Nokia Will Have WiMax Handsets By 2008
This is interesting...
WiMax != CDMA
WiMax is far easier to deploy than conventional cell towers, so Nokia may be planning on making WiMax-only handsets in the hope that Sprint (or some other carrier) will deploy it widely enough to make those handsets practical.
WiMax is far easier to deploy than conventional cell towers, so Nokia may be planning on making WiMax-only handsets in the hope that Sprint (or some other carrier) will deploy it widely enough to make those handsets practical.
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Roadkill said:
WiMax != CDMA
WiMax is far easier to deploy than conventional cell towers, so Nokia may be planning on making WiMax-only handsets in the hope that Sprint (or some other carrier) will deploy it widely enough to make those handsets practical.
No not at all. In fact if WiMAX is incapable of a n=1 reuse (use every frequecy in every cell) then its will be a lot more difficult to deploy for sprint than a cdma upgrade. My understanding is that WiMAX claims to support reuse of n=1 but can't actually do it.
Under no circumstance is WiMAX any easier to deploy than anything else on a virgin install.
Mark my words Sprint will deploy enough wimax to back out and follow vodafone's lead.
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You mean besides the fact that each tower has 10 times the range of conventional cell towers?
In theory, most major metropolitan areas could be covered by no more than 5 towers.
At any rate, WiMax is still under development. I find it odd that carriers are talking about deploying it this early in its life, but hey I guess that announcing phones a year before they're ready isn't far enough in advance for them any more.
In theory, most major metropolitan areas could be covered by no more than 5 towers.
At any rate, WiMax is still under development. I find it odd that carriers are talking about deploying it this early in its life, but hey I guess that announcing phones a year before they're ready isn't far enough in advance for them any more.
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Roadkill said:
You mean besides the fact that each tower has 10 times the range of conventional cell towers?
In theory, most major metropolitan areas could be covered by no more than 5 towers.
At any rate, WiMax is still under development. I find it odd that carriers are talking about deploying it this early in its life, but hey I guess that announcing phones a year before they're ready isn't far enough in advance for them any more.
Roadkill,
This is faulty intel propaganda. Wimax is range limited compared to CDMA/WCDMA. I'll explain but first lets talk about range in general.
Range on any wireless system is a product of tower height, operating frequency, height and antenna size of subcriber u...
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viper said:...Roadkill said:
WiMax != CDMA
WiMax is far easier to deploy than conventional cell towers, so Nokia may be planning on making WiMax-only handsets in the hope that Sprint (or some other carrier) will deploy it widely enough to make those handsets practical.
No not at all. In fact if WiMAX is incapable of a n=1 reuse (use every frequecy in every cell) then its will be a lot more difficult to deploy for sprint than a cdma upgrade. My understanding is that WiMAX claims to support reuse of n=1 but can't actually do it.
Under no circumstance is WiMAX any easier to deploy than anything else on a virgin install.
Mark my words Sprint will deploy enough wimax to back out and
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Now here's a good question also, will CDMA and WiMax 2.5Ghz band be the same technology???????? Ah heck, I think that's a good question, personally I'm FAR more interesting in the wireless data side of all this, screw the phone side, . . .free me from cables! ! ! !
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Omagus said:
Does that mean that Nokia plans to start making CDMA handsets again?
they never stoped...
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Technically, no. But they did announce that they would and evidence has backed that up. Most Nokia-branded CDMA phones that have been released this year have actually been made by Pantech.
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