release, are 
designed specifically for mobile Internet and consumer electronic 
devices. Nokia said that its Internet tablets will be one of first 
WiMAX-enabled handsets shipped in 2008. Intel also announced that it is 
working with Nokia and Nokia Siemens 
<http://wisoa.cmail4.com/l/253583/djl6iyi1/www.siemens.ie/carrier/topics/WiMAX/index.htm> 
Networks in testing interoperability for Intel’s WiMAX semiconductors in 
laptops and mobile Internet devices, as well as in Nokia WiMAX devices 
and Nokia Siemens Networks WiMAX infrastructure equipment.


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