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Re: Another Minority tech said by patcat88:Keep drinking your Koolaid. Wimax is just a cellphone network standard like any other, except it will be force bundled with Intel laptops, and not initially carrier locked. Actually....
WiMAX was ORIGINALLY designed as a broadband internet access standard. As subscriber 'telephone' devices started to morph into do-all, end-all, bell and whistle boxes, they became more like access modems with telephone call (VoIP ?) like features.
Nextel was desperately behind in 3G+ capability and, with the addition of Sprint, decided to try and end-run the competition by pledging to deploy a broadband access network instead of "just another cell system" (JACS ??  ) The result was that big dollars bought out the original implementers of WiMAX (anybody remember a company called NextNet ?) and the competitors stepped in with UMTS & LTE because they too saw the writing on the wall. Now, WiMAX is in danger of being hijacked for what you called 'just a cellphone network standard'.
You don't happen to work for someone deploying UMTS or LTE, do you ? I, for one, hope WiMAX retains a lot of it's broadband access feel - I have need for rural high speed access - the original plan for the standard.
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