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| Will the real WiMax please stand up ? I have to wonder about the statistics of WiMax deployments.
Here in Canada, in the late 1990s, Microcell started Inukshuk with some wireless internet (forget the protocol name). Things unraveled, and Bell Canada bought half of it, and marketed the service as "WiMax" (even though it wasn't WiMax and WiMax hadn't been commercially deployed yet).
Bell has since been told to stop marketing that service as "WiMax".
So I have to wonder if thst 650 million people coverage is really for the current intel mobile WiMax protocol, or if it encompasses the many predecessors that were used as inspirartion to build the real WiMax. In the later case, the number is meaningless since old equipment/protocols is not compatible with real WiMax.
It is pretty clear that Wi-Max will not win for the mobile phone market. But it may have a good market niche for data communications services (think FedEx/UPS with their hand held devices).
The big question is what will happen to Sprint's mobile services. Will they survive if they stick to CDMA and WiMax when there won't be many handsets built to suppor that ? |
