Telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks is dumping its WiMax business to focus on 4G wireless technology.
While developments around WiMax are gathering pace, it could be rival wireless standards, like 3G, that benefit from the technology's increasing maturity.
WiMax could prove to be the winner in the 4G race against LTE (Long Term Evolution) simply because the technology is here, first.
Nortel staff in Australia and New Zealand are likely to escape the thousands of redundancies announced at the company's fourth quarter results briefing.
Alcatel said last week that it plans to buy some of Nortel Networks' wireless access infrastructure equipment for US$320 million in an effort to beef up its 3G wireless business in Europe and Asia.
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