This is a big week as Qualcomm settles a Flarion suite by the Department of Justice. Plus Sprint crosses the 1 Million VoIP subscriber mark. Samsung wins a US WiBro deployment. Beceem launches a terrific new WiMax chip. A Swedish vendor HULU plans a gear launch and Nortel and Navini gain deployment wins.

Massive Canadian WiMax deployments are coming. Alcatel & Lucent merge. Plus Macedonian ambitions for a national broadband wireless network. Intel invests in another service provider. Harris wins BIG with government wireless contracts. The competition (DSL) grew strongly last year and Sprint and EarthLink are doing interesting things.

This week:

• Inukshuk launches wireless service in Canada

• Alcatel & Lucent are Merging

• Macedonia has ambitions for Nationwide broadband wireless

• Intel invests $25 Million in the UKs Pipex Wireless

• Harris nets $42.5 Million contract for secure wireless LAN

• DSL posts strong growth numbers last year

• Sprint plans to update its EV-DO network next year

• EarthLink Rescues the New Orleans Wi-Fi Network

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