Fixed vendor strategies - 17/02/08

Voice over WiMAX: Netindex, Kaga Electronics and Runcon Technologies jointly demonstrated in Barcelona a mobile phone working on a WiMAX network.

The WiMAX Forum announced it would include 700 MHz in its future certification profiles, creating a new opening for WiMAX vendors.

Tellabs introduced its new 8607 access switch with environmental hardening and power redundancy.

Motorola acquires WiMAX chip maker DesignArt Networks. In a separate announcement, it said it will start licensing its mobile WiMAX chipset based radio reference design, WTM1000 to third parties.