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 | Re: just cells? No, Xohm/WiMAX is not exclusively for cellphones. | |
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join:2007-09-17
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Re: just cells? 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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Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| Re: just cells? 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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join:2004-09-07
Cadillac, MI
| 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 | Re: just cells? 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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join:2007-09-17
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Re: just cells? 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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join:2004-09-07
Cadillac, MI
| Re: just cells? 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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