AT&T CEO Says It Will Deliver 20Mbps Downloads
Top message: EVDO, WI-MAX? by ninja2205
Replying to: Wimax by stoopered
Re: Wimax
The range advantage of WiMax is very significant, especially in large (read: US, China) or underdeveloped countries. Setting up a WiMax network should be cheaper and easier.
Personally, I don't think the speed difference is going to matter. In either case we're talking several multiples of the speed of cable modems, and at least for me a cable modem is pretty close to good enough. I'm not going to care if 4G is 10x or 15x the speed of a cable modem... either is plenty fast.
The biggest advantage of LTE as I see it is that it isn't defined yet, which means that by the time they're done with the definition there may be new, cool features added to it that might be difficult to retrofit onto the already existing WiMax definition. But that's pure speculation.
Personally, I don't think the speed difference is going to matter. In either case we're talking several multiples of the speed of cable modems, and at least for me a cable modem is pretty close to good enough. I'm not going to care if 4G is 10x or 15x the speed of a cable modem... either is plenty fast.
The biggest advantage of LTE as I see it is that it isn't defined yet, which means that by the time they're done with the definition there may be new, cool features added to it that might be difficult to retrofit onto the already existing WiMax definition. But that's pure speculation.
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