WiMax, Metro-Fi More Energy Efficient Than 3G So says ABI Research, anyway... According to ABI Research, "From a pure coverage perspective WiMAX is twice as energy-cost-effective and metro Wi-Fi is 50 times more energy-cost-effective than WCDMA. When data traffic is factored into the equation, WiMAX can accommodate 11 times today's average data consumption and still be more energy-cost-efficient compared to WCDMA or HSDPA." According to the group, there's a lot of power that will be chewed up by these services in the years to come; global mobile broadband energy use will rise from 42.8 billion kilowatt hours (KWh) in 2005 to 124.4 billion KWh in 2011.
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 patcat88 join:2002-04-05 Jamaica, NY kudos:1 | why? What does Wimax have technology wise that 3G does to let it not use so much power? modulation methods? spectrum? transission power? | |
|  |  en102Canadian, eh? join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA | Re: why? I suspect this is on the base station end... Sure a WiMAX base station will cover a large area, and doesn't use a whole lot of power. Standard cells are 1-3 miles apart. The power consumption comes from having multiple sites. Also, do WiMAX phones/data cards use more power than cell phones ?
eg. AMPS uses a lot of power iDEN uses a lot of power (short battery life) CDMA (1x/EVDO) is more efficient (power control) GSM (TDMA) is more efficient yet (less cpu power usage than CDMA) | |
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 intellerSociopaths always win. join:2003-12-08 Tulsa, OK | let me know when I can get wimax everywhere I can 3G... ....until then I plan on gobbling up lots of power to get 3G speeds whereever I go. -- "WHEN THE LAUGH TRACK STARTS THEN THE FUN STARTS!" | |
|  |  | | Re: let me know when I can get wimax everywhere I can 3G... Let me know too! So far 3G has been good to me.
Let me know when those Metro WIFI signals can do well inside of large buildings too. | |
|  |  |  Mutiny32Network Security Engineer join:2000-07-04 Lees Summit, MO | Re: let me know when I can get wimax everywhere I can 3G... WiMax will most likely be the next global standard as opposed to the two standards we have today, which is GSM and CDMA because its open licensing scheme and ability to operate on pretty much any frequency you want to run it on. | |
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