For years cellular mobile and WiMAX network operators along with their network and device suppliers have been touting their wireless broadband offerings as 4G, but the International Telecommunication Union has only just finalised the 4G standards.

Struggling telco infrastructure vendor Nokia Siemens Networks has announced plans to sell its WiMAX business - formerly owned by Motorola Solutions - to NewNet Communication Technologies for an undisclosed figure.

Vividwireless has revamped its wireless broadband plans, increasing data quotas and is offering new customers Christmas cashbacks.

Huawei is claiming three 'world firsts' with its new multimode USB dongles and a WiMAX/HSPA Android 2.2 handset.

Next Wednesday, July 13, Telstra, NBN Co and vividwireless will battle each other for 2.3GHz spectrum covering vast swathes of rural and remote Australia, and home to some 700,000 people.

The head of the ITU has stated categorically that every vendor and operator using the term '4G' for current wireless technologies is in error.

vividwireless has extended its mobile WiMAX network to areas around the Australian National University and universities of Queensland and Adelaide and says it is in discussions with a short list of potential investors to fund large scale rollouts in these cities and in Melbourne and Sydney.

The IEEE has approved the next iteration of mobile WiMAX as IEEE802.16m, the first true 4G version of mobile WiMAX.

Vividwireless says it is sufficiently impressed with the price and performance of TD-LTE technology that it could use it for the deployment of planned network expansions in major East Coast capital cities.

vividwireless - which operates WiMAX based mobile broadband services across Perth and in limited areas of other capital city CBDs - has revamped both its pre and postpaid pricing plans.