xenophon
join:2007-09-17 | reply to DaveNJ
Re: Another Minority tech
LTE is more proprietary than WiMAX. LTE is about carrier control. WiMAX is more open and has a much better chance getting into consumer devices than LTE.
LTE will become a closed form of telcom communism. WiMAX is for the people. |
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DaveNJ
No Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
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| said by xenophon  :LTE is more proprietary than WiMAX. LTE is about carrier control. WiMAX is more open and has a much better chance getting into consumer devices than LTE. LTE will become a closed form of telcom communism. WiMAX is for the people. This is completely false. LTE and WiMax are transport methods. CDMA, GSM etc can all be open, its just the carriers choose to enforce carrier locks. Wimax is just a transport method, its no more locked, or unlocked then any other method. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to xenophon
This has to be the greatest misuse of the word "communism" ever made. |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17 | reply to DaveNJ
I'm talking more about the business model, not the technology. The technologies are both essentially OFDM. The carrier controlled business model of LTE is not as open as the WiMAX business model. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Definately. The most locked today is the CDMA business model, followed by GSM and iDEN
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17 | reply to EPS
Hehe.. I got carried away.  |
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DaveNJ
No Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
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said by xenophon :I'm talking more about the business model, not the technology. The technologies are both essentially OFDM. The carrier controlled business model of LTE is not as open as the WiMAX business model. Right. The transport method is completely independent of the business model. Hence Wimax is no more open, then any other wireless interface tech.
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
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| I'll be more specific next time... the way WiMAX is being deployed is more open with less ability for carrier control. LTE will continue to be carrier controlled.
You can argue the semantics but the bottom line is that the WiMAX ecosystem is designed to be put onto any consumer device with no involvement of carriers, like WiFi. LTE is not heading down that path and will still likely have carriers in control.
I could see WiMAX on generic MP3 players, gps devices, PSP/gameboy, etc. The makers don't have to deal with the carriers. I don't see LTE on such devices (broadly) long term. |
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Quemann
@comcast.net
| Personally, I am with WiMAX in terms of its openness, interoperability and other potentials. LTE is yet to be born and will be commercially available around 2015. On the other hand, WiMAX has got a big success in South Korea and was incorporatted into ITU standard last year. The future of LTE is uncertain now becasue it is yet to be born. What a silly idea that ATT&T and Verizon boast of unborn babies.
WiMAX or LTE, mobile carriers are to gradually lose their market muscle since convergence of telecom, media, entertainment and advertising industries into mobile multimedia is dynamically under way. Besides, Nokia's upstream initiative, based on GPS, mobile gaming and multimedia networking advantages, will choke mobie carriers'
product portfolio strategy. Google's OHA alliance and other mobile platforms will significantly weaken carriers' gatekeeper status. Technology affilication may set the future of corporate giants. AT&T and Verizon have got plenty of time until they may start deploying 4G networks and may switch from LTE to a newer 4G or whatsoever later on. And even SK Telecom, one of the two commercially successful WiMAX carriers, has already advanced into US territory in the name of Helio, waiting until a tipping point pops up. Rumors are Intel will pump $2 billion into the Sprint/Clearwire deal, but late last year SK Telecom offered a $5 billion investment to Sprint. It remains to be seen whether telecom oligarchy will last nd until when. |
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