  TuPaK
join:2002-07-21
San Gabriel, CA | How can Pakistan get a nationwide Wimax rollout and we can't I mean seriously. Xohm is delayed indefinitely and LTE is so far off and going to be funded by the same greedy a-holes that want to restrict our phones and charge us ludicrous rates for everything we do on them.
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join:2002-07-21
San Gabriel, CA | Re: How can Pakistan get a nationwide Wimax rollout and we can't and the reason I bring up Pakistan is because that is my parents home country and last time I visited there I thought I traveled back in time by several decades. | |
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|  Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
join:2002-03-03
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kudos:4 | said by TuPaK:I mean seriously. Xohm is delayed indefinitely and LTE is so far off and going to be funded by the same greedy a-holes that want to restrict our phones and charge us ludicrous rates for everything we do on them. No, i'm not moving. Source of the Pakistan claim?
I see nothing in the links of this story that makes that claim.
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I'm not sure why he'd want to move just to get a particular medium either....but the nature of the free market is competition. Wimax would have to be a mandate for any type of nation-wide plan!
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Hingham, MA | Re: How can Pakistan get a nationwide Wimax rollout and we can't You can have nation-wide competitive spectrum auctions- we just did, but the LTE players won. (And the spectrum won't even be open for another year at least) | |
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Saint Clair Shores, MI | I read it to say he isn't moving. Maybe you should switch your providers as it appears they are loosing packets.  | |
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| Dude, the Dominican republic has WiMax up and running. Mind you that's only about an hour and half flight from from Florida and about 45 mins from Puerto Rico USA.
I used it the last time I visited there.
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St Thomas, VI | wimax grew where? Where did it increase? besides australia where is wimax even in use? | |
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| | | Re: wimax grew where? All over Africa and the eastern block countries. | |
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join:2001-09-10
Barrington, IL | said by MrMaster:Where did it increase? besides australia where is wimax even in use? Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil, France, Poland etc... just to name few... | |
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join:2002-04-05
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kudos:1 | a joke All this Wimax talk is pretty funny. When is LA or NYC going to get this? Aren't they the highest density (pop) in the USA?
Right now Wimax in the USA is as relevant as Cricket, since the only player is Clearwire and their coverage is non-existent, and they don't even use Mobile Wimax, have fun loosing your signal when you go jogging. Wimax is dead as a major technology in this country, its only hope will be as an off the self proprietary wireless last mile system for small WISPs and corporate/govt networks.
Intel still isn't sending out Wimax laptops, so much for a captive/preestablished customer base. | |
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2 edits | Re: a joke and what cities are covered by LTE in the US..........? Any devices out yet that support it??
At least WiMax has had an early start, and has proved itself as a commercially viable technology for broadband. LTE? I have yet to see a large-scale running LTE network in the US. "On paper"/"In planning" translates to nothing more than vaporware, at least in my book.
Face it, based on previous experience, Sprint is much more likely to provide next-gen services faster, than AT&T. LTE from AT&T especially seems like a daydream, given that over half of their network is still EDGE, even in 2008, in a time when 95% of Sprint/Verizon systems are already EVDO Rev0/A. | |
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join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI | Re: a joke said by a333:and what cities are covered by LTE in the US..........? Any devices out yet that support it?? Ouch.. that's going to leave a mark..
Good comeback. Living in a market that was soon to get WiMAX, I'm disappointed that even in a test phase, it's not deployed, the eqp is just sitting at it's CO's and waiting. Seems to me the biggest hold up right now, other then a couple more billion bucks, is the last mile T1's what can't handle the bandwidth demand 4G will put on them. Fibertower can't deploy upgrades fast enough so even if Sprint got the influx of cash it's still looking for (think it's up to 3-4 bill now?), the "logistics" problem Mr Hesse spoke of just might be that little overlooked pipe between the LEC's and it's backbone. I can't wait to see how VZW and/or AT&T are going to overcome their own backhaul problems to towers they "don't own". At least with VZ, it will deploy LTE in a few years, one tower, one town at a time. Having a couple of towers with LTE isn't going to blanket the market  or be something to write home about. | |
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join:2002-04-05
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kudos:1 | Re: a joke What did I say about corporate/govt internet? Towerstream is enterprise/business class and FIXED ONLY, NOT MOBILE. How many junker cars per month will you be paying for pathetic service?
8mbps for $1000 a month. Sure, Xohm is dead out of the water at these prices. »www.towerstream.com/index.asp?ref=home
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