 Michieru2zzz zzz zzzPremium
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Miami, FL | ! Enough with the PR Sprint!
Show me the goods, lets see the equipment and hopefully it's not a skyscraper of a box that you need to carry around like Clearwire.
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 davoice
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| said by Michieru2:hopefully it's not a skyscraper of a box that you need to carry around like Clearwire. Clearwire already has test units of the Motorola manufactured PC cards in-hand. They are CardBUS PCMCIA cards. Not sure when ExpressCards or portable USB units will show up.
I've had one of the test units in my laptop for a whirl (shhhh, don't tell anyone) and they do work. You give up a lot of antenna performance though. The laptop cards will limit you to strong signal areas unless you plan to use an external antenna. Don't expect them to work well in fringe areas. New markets will get them first, existing markets will see them slowly phased in. Motorola has to ramp up production (and remember Sprint and Motorola aren't exactly on the best speaking terms at the moment... it's a love hate relationship).
And the test units run *hot*... but then again so do EVDO cards. The average residential customer will be better served with the external box.
Also keep in mind that neither Clearwire nor Sprint will be marketing these as a "mobile" solution. They're basically "fixed" or "semi-mobile" devices that just happen to be able to roam from site to site. The primary marketing will be as DSL and wired connection replacement.
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Michieru2zzz zzz zzzPremium
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Miami, FL | Hmmm who might you be eh?
Don't think you can just walk in here and say you have test units without even showing a picture or less with details.
I am already aware that there is WiMAX PCMCIA cards since Zyxel had them for sale for more than 5 months now. But since you seem to be a beta tester you also have some juicy details I finally want to know about WiMAX.
Current EVDO cards can be comparable to a built-in Airport Extreme, believe it or not that little thing gets hot, as much as the CPU itself. Actually it can cause first degree burns if you have direct contact with your leg and the plastic, by the time you notice it hurts and your leg is shiny red. So to be perfectly honest EVDO is not that bad, but does the WiMAX gets hotter or about the same or less?
Also Sprint has contracts with Nokia & Motorola have you only been able to test the Motorola units?
How much data throughput where you able to achieve next to a tower, and far away from a tower. How power hungry are the cards, and can WiMAX be used for making calls as well or is it simply data? What is the ping on WiMAX.
Also Embarq is the company that handles the wireline division of Sprint, the wireless is a completely separate portion, that sounds as something Embarq will say not, Sprint-Nextel wireless division.
Also if you don't plan on telling me nothing at least tell me where I can get one of these cards to beta test them myself.
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davoice
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| Been around here for 7 years. Look at the join date. Go figure it out.
said by Michieru2:Don't think you can just walk in here and say you have test units without even showing a picture or less with details. Actually I can and did. Not like I'm some newb. There's things called NDAs that exist for reasons. But if you can find you a local Clearwire engineer you just might see one in his/her laptop w/ your own eyes.
said by Michieru2:Also Sprint has contracts with Nokia & Motorola have you only been able to test the Motorola units? Clearwire only has contracts w/ Motorola. Before that they were manufacturing their own equipment (well, OEMing it themselves). They sold that part of their business to Motorola.
If you have a major business account you might get a visit from an engineer to show the beta units to you. You might even get one to play with. Otherwise, you'll have to wait until Sept/Oct to play with them like everyone else.
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Michieru2zzz zzz zzzPremium
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1 edit | "Been around here for 7 years. Look at the join date. Go figure it out."
Nah, I would prefer that you just told me.
"Actually I can and did. Not like I'm some newb. There's things called NDAs that exist for reasons. But if you can find you a local Clearwire engineer you just might see one in his/her laptop w/ your own eyes."
Where exactly here on BBR? If so I will search your history, if located somewhere else I am clueless as where to start looking.
"If you have a major business account you might get a visit from an engineer to show the beta units to you. You might even get one to play with. Otherwise, you'll have to wait until Sept/Oct to play with them like everyone else."
I would prefer to hear it from you since you actually toyed around with one. I won't be here by the time September.
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