phoneboy3
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Re: The lab is busy
You read my mind. LOL!
This is just more Telco propaganda designed to cool enthusiasm for Mobile WiMax. A standard that is every bit as good and fast as LTE and at least 3-5 years ahead of it.
Even the Telco's are admiting it won't be available until at least 2010. Looking at history that would mean in reality we are looking at 2012-2015. It will be game over by them IMHO. WiMax already won. The loser just doesn't know it yet. |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
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| There will be winner or loser, they'll both co-exist. This isn't like Bluray/HDDVD fight. It's more like cable vs. dsl, satellite tv vs cable tv. There was no 'winner' in the latter two as the playing field is defined by what resources are available to the provider.
WiMAX will be pushed by IEEE and the consumer electronics industry. LTE will be pushed by the telcom industry. Both will exist long term. |
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wifi4milez
Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY
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| said by xenophon  :There will be winner or loser, they'll both co-exist. This isn't like Bluray/HDDVD fight. It's more like cable vs. dsl, satellite tv vs cable tv. There was no 'winner' in the latter two as the playing field is defined by what resources are available to the provider. WiMAX will be pushed by IEEE and the consumer electronics industry. LTE will be pushed by the telcom industry. Both will exist long term. I agree. It will be like CDMA/GSM is here in the states.
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phoneboy3
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| You mean the CDMA that is pretty much being non-existant outside the US/Canada and is about to be overlayed on the North American CDMA providers networks with the follow on to GSM (HSPA).
So yea it may co-exist for awhile and then LTE will just fade away. I maintain that since Wi-MAX is soooooooo far ahead in this case LTE will never get off the ground. In 3-5 years the ecomomies of scale will take over and Wi-MAX will be much cheaper to deploy compared to LTE it just won't make ecomomic sense to deploy a completely separate technology. They will probably, at the very least, try make LTE more like Wi-MAX so the equipment is more compatible. |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
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said by phoneboy3 :
You read my mind. LOL!
This is just more Telco propaganda designed to cool enthusiasm for Mobile WiMax. A standard that is every bit as good and fast as LTE and at least 3-5 years ahead of it.
Even the Telco's are admiting it won't be available until at least 2010. Looking at history that would mean in reality we are looking at 2012-2015. It will be game over by them IMHO. WiMax already won. The loser just doesn't know it yet.
 Yep.. your are right on target. People talk about the DEEP pockets of VZW and AT&T but they don't seem to realize that if they were SERIOUS about all this, they would put the money behind it and RUSH it out just to stunt WiMAX's growth. But while it's still in the LAB and YEARS away from REAL-LIFE use, guess they just don't want to reach down and dig deep..  |
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