Motorola WiMax Deployments on Track for ‘08 Press release summarizes year end achievements Motorola has issued a press release summarizing the WiMax achievements that they accomplished in 2007. The company’s most prized achievement was the demonstration of “the historic first live mobile WiMAX 802.16e handoffs between continuous WiMAX cells supporting voice, data and multimedia applications” at the World WiMax Conference held in Chicago in in September. They’ve begun deployment of commercial WiMax in numerous countries and are a part of over forty trials currently taking place around the globe. The company also pointed to their partnership with Sprint on Xohm and said that they’re fully set to support the upcoming soft launch. The press release indicates that this means the company is on track for significant WiMax progress in 2008 although they predict much of that taking place in Europe and Asia.
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 | | Handheld device Will Motorola offer ANY handheld device that supports Mobile WiMax? I see no signs of a razrwimax, etc... | |
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Gwinn, MI | Re: Handheld device why would they? Skype on an unlimited data package? pssh. no one would use the handheld device as a cellphone, and everyone and their mother (read, people like us who like to take what we can do with our tech to the utter edge of whats allowable) would be using these things. Motorola, or any other cell phone manufacturer won't release any truly useful wimax handsets until IPv6 becomes the norm. Why, you ask? because then they can market it as a mobile extension of your PC.
Think about it. Makes an eerie kind of sense. Soon, we'll either be in the world of "The Wired" al la "Serial Experiments Lain" or something closer to Shirow Masamune's "Ghost in the Shell" setting.
Either way, it sounds like it'll be a helluva lot of fun ^^
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i used to belive in people.
then i worked in telcom.
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| | | | | Re: Handheld device I can't understand what you're saying except to argue maybe that no one should offer handheld wimax devices. Well, other companies will be offering them, and my question was whether Motorola will offer one. | |
| | | | | | Re: Handheld device Well, considering Nokia already announced that they expressed interest in turning their N series internet tablets into WiMax devises at some point.
So I don't see why Motorola wouldn't, considering they no longer have a semiconductor division that could have produced the Wimax chips for individual handsets. As for speculation I can imagine it would be based of the A1200 Ming.
As for any cyberpunk based future being imminent. We still have a few more technological hurdles in the form of nano robotics and studying brainwaves before that is achievable. | |
| | | | | | Motorola *will* be offering wimax phones, just not in the US. Wimax is a big no-no to their current US cellphone customers (AT&T, VZ, T-Mobile, etc), as they need the end-to-end control over what users can do with the devices.
I know VZ is promising to open up their network, but I doubt if that will include wimax. | |
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| | The foot dragging continues Mobile WiMAX will compete with 3G Data so why would the Telco's want to compete with themselves. They have successfully prevented cellphones with WiFi from proliferating and they will do the same with mobile WiMAX.
I don't think they will be as successful keeping WiMAX from taking away their 3G customers. They will do everything they can to slow it down though. I don't think many people will see Mobile WiMAX available on their phones till at least 2009 | |
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