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LTE - Theory and Promise = vaporware today

It never ceases to amaze me how some companies will tout a product as the be all and end all of a market, the absolutely gotta have item, and yet you cannot buy the product today. It is a shell game. Yes, it looks good. Yes, it has great potential. But do you honestly believe that the competition is simply going to roll over, give up or cry uncle when it already has an extremely reliable and viable product already in the marketplace and almost two years to tweak it? This is clearly a page torn from the Microsoft Business Plan. Yet another example of using the easily convinced, uneducated public to drive up demand before a product has been released. It's just shameful.

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agree. 3GPP is set to freeze Rel-8 with LTE/SAE by the end of th

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agree. 3GPP is set to freeze Rel-8 with LTE/SAE by the end of this year but it will be a long long time before the bugs have been sorted out and something is deployable.

Nortel Leading

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Nortel projects to have a deployable LTE product in the field by Q2 09 for carriers.

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