Comments on: Ask Mr Operator: “When will WiMax become standard for carriers?”

By: free satellite

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By: free satellite

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By: PaulBrannan

PaulBrannan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:58:13 +0000

Is the writing on the wall for mobile carriers? Top piece of why you shouldn't bet the farm on WiMAX: http://tiny.cc/AFXtK

[Original tweet, Topsy page]

By: MarkW

MarkW — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:17:52 +0000

Fascinating stuff, as ever, even from someone without any vested interest other than the device in his hand!

By: South77

South77 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:38:05 +0000

This could've been written 3 years ago. Hey, I predict Usain Bolt will win the 100 M at the bejing olympics!

By: MarkW

MarkW — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:17:52 +0000

Fascinating stuff, as ever, even from someone without any vested interest other than the device in his hand!

By: South77

South77 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:38:05 +0000

This could've been written 3 years ago. Hey, I predict Usain Bolt will win the 100 M at the bejing olympics!

By: Mike42

Mike42 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:30:55 +0000

Spot on Tim – the only financially-feasible use is the originally intended one – as vendor-neutral microwave backhaul. Bring on dem Gigabit Ethernet radio links – we're gonna need them all over the place come LTE time in 2010.

WiMax's 'New Hope' is its raison d'etre.

By: goodygoody2

goodygoody2 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:22:18 +0000

Superb Article Mr. Operater

This kinda stuff should be on the National Curriculum !!

Back in 1998 (As a young 10year old) I was working in a Bluetooth startup. I had previously worked in Motorola and had managed to get onto the Bluetooth SIG Marketing Evengelism team. What I witnessed back then was Intel's unbendable belief to get “their” standard out the door and their ability and willingness to throw money at it to ensure nobody else got into the race.

All Intel are itnerested in is selling their chips and if they've pegged their colours to WiMax you can be sure they will throw money hand over fist at it to make sure that they sell those chips!

Maybe they should just cut their losses and open a Fish'N Chip Shop

By: PaulBrannan

PaulBrannan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:58:13 +0000

Is the writing on the wall for mobile carriers? Top piece of why you shouldn’t bet the farm on WiMAX: http://tiny.cc/AFXtK

By: andyhoops

andyhoops — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:57:20 +0000

Depends on the CPE offered by your WiMAX vendor / operator.

For example...

Another...

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:02:04 +0000

But you still have to use RJ45 plugs when you get to the office, is that
right?

2008/9/3 Disqus <>

By: ben

ben — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:54:41 +0000

The funny thing about this is that it still needs to be said. People were claiming that Wifi would destroy 3G back in 2001 – it was a stupid idea then and it's still a stupid idea.

On the other hand, fixed wimax is pretty decent as a last-mile solution in emerging markets – an alternative to copper for fixed connections.

By: tim

tim — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:34:31 +0000

Rather than just for data, time and again I hear of an African or Asian state being flogged WiMAX as some wonderful alternative to GSM (yes mobile phones using WiMAX!). Quite frankly how many mobiles has anyone seen with WiMAX inbuilt (though a very few do exist). What would in fact be the point of selling expensive WiMAX handsets into an underdeveloped country when GSM/3G handsets are so cheap and ubiquitous.

WiMAX has gone the same way as Iridium (late to market, too much money spent and over taken by other technologies) so there is little chance that it will make much of an impact.

Yet some say there may still be hope for WiMAX as a cheap backhaul when deploying new GSM/WCDMA networks in remote areas. Some also say that Intel can not, will not, let WiMAX fail.