| reply to baineschile
Re: Why Bother Two points:
Using a WiFi connection makes the service much more accessible to many more people, lots of people have WiFi built in their laptops, PDAs and phones. At the moment you can only buy a WiMax card, LTE chips are unlikely to be available in wide numbers before 2010 and then companies will still have to test and design products around them.
4G isn't 18 months away, it's years away. The ITU defines 4G as 100 Mbit/s downlink in a moving vehicle, 1 Gbit/s stationary downlink, WiMax and LTE can't do that, the ITU is defining LTE-Advanced and WiMAx 2 (.16m) as 4G. Just because the carriers say these services are "4G" doesn't mean they are.
Dan Jones
Site Editor, Unstrung.com |
