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Re: Completed? By 2014? said by en102:In the end... Sprint has TONS of 2.5GHz spectrum for WiMAX.. and little cash to deploy, and it is more of a niche standard at the moment. VZW has lots of cash, and a national 700MHz license (less spectrum to use though), and a large existing network to use as a base. Also, LTE is the natural evolution of GSM/UTMS and CDMA2000 technologies on a global scale. Personally, I'd use what ever serves my area (neither do on LTE/WiMAX) and comes with few strings and is cheaper than cable/DSL. WiMAX a niche? As opposed to LTE which has not been deployed anywhere other than for these PR stunts?
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 en102Canadian, eh?
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Valencia, CA | While WiMAX is being deployed, and LTE has not, people made the same argument on UMTS/HSPA vs. EVDO.
»www.3gamericas.org/index.cfm?fus···geid=322
While there are a lot of WiMAX commitments, many incumbent telcos globally have put their money to moving to LTE.
»www.3gamericas.org/documents/LTE···2009.pdf
WiMAX has lower cost of deployment (a good thing) behind it.
Who knows - it may be the next Linux of the wireless world, but I suspect that the economies of scale will pump money into LTE.
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| Wrong! Economies of scale don't fix the licensing costs of LTE that are not required for WiMAX. Ultimately LTE is all about giving the consumer less control, less choice, higher cost. LTE is all about more benefits for Telcos and less for consumers! |
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038xx | said by phoneboy3 :
Ultimately LTE is all about giving the consumer less control, less choice, higher cost. LTE is all about more benefits for Telcos and less for consumers! That seems an argument for why LTE will trump. To see small locally run WiMAX start-ups in rural areas would be wonderful and the best use of Fed stimulus funds. But the big boys would work to trounce, they already have the customer base via voice, and commercial funding for start-ups is hard to come by ATM.
These are the dynamics which make others fall on the LTE side. BTW, you mention license fees. Who owns LTE technology and are the fees scaled to bulk? Would be interesting to know if there is any telco interest on the receiver end of fee income - even if it's merely large chunks of stock investment.
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