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For the past year, WiMAX has been a technology under siege.
It has faced criticism as an unreliable and untested technology, and not only from promoters of the rival High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technologies.
Read a primer on WiMAX, 3G and 4G.
Earlier this year, Garth Freeman, the CEO of Australian WiMAX operator Buzz Broadband, described his experience with the technology as a “disaster” and cited problems such as latency, jitter and poor indoor service. While WiMAX equipment vendor Airspan claimed that Buzz Broadband’s poor WiMAX experience was due more to the company cutting corners in its deployment than to the technology itself, Freeman’s anti-WiMAX tirade generated unwelcome negative publicity at a time when the technology experienced delays in some of its key deployments.
Additionally, the recent corporate upheaval at Sprint Nextel, which has been WiMAX’s chief booster among U.S. carriers, has also added to the uncertainty surrounding WiMAX in the United States. In particular, the company’s commitment to the technology was questioned after former CEO Gary Forsee, who was instrumental in the company’s decision to invest in WiMAX, stepped down in October. Months later, interim Sprint CEO Paul Saleh suggested that the company could spin off its WiMAX division to concentrate more fully on customer service and on improving its basic wireless offerings. And at around the same time, Sprint announced it had terminated its original letter of intent to build out a nationwide WiMAX network with Clearwire.
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| The Sprint-Clearwire soap opera Now that Sprint and Clearwire have finally sealed the deal on their partnership to build out a nationwide WiMAX network, here's a look back at the events that led up to forming the $14.5 billion WiMAX venture. |
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These persistent questions about WiMAX led Sprint’s Xohm CTO Barry West to hit back at WiMAX skeptics at a Wireless Communications Association conference last month. Noting that it would be at least two years before LTE services and devices hit the wireless market, West accused LTE-adopting companies of “not having anything to offer” and of “trashing the system that’s out there working.”
Oooops, forgot the fact checker here....By Wirelessbitz on May 13, 2008, 2:27 pmAgreed that Redman is smoking something. VoIP is not a suitable transport mechanism for voice? Are you kidding me? Why did Skype cost billions?? The progress TODAY...
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Garth FreemanBy Anonymous on May 8, 2008, 7:22 pmHow long will you use Garth Freeman to continue beating up Wimax? His story should have come and gone way before now. Continuing it this long suggests you may have...
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WiMAX growning pains continuedBy Craig G. on May 8, 2008, 4:38 pmSounds like growing pains experienced with initial cell phone use or even land lines back in the day. Or cable TV infancy issues? Will it be like Bluetooth technolgy...
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what the?By Anonymous on May 8, 2008, 3:48 pmwhat is Redman smoking? Like "only supporting voice via IP" is a limitation? Seems to be the way the rest of the world is moving. TMobile has a whole initiative...
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