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True Broadband is Coming For Business

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:00:35 -0400

Whether it's in a year or two, whether it's WiMax or LTE, true broadband is coming to enteprises. blog.tmcnet.com...lte-wimax-for-incumbent-carriers.asp

Nortel picked LTE because they were DE-SELECTED from WiMax

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:33:42 -0400

The WiMax biz went to Motorola, Samsung and Nokia....Nortel was never even a player. Boo-hoo.... www.networkworld.com/news/2007/032706-should-nortel-exit.html They are also in bed with Verizon and will support anything they do.....like tell the world WiMax is bad, LTE is good, to further Verizon's business agenda. What they don't tell you is that the carriers (Verizon, AT&T) fear WiMax because it will be an OPEN standard. This is why Google is behind it and Verizon is not. Verizon wants a "locked down" market where all devices are controled by Verizon. Clearwire & Google want an open market and don't care......just login to the WiMax network with whatever divice and pay a fee for usage of the network and Google gets the portal and eyeballs for their ads.

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WIMAX and LTE- Lean towards the rainbow on the Horizon!

Amitabh — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:19:01 -0400

WiMAX and LTE One of the most common issues of discussion one finds today in either WiMAX or 3G fora are the technology growth path, will it be LTE or Mobile WiMAX? In fact this question has also led to a considerable debate amongst the regulators in different countries as it has a bearing on the way future resources such as spectrum need to be allocated. It must be said at the outset that the LTE is the path most carriers ( 3G and CDMA) are planning to follow for the present, at least till they can see something better in Mobile WiMAX. All the carriers have been following the 3GPP ( and 3GPP2) upgrade paths, which now at HSUPA and EV-DO will take them to LTE and UMB.

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LTE - Theory and Promise = vaporware today

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:29:26 -0400

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.

Full Speed Ahead for US WiMAX

Craig Mathias — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:04:03 -0400

As I first noted back in January, Sprint is in fact now officially spinning off its WiMAX project as a joint venture with Clearwire (and that's the name of the new company), Comcast, Time-Warner, Intel, Google (that's interesting) and others. This should given the new company enough money to build out many US markets, so WiMAX really is coming to town, perhaps in 2010. Note that LTE should appear around the same time, so any talk of WiMAX having a lead in time-to-market should at this point be moot.

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LTE vs. WiMAX - A Contest or Not?

Craig Mathias — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:45:22 -0400

Nokia's announcement of the WiMAX version of the N810 this week at the CTIA show in Las Vegas lifted the curtain on yet another poorly-kept secret. Rumored for some time, the Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition is pretty much an N810 with a WiMAX radio added. As I've noted before, I really like the N810 (the version without WiMAX; I've not tried the new one), and I expect it to do well - once there's a US WiMAX network to run it on. In the meantime, BTW, the WiMAX N810 also has Wi-Fi and GPS - enough to keep you busy until service comes to your neighborhood.

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Cisco working with two carriers to test content delivery platform supporting wired and wireless devices

Cisco Subnet — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:18:26 -0500

Unstrung - the news Web site that was the first to publish speculation that Cisco was eyeing up WiMAX base station vendor Navini for purchase - is now reporting that Cisco is working with one North American and one international Tier-1 operator to test a "network delivery system that can push applications and content over 'any network' to 'any device' - wired or wireless." Details are sparse as to what the technology involves and who the partners are, but Unstrung reports that the system is "intende

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Verizon Goes with LTE

Craig Mathias — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:48:11 -0500

Tired of stories about Verizon yet? It's a sign of a well-run company that they manage their PR in such a way so as to continually attract as much attention as possible. First it was openness for devices and networks, and now it's their selection of the 3GPP's Long Term Evolution (LTE) (new name still needed here) technology as their 4G direction. This news was not all that unexpected - Vodaphone, the other owner (45%) of Verizon Wireless, is a GSM/UMTS carrier and will obviously go with LTE. And CDMA is on the way out as the basis for future broadband technologies anyway, to be replaced by OFDM, the basis of LTE (and many others).

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Why There Will Be No Single Wireless Broadband Technology

Craig Mathias — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:30:39 -0500

One of the great frustrations for many of us is having a wireless device but, in a given location and at a given moment in time, no connectivity - especially while others around you are merrily e-mailing away. Why can't we have just one big wireless network, you lament, based on one Great and Powerful wireless technology? Do we really need UMTS, CDMA2000, and WiMAX, diluting investment and coverage? Well, the challenge with having a single Great and Powerful wireless technology has its roots in the formerly powerful, if not so great, Soviet Union, and that is my topic for today. Wireless and communism - together at last.

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