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- booshack, on 03/27/2008, -0/+13,and Craig McCaw’s Clearwire.
- ennTOXX, on 03/27/2008, -2/+15I want my WiMax... :||
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -1/+11WiMax is awesome.
- joeanon, on 03/27/2008, -0/+9WiMAX is awesome if you have an imagination and realize the world is moving to portable internet platforms.
Why would ever compare cable and wimax ? Why not compare dialup and a T1. Cmon.. get a clue people. WiMAX is for portability, cable has... a cable. There are not competing technologies.
Many rural customers don't have DSL or Cable in the US still... like me.
I have EVDO wireless.. or dialup.
Like most articles, they are written by people who are most influenced by city economies. So, to many of them, wireless data services are just stupid. Why not just get a wifi service right...
Nah, I think the cellular providers are in a perfect position. Look at the iPhone, sure it's overprices, but it shows people want more PC like power in their cell phone... or at least.. portable internet (that's what I want not a phone/pda all in one).
To me a phone is a thing to be avoided. But.. a portable internet device is a dream come true.
So I use my phone.. as a phone.. simple cheaper, rugged, utilitarian. I always get the free model and always wind up half destroying in by the end of my 2 years, at which point they give me a new free phone.
If I bought an internet device I would hope it lasted more than two years. SO, if I combined my phone and my internet device... chances are I will pay more and have an inferior phone merely for the convenient of having one bulk device instead of two smaller ones.
Apple, should have leverage the iPod into a mobile platform... not simple a mobile phone. Not saying they aren't going that of course. Phone are very popular and sell well, but it's a dumb budiness model to try to compete with asian phone makers. They will just copy and own you.
Plus since phones are mostly disposable why tie your internet device, which isn't, into your phone.
Makes no sense other than the theory that people have tiny bodies and therefore their pockets and purses cannot hold more than an iPhone. OR perhaps if you cant to talk and surf.. oh but wait. OR maybe if you want to surf and talk ??
Hmm but I guess that would actually be easier with a two separate devices. Oh plus it wouldn't get as hot.
Just have your PDA get internet from your bluetooth and make PDAs that are cheaper and meant for surfing. The modular market is more desirable and you don't ever want to link your PDA to your phone unless money is no object, but when selling things, money is always an object.
Maybe once they are giving away iPhones for free, I'll stop complaining, but otherwise, no way I'm paying for a buy bulky cell phone with a tiny display because it can display tiny video or tiny internet. - DeFex, on 03/27/2008, -0/+7Wimax base station should be sold to anyone like a wifi router. then we could free ourselves from the ***** ISPs and their throttling policies.
- poidh, on 03/27/2008, -0/+7They're going to merge with it twice apparently.
- MacTyler, on 03/27/2008, -0/+6I think this would be really cool if it happened.and Craig McCaw’s Clearwire
- ayeroxor, on 03/27/2008, -0/+6Giggity...
- betterth, on 03/27/2008, -0/+6Because the data speeds of current 3G networks (which are not nationwide) and 2.5G networks (which are nationwide) are much lower than WiMax speeds.
Why invest billions into expanding 3G when they invest billions into something that will be faster and more robust. - battletux, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4If you've not heard about it yet then you must be spending too much time away from the Internets.
Depending on the way you look at it, that's either a good thing or a bad thing. - ayeroxor, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4NEVER cross the streams! Imagine every cell in your body exploding at the speed of light.
- Iravan, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4I believe that WiMax will not be as beneficial in countries with existing cable infrastructure. However, it will work miracles in developing countries such as India.
- ayeroxor, on 03/27/2008, -2/+6and Craig McCaw’s Clearwire
- NinjaPirateDude, on 03/27/2008, -2/+5because adding a wire to wi-fi would mean wi-fi being wired........
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -4/+7If cable and wimax are mixed, it will blow like a bomb explosion just like the snapshot which thanks to digg image capture is chopped off.
- TheSexyGeek, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3I work for a WiMAX ISP. While I can't comment much on the state of WiMAX in the USA, The claim by the author that WiMAX is going nowhere fast shows his ignorance. WiMAX is growing steadily. I also think it's unfair to rate WiMAX as a mobile platform since the mobile standard, 802.16e which allows for roaming and seamless handover has only just been implemented. Most WiMAX ISPs outside the USA are running on 802.16d which, as the author said, is more suited for fixed wireless broadband access. And in that capacity it works exceedingly well.
In the city, WiMAX offers an alternative to wired infrastructure that is very resilient. The average consumer may not go gaga over WiMAX in it's current form, but from an ISP/Enterprise perspective, it's doing it's job quite well.
WiMAX as a mobile standard will take a while to mature and is dependent on end-user devices supporting it. This will take a while to get in the hands of consumers. It'll be interesting to see how things develop. - EphemeralFox, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3"Why not just beef up the cellular data capabilities to be handle high volumes of data traffic?"
I would like to hear your obviously well informed opinion on how to accomplish this... Oh wait. You don't know what you're talking about. The infrastructure used by current cellular networks [CDMA (EVDO), GSM (WCDMA)] to provide data services is incapable of providing anything close to the speed and bandwidth of traditional broadband connections. Providing such speeds and bandwidth for mobile data services requires new network technology, one of which is WiMax. With a full WiMax network you can provide both excellent high speed data service and voice service by way of VOIP. WiMax isn't an attempt to reinvent the wheel as you assert, it is simply a up and coming mobile communications standard to solve the deficiencies of our older network types. - hakamanakus, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Dugg for the comments, seems like we have some Diggers with more knowledge of wireless tech than this article's author... I like how this guy talks about companies like Intel "sinking" money into WiMax and other companies having already given up. He didn't do any research on WiMax in countries like Korea? I guess they call it WiBro or something there, I guess that could have thrown off this guy's google (re)search?
- TheSexyGeek, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Are you willing to license some spectrum for that base station? I hear it's expensive.
- morphinism, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2WiMax is one of the ways to "beef up the cellular data capabilities to better handle high volumes of data traffic". The companies already make wireless cards for laptops, EVDO, and I believe you can even get them built in by Dell. The current technologies are considered 3G, WiMax is one of the 4G (4th generation) technology.
- ayeroxor, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1and Craig McCaw’s Clearwire
- dcmcderm, on 03/27/2008, -8/+3I still can't buy in to the WiMax concept. Why do we need to build this massive system when the infrastructure for wireless data access already exists? Seriously. Why not just beef up the cellular data capabilities to better handle high volumes of data traffic? Then the cellular carriers could make wireless cards for laptops the next must have gadget or better yet start getting them built in to laptops? I have an external USB wireless card right now and it is so unbelievably useful (I just don't know how I used to go without email while camping...pathetic I know). It's an untapped market that already has all the pieces in place, just needs more exposure. WiMax is trying to reinvent the wheel in my opinion.
- mal1964, on 03/27/2008, -8/+3She was born from a rag-tag
group of dreamers. Scrappers who felt
there should be more coming from a TV
than three repetitive channels with a
scratchy, pasty picture.
She grew up with just the blood, sweat and
tears of backbreaking work.
Town-to-town. Phone pole-to-phone pole.
Door-to-door.
Cable … she succeeded like America did.
The struggle took years.Technology that
failed, then flickered … and then
changed the world.
The men and women who brought cable to
life risked everything they had … - louiebaur, on 03/27/2008, -9/+2Wtf is WiMax and why haven't I heard of it before now?
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