DaveNJ
No Fear
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New Jersey
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Re: WiMax is better...
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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kapil
The Kapil
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Chicago, IL
| said by DaveNJ :sprint blunders 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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| 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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