Operators From Both Sides To Cooperate For 4G
Tired of Vendor Politics
That is what this is really about. The operators have formed that group to basically get some influence over the standards process, which has been vendor driven and inefficient.
The operators are sending a message to the vendors: "cut the crap or we will."
Their intent is to influence standards groups. I have not heard of an intent to actually start their own tech.
They could, however, do the latter by commercializing an existing tech and the two front runners have to be 802.16e and FLASH-OFDM. The latter is owned by qualcomm and Q is trying to standardize it in the 802.20 group.
802.l6e is already a standard; it just doesn't work and is no where near ready. Three to four years is enough time but frankly, 802.16e was rushed and...
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The operators are sending a message to the vendors: "cut the crap or we will."
Their intent is to influence standards groups. I have not heard of an intent to actually start their own tech.
They could, however, do the latter by commercializing an existing tech and the two front runners have to be 802.16e and FLASH-OFDM. The latter is owned by qualcomm and Q is trying to standardize it in the 802.20 group.
802.l6e is already a standard; it just doesn't work and is no where near ready. Three to four years is enough time but frankly, 802.16e was rushed and...
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