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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | WiMAX=Motorola Canopy Yep, I've been right. WiMAX is going to be nothing more than an "open" competitor to Motorola Canopy. Fixed wireless only, its dead as mobile wireless, it will be a niche, like iDEN is today. I think the reason Sprint went with WiMAX instead of LTE was that Qualcomm was making special deals with Verizon for cheap CDMA2000/IS-95 equipment, and was giving Sprint the short end of the stick. I'm not sure who owns the Intellectual Property for LTE, I know UTMS/HSDPA is owned by Qualcomm (CDMA the multiple access method patents). | |
| said by patcat88:Yep, I've been right. WiMAX is going to be nothing more than an "open" competitor to Motorola Canopy. Fixed wireless only, its dead as mobile wireless, it will be a niche, like iDEN is today. You shouldn't break your arm patting yourself on the back just yet. Wimax is here now and it works. It's much ballyhooed competitor is still MIA in terms of commercial deployments.
I think the reason Sprint went with WiMAX instead of LTE was that Qualcomm was making special deals with Verizon for cheap CDMA2000/IS-95 equipment, and was giving Sprint the short end of the stick.
No, the reason that Sprint chose Wimax was to fulfill one of the FCC's requirements regarding their merger with Nextel. That condition was that they would not divest any of their 2.5 Ghz holdings but they would deploy a broadband network on that spectrum which would cover 15 million POPS by the end of 2009 and 30 million POPS by the end of 2011. Wimax was ready to be utilized to help Sprint achieve that goal. LTE was not and still is not.
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said by patcat88:Yep, I've been right. WiMAX is going to be nothing more than an "open" competitor to Motorola Canopy. Fixed wireless only, its dead as mobile wireless, it will be a niche, like iDEN is today. For all the reasons we've talked about endlessly, I'm confidant that WiMAX will be more that just a cheaper, faster, open version of Moto's Canopy.
I'm not sure who owns the Intellectual Property for LTE, I know UTMS/HSDPA is owned by Qualcomm (CDMA the multiple access method patents).
That's just it, nobody fully knows the patent licensing situation for LTE.
If it's anything like 3G patent licensing morass, and it looks like it could very well be, then it will be a world of hurt.
Qualcomm has basically extorted the industry of billions, and litigation has continued even recently (Qualcomm vs Broadcom, Qualcomm vs Nokia, etc). As much as $50 per 3G device is paid in patent royalties.
WiMAX has a large patent pool and growing as a hedge against this madness. That doesn't guarantee it won't happen, but it's far less likely compared to the 3GPP world. Where patent licensing is done on a bilateral basis, instead of a multi-lateral basis in the CE industry. | |
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