phoneboy3
@shawcable.net
| reply to en102
Re: ......and the propaganda begins
Ummmm, your way off in a couple important ways. LTE is not a natural upgrade path for HSPA. HSPA core is traditional packet switched. LTE is IP core.
WiMAX is also IP core so you could just as easily migrate from HSPA to WiMAX. Actually WiMAX and LTE are VERY very similar. The most important differences are more political/business rather than technical.
LTE is designed by the telcos for the telcos to maintain as much control as possible in the telcos hands. The WiMAX standard is designed by IEEE who's mandate is all about technical merit first and foremost. WiMAX therefore put's more power in the users and device manufacturers hands, not the Telco's.
These are facts the Telco's don't want you to know. |
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cptmiles
Premium
join:2004-04-22
Swayzee, IN
|  I agree. If the general public want to rage against the corporate machine...Wi-Max might possibly be the way.
This might be the first time in a long time small carriers following a standard protocol has a jump on the big guys.
It's my opinion that Wi-Max will evolve at least 3 times before LTE gets a sniff. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| reply to phoneboy3
Very true that they are both IP based, however, do you expect the traditional 'MAP' core and roaming agreements to 'just disappear'. Handoffs between UMTS/HSPA and LTE will happen, just as EVDO VoIP to LTE will.
Telcos will attempt to have a 'natural' migration on handsets (whatever they may look like) to be able to handle UMTS/HSPA and LTE regardless of if its switched core or IP based.
WiMAX will be more of a open nature by being designed by IEEE, however, that does not mean that the corporations deploying it will be. It will not be 'WiFi' allowing the average user to set up a WiMAX base station for ~$50.
I do see WiMAX as having more available offerings that LTE will not dream of... but I do see that the +3.5 billion GSM/CDMA handsets not 'jumping' to WiMAX tomorrow either.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | Basic point is, LTE is compatible with provisioning/management/billing/CS/trouble ticket/monitoring/routing/roaming systems of GSM. |
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