ztmike
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join:2001-08-02
Michigan City, IN | just cells?
This is just for cell phones and not your home desktop...correct? |
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BodyBumper
join:2004-06-21
Beverly Hills, CA | No, Xohm/WiMAX is not exclusively for cellphones. |
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GOLFnSUN
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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said by ztmike  :This is just for cell phones and not your home desktop...correct? NO.
Here is what they plan for fixed locations:
Motorola-branded WiMAX Wireless Broadband Gateways. They function in the same way as a typical home router, acting as a gateway to a 2.3, 2.5, or 3.5GHz WiMAX network while providing Ethernet jacks and 802.11b/g/n connectivity for devices in the home. A Motorola employee explained that the devices on display were currently in production, with sales to WiMAX providers to begin soon. At some point, he said, consumers would be able to buy the gateways at their local big-box retailers.
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
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| WiMAX will be built into laptops, phones, cars, GPS devices, cameras/camcorders, internet radios, pretty much any device that could benefit from being on the Net.
You won't see that with 3G, LTE or cell-based systems. It's just too limiting. WiMAX is more open like WiFi.
To start with, laptops will be the primary use of WiMAX with a few phones maybe. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
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| Yeah - CDMA/GSM are currently limited because they've been based on providing voice service as their base, Internet as a secondary service.
WiFi/WiMAX are data based services only.
Lets hope WiMAX does the right thing and start using SIM cards.
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aeblank
join:2004-09-07
Cadillac, MI
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As usual, it'll be brought online in cities, where customers have 1, 2, or 3 other options for broadband.
Then there are people like me who are 2 miles out of cable range and 4 out of dsl range. Neither network will be upgraded to include me in anything less than 10 years. I pay $54/mo for ISDN and have tried (more than once) to justify a $200/mo. T1. I'd pay $75+ per month for the kind of service they're talking about.
But again, it'll never happen. They want the population base of cities. Same old story, same old game. I know I pay a price for living where I can pee off my back porch without anyone knowing, but dang is it frustrating.
Don't even get me started about people whining because they have 6M cable and want 8M cable. Crikey, I wish..... |
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StuckWithSat
@tmodns.net | I totally agree - I will be *amazed* if this Xohm service is made available anywhere where there isn't already cable and DSL and T1 etc etc. Rural areas will continue to be totally ignored. |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
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| said by StuckWithSat :
Rural areas will continue to be totally ignored.
Clearwire will be rolling out to many rural areas, which will be marketed under Sprint's XOHM brand. But it will take forever to get to the whole country where there isn't any kind of density. States will probably have to subsidize Sprint/Clearwire for significant state-wide coverage as they would lose money to supply a connection to a few users.. |
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sirwoogie
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Carleton, MI
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You can thank the affiliate iPCS for your woes. Coverage for Sprint in norther lower Michigan is atrocious. Up near Rogers City and Ocqueoc/Millersburg area Sprint put native towers. I had full Rev. A coverage and pretty good speed (1.5/400). Those are some pretty rural areas. Your other problem is that Altel hasn't deployed EVDO in your area either (but they do have 1xRTT).
I can appreciate your problems though. I'm 2000ft short of the CO limitation, and cable stopped at the other side of a railroad track about 750ft. from my house. It's so close i can smell it. But I have absolutely no hope of getting "wired" in this decade (not enough houses to justify cable deployment or an RT). EVDO here is great. WiMax will be fantastic in mid 08. I think Cadillac and the western part of the state will start to get better, most especially if the 700Mhz auction goes to who we hope it goes to.  |
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aeblank
join:2004-09-07
Cadillac, MI
| said by sirwoogie :I think Cadillac and the western part of the state will start to get better, most especially if the 700Mhz auction goes to who we hope it goes to. Actually we have EVDO in Caddy now. I want to do some speed tests closer to town (with more signal). But the "EV" icon is lit on my brother's phone. This just happened within the last month or so. My family plan is full, but I'm contemplating a very custom router that can load balance and only connect at certain times (non-peak). Someday........ |
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