Thinking that there's only room in this
town world for either
WiMAX or LTE? Research firm In-Stat would love to disagree, as a new report from it asserts that both will actually
live on for at least the next little while. Unsurprisingly, it's expected that mobile WiMAX will "outpace LTE over the next few years due to its head start on deployments," and potentially more importantly, the company believes that WiMAX and LTE will take "very different paths." In fact, it's stated that most WiMAX support will come from fixed network carriers looking to spruce up their existing offerings, while LTE expansion will likely be pushed solely (or mostly, anyway) by mobile operators. To us, it all boils down to
support, and it only takes a quick survey of the
field to see that LTE has
the most of
that. For better or worse, it seems the next-gen data war is but beginning, even though
we already thought we were nearing the end.
posted Feb 26th 2009 8:39AM
I thought everybody gave up on WiMax, glad some believe
Just like GSM vs. CDMA, the US will adopt competing and mutually incompatible standards and therefore no standard at all, and we will have to build out redundant infrastructure - again. Other places in the world adopted a single technology standard, and then competing on features - our country deploys redundant approaches, which makes neither as prolific as it should be, and spends zillions on building out the dual infrastructure, instead of adding user capabilities.
Head in the sand approach - typical.
Part of the reason that the iPhone is such a success, is that it can be deployed to most of the world. If it were on Verizon, it would be the US, Canada, S. Korea and Japan, and although that is a substantial market, it ain't the world.
Pick regular gauge railroads or narrow gauge, so that you don't have to develop and support 2 different incompatible trains.
Yea, you are right. They should once and for all settle on one standard. Most of the world is on GSM and now 3G.
And that train stuff I didn't know about. Sounds really stupid. Two different systems you say?
Thew only reason they will coexist if because of Intel.
They have shown time and time again they they gladly lose money on technologies they think should win. Like with the Itanium. Intel will keep WiMAX alive and continue pumping money into this. WiMAX may be great technology, but that's not always enough. If Intel dropped out, WiMAX would fell of a cliff in an instant. On Feb 11, 2009 Intel Corporation held a conference call to update every one on their WiMAX business. Or as they call it, 4G WiMAX Mobile Broadband. They are committed to this technology. You can go here if you want to listen to the call: http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/9/101089.html