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Is Wimax toast....?

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  • 06-08-2010 2:32pm
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    Mr_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭


    Bad news for Imagine...?
    Just as HD-DVD lost its format war to Blu-ray, WiMax is losing the 4G wireless format war to a rival technology called LTE. And LTE just scored another victory, as Clearwire (CLWR) announced it will begin a LTE trial this fall in Phoenix.

    Until now, Clearwire -- whose backers include Sprint Nextel (S), Intel (INTC), Comcast (CMCSA), and Google (GOOG) -- was the lone major US wireless carrier to put its weight behind WiMax, mostly because when Sprint's 4G plans were first announced in 2006, WiMax was all that existed.

    Since then, the other major US wireless companies -- AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ), T-Mobile (DTEGY.PK), etc. -- have all put their weight behind LTE, snubbing WiMax.

    So it makes a lot of sense of Clearwire to switch over to LTE if it's technically possible. It's becoming the worldwide standard, and it'll always be easier to get the best and latest devices for LTE, and not for WiMax.

    The WiMax technology may still be useful for enterprise use, or for carriers themselves to use to send wireless data from point to point. But LTE has won the consumer format war, and we expect Clearwire to switch over, or at least to offer LTE-WiMax hybrid service, if its tests prove that to be technically possible.

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/219090-is-wimax-toast

    M.


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    yes. MOBILE WiMax is dying... see article

    Intel has / is buying Infineon's GSM/3G/LTE division.
    http://www.techtir.ie/watty/mobile_wimax_dying


    Fixed Wireless using Mobile or Fixed WiMax protocol is doing OK and is likely to live on.


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Last gasps of Mobile WiMax.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/16/se_clearwire/

    Imagine for sure is not going to get any more money or wimax support from Intel.

    Motorola has sold the division doing the Imagine WiMax bases to Nokia Siemens Networks, who are really only interested in selling GSM to 3G/HSPA upgrades and LTE.


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