Poll: Do You Have Faith in WiMAX?

Maureen · Site Admin Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 200

WiMAX has gotten a bad rap lately. It seems like every time we turn around there's another report about the losses faced by the Clearwire investors or another company abandoning their WiMAX plans in favor of LTE. Some folks take this to imply a lack of confidence in the technology, but Sprint and Clearwire are moving right along with their plans.

What do you think? Perhaps its just the tough economy and companies like Clearwire need time to prove that WiMAX is here to stay? Or have too many people given up on WiMAX? Will it last?

xrayman · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:50 pm Post subject:

Faith no, hope yes.

xchpstang · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:33 pm Post subject:

xenophon · 4G User Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 46

Both Sprint and Intel are royally screwing this up. If they seriously want WiMAX to dominate they have to be MUCH more aggressive. While getting coverage is obviously important, they need to get devices out there to the masses right away.

Intel can do this by embedding WiMAX into WiFi chipsets and making only that combo available for laptop makers.

Sprint made a huge mistake offering the EVDO/WiMAX card at $80/month. They need to offer it as the same rate as EVDO and get as many WiMAX devices out there even for markets that don't have it yet. If at the same rate, anyone considering EVDO (Verizon prospects too) would naturally get the combo card. You can only use one or the other network at a time so there's no lost cost resource. This may also encourage/force other EVDO card makers to get into WiMAX if Sprint only sells the combo version.

But that's too logical for Sprint to understand.

xrayman · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:42 am Post subject:

xenophon,
You are 100% correct. Looks like another case when the bean counters have ruled over the sales department or could be the old 3G department has more power than the new 4G data department. Sprint may need to install a common sense czar to control internal politics. In any case Sprint needs to make better marketing decisions if they want to succeed.

Maureen · Site Admin Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 200

Information Week posted an interesting article that included some comments from Motorola's VP, who believes both technologies will succeed. Read more here, and share your thoughts!

vlad1000 · 4G Newbie Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Posts: 6

why, you ask? because....lte will have capped plans...and won't offer unlimited pricing plans....this will be their doom

DeltaSPARTAN003 · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject: WiMax, Sprint/Clear...

This dilemma that we face has come to fruition by only one thing...

The Econemy.

But Clear/Sprint will servive to be #1 in the Wireless telecom world, yes, i mean World Wide.

But, if intel, and Cisco Systems do not exicute on their part. WiMax won't servive.

WiMax is being backed up by big American players:

intel
Cisco Systems
Sprint (a National Security asset, mind you) //That operates and maintains DCSNet and hold's a portion of the internet backbone.
Motorola
Google (can't compete with that, right?)
Microsoft
Apple (with iPhone 4G)
Deutsche Telekom
Samsung

LTE? umm....

GSM Legacy Partners
Nokia
Sony
LG
Ericsson

(and nothing much else...)

wakeman91 · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:51 am Post subject:

iphone 4g huh? Does that come out the same day as the tablet?

LTE also has many of the hardware guys including Cisco.

I'm not arguing in favor of LTE but you need to get your facts straight.

DeltaSPARTAN003 · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:37 am Post subject: LTE Supporters?

Well, I don't see intel or Cisco Systems joining LTE.

Ericsson is LTE's Cisco. For IP infrasteucture.

But, Who's going to be LTE's 'intel'? AMD? ATOM? Yea right.[/b]

wakeman91 · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:00 am Post subject:

Cisco - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns810/statement_of_direction_C22-502484.html

Qualcomm - http://www.qualcomm.com/innovation/research/feature_project/lte.html

Nortel - http://www2.nortel.com/go/solution_content.jsp?segId=0&catId=0&parId=0&prod_id=61700

Intel and Microsoft were both aligned behind HD-DVD

LTE carriers don't have the spectrum they'll need (think ATT 3g iphone)
http://www.sidecutreports.com/2009/11/09/clearwire-gets-more-spectrum-in-auction/

hughes_net@yahoo.com · 4G Newbie Joined: 13 Sep 2010 Posts: 6

Does that come out the same day as the tablet?
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