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1 edit | Coverage is high; but customer #'s nowhere to be found The Wimax Forum talks a whole lot about how many people are covered by the technology, but numbers of actual customers are nowhere to be found in their announcement.
»www.wimaxforum.org/resources/mon···y-report
»www.wimaxforum.org/printpdf/1883
I wonder why?  Maybe because the numbers of actual customers is extremely low. I'd like to see comments from them on why that is the case. |
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Springfield, OR | Intel has commented on that; specifically the telecom industry is holding WiMAX back and trying to stifle its' deployment. For some reason or another, PC vendors have also been slow to include the technology in computers.
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kudos:4 | said by w0g:Intel has commented on that; specifically the telecom industry is holding WiMAX back and trying to stifle its' deployment. For some reason or another, PC vendors have also been slow to include the technology in computers. That might help explain Wimax low use in US. But what about the rest of the world. Why no bragging about customer numbers there? |
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said by w0g:Intel has commented on that; specifically the telecom industry is holding WiMAX back and trying to stifle its' deployment. For some reason or another, PC vendors have also been slow to include the technology in computers. The telcom industry "isn't holding WiMAX back" it's the fact that it only works on very few frequencies, none of which are common for Wireless ISPs to use. The big wireless carriers in the US with the exception of Sprint are all going LTE and not mobile WiMax.
As to PC vendors, Sprint/Clearwire is the only large scale (ie national or semi-national) provider so who the hell is going to make a laptop with the chipset in it?
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The reason is because the definition of coverage is a joke just like cellphone companies use, -103 DB for a CDMA phone means if a tree branch moves your call will drop (example »people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/c···all.html ).
No point of pay $50 a month for wimax with dialup speeds and drop outs. Here is an example of a wimax user claiming dialup speeds in india, »forums.techarena.in/india-broadb···4613.htm
Also whats "reached"? Some of the operators of WiMAX on the map are the DOD and FAA, THEY ARE NOT SERVICE PROVIDERS, how many millions covered did they count as? Does every cellphone tower that uses WiMAX as P2P private backhaul mean ever cellphone customer served by that link a wimax customer? |
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