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Jun. 1, 2009

Recently, LTE technology has received a lot of publicity; some say too much in fact.

However, judging from the stream of WiMAX-related news coming across the news these days, there’s still a lot of talk about the technology.

For its part, Clearwire has made two more vendor announcements as it works to fulfill its plan to build out a nationwide mobile WiMAX network.

Earlier this morning, it was announced that the Sprint-backed mobile WiMAX startup chose M-Formation Technologies to supply mobile device management software.

M-Formation boasts big-name clients like AT&T, T-Mobile USA and Vodafone, and it expects to fully support a whole range of wireless devices for Clearwire as its apps ecosystem takes shape.

The company’s service manager is currently up and running in Clearwire’s existing markets and will expand its partnership as Clearwire continues its buildout.

“Going forward, a whole range of new devices will need to be supported, including dongles, netbooks and consumers electronics,” says Rob Dalgety, commercial director at M-Formation Technologies.

Thursday, there was even another vendor announcement related to Clearwire, when Brightpoint North America said it was chosen to provide logistics support, such as inventory management, order processing and invoicing.

The WiMAX Forum also announced it had added Tata Communications’ Chief Operating Officer Prateek Pashine to its board.

The other WiMAX news comes in the form of two additions to the WiMAX Forum’s board of directors. The more notable of the two is Sai Subramanian, Cisco’s director of marketing for its broadband wireless business unit.

Subramanian will represent Cisco on the WiMAX Forum board of directors. Cisco was recently selected by Clearwire to provide its national IP Next-Generation Network.

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Source: Clearwire.