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@qwest.net | Nokia Says No WiMax Until 2008 lol, i'm glad i don't own nokia stock. | |
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Fatal Vector
join:2005-11-26
| Re: Sounds like a good plan
After all, how many wifi "standards" can consumers support? The only ones currently who MIGHT care about faster speed is the corporations and I'm sure thry are getting sick of "upgrading" over and over like they used to do with computers. By the way...What ever happened to the CPU speed race? Did we hit a practical limit, or, was it just that the gravy train from the corporate "upgrading" dried up and blew away? Perhaps a combination of both? It's nice theough, since the price of computers and peripherals went into free fall into the bargain basement. But then, that's what happens inevitably when marketing hype is used too long. | |
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SDKiwi
VIP
join:2002-05-27
El Cajon, CA | Re: Sounds like a good plan The Nokia comments about fixed Wi-Max support in 2006 and possibly mobile Wi-Max support in 2008 is quite reasonable and consistent with when standards approved equipment should be available. | |
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
Premium
join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX
| I wish some companies would wake up I've stated a number of times that companies out there are not looking at the options given them. We have HSPDA, Edge, 1xRTT, EVDO, EVDO RevA along with a myriad mix of older technology. WiMax even at 30 miles coverage beats any of the new technologies that rely on the strenght of the cellular signal. EvDO is laggy to the point it's only useful for non real time stuff like websurfing. FlashOFDM seemed to solve this but it never got off the ground.
WiMax can answer all of these questions and if cellular providers would stop breastfeeding off companies like Qualcomm and actually go with a technology that can actually perform.
WiMax alone can make cellular networks impervious to interruption from anything but a nuclear weapon discharge. Provide ample bandwidth for the most demanding office applications and provide coverage to areas that typically have never been served at all.
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| | cmaenginsb
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-19
Palmdale, CA | Re: I wish some companies would wake up Looks like you've bought into the hype. 30 mile Wimax is only possible with line of sight and fixed antennas. The mobile Wimax standard is actually only around 5 miles coverage.
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| jdir
join:2001-05-04
Santa Clara, CA | WiMAX is the same as VaporMax Yeah - VaporMax - you hear it here first  | |
| | brianiscool
join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL | Re: WiMAX is the same as VaporMax Nokia makes too much money. They don't have to rush into anything like Bellsouth for example.... LOL | |
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@qwest.net
| Re: WiMAX is the same as VaporMax Nokia makes too much money, now that deserves an LOL on it's own...
first of all, why do you think i started off with, i'm glad i don't own nokia stock and second, i agree w/ one thing you have to say here and that is that vapormax is slang for wimax however, even if nokia did have too much money then why isn't the "nokia" name on every cell phone/ mobile device today or at least 93% of them and have a liquid cash reserve of over 60 billion dollars?
case in point, uh, let's try Windows on pc's and laptops, now, when nokia owns again...approx 93% of the cell phone market globally then you can say they make too much money, NOT. | |
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Dr Demento
I Vant Blud
join:2002-01-02
Denville, NJ
2 edits | Re: WiMAX is the same as VaporMax Ok so other companies will jump in where Nokia is hesitant about going into.
If I know one cellphone, among other devices, making company that has made a cellphone for every network as, including PCS and the obscure i-Den as well as making one of the first cellphones as well know it period is Motorola who would be one of the first to support WiMAX, at least in the US. Other candidates could be Samsung, who would surely start turning out devices for South Korea's WiBRO and perhaps Kyocera. | |
| sirhailstone
join:2001-12-01
Indianapolis, IN
| As bad as Nokia fouled up.... Rooftop Communications in their mesh networking on 2.4 GHz band, they don't deserve to become a player in the WiMAX area.
They buy Rooftop, Rooftop had a good concept but terrible packaging. They go silent for 2, maybe three years developing their mesh wireless system. They roll it out and it's slow, and they refused to support the ISP's that rolled it out (I worked for one who rolled it out) and it's all proprietary hardware and software. You would think after a couple of years they would develop something worth having.
Then suddenly without warning, Nokia pulls the plug. No more spare parts, no more units available. Just dump the entire platform. Almost cost us the entire business. Then Motorola comes out with something that's comparable and works better than Nokia, but non-mesh.
So that's why you won't see me buying a Nokia mobile phone ... ever! | |
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Sounds like a good plan