 kapilThe Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL | WiMax is better... ...than the alternatives. Especially the vaporware known as LTE.
WiMax is here now, it works and it works well.
The reason it hasn't taken off is because A) Carriers aren't ready to ditch their third generation networks yet...hell, they just got done building them, and some like T-Mo haven't even done that yet. ...and B) Because WiMax is too open, too standardized for carriers who like walled gardens and protection for their revenue stream...so they cooked up their own version called LTE.
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Amen to that. WiMAX is already out in plenty of smallish deployments here in the US. LTE Nowhere to be found. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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Wimax will never take off other than a niche non-mainstream technology for small WISPs selling service in 256 kbit blocks and business-grade connections priced competitively with a T3.
Lets see how standardized it is, [Pre-Wimax, Fixed Wimax, Mobile Wimax, Wibro, Wimax 20**, proprietary addons to Wimax by base station manufacturers]*[each country's own wimax frequency bands]*[a particular provider's frequency bands]=10s to 100s of incompatible products and permutations.
Meanwhile GSM is simple, US freq and/or Euro freq, end of story. I assume LTE to be similar in compatibility. |
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New Jersey
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said by kapil:...than the alternatives. Especially the vaporware known as LTE. WiMax is here now, it works and it works well. The reason it hasn't taken off is because A) Carriers aren't ready to ditch their third generation networks yet...hell, they just got done building them, and some like T-Mo haven't even done that yet. ...and B) Because WiMax is too open, too standardized for carriers who like walled gardens and protection for their revenue stream...so they cooked up their own version called LTE. And probably the fact that Wimax cant handover calls to GSM, UMTS, or cdma, Because it cant. But LTE can, and has been proven to do so. Plus with the economy and the fact that UMTS has quite a few years left in it. Why waste money, no one else plans to use it. Sprint may be first to launch Wimax, but the long list of sprint blunders, this just adds to the list.
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WiMax is dead  |
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kapilThe Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL | reply to DaveDude
I understand that Sprint has pissed off more than its fair share of people in the past...but that's hardly a reason to doom WiMax.
WiMax is an IEEE standard. LTE is vaporware. Think WiFi vs. Ricochet. Remember Ricochet? Exactly.
Give WiMax a chance. It will have it's day...right now enjoy your 3G network.
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kapilThe Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL | reply to ninjatutle
How insightful. You base this opinion on what? Your hatred of sprint? Your connection to industry insiders? Your work in the broadband deployment field? LOL. WiMax hasn't even arrived. Mostly because 4G networks are 5 years away from ubiquitous deployment. At least you can see WiMax networks alive...LTE only exists in labs.
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | reply to kapil
I believe he was referring to Sprint's reputation as a blundering dunderhead with most of their non-core (and even some of their core) business efforts, not necessarily WiMax being a blunder in and of itself.
However, WiMax could not have a worse promoter in the US.
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Vaporware? Sure. Quit talking out of your
You have as much creditability as Bagdad Bob. You were probably one of those who said EVDO A would never launch. Then HSPDA would never see the day of light  Why would they run an inferior glorified WIFI network when they could and will launch LTE 
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