AT&T Moves to Block Xohm, Clearwire Merger
My thoughts....
2. It makes sense for ATT to throw a road block because the longer they can keep Sprint tangled the more time they have to get LTE out to the market to compete head to head with Sprint.
3. LTE is suppose to be used by many GSM carriers, while WiMax will not, so what does that mean. That ATT and Verizon are looking at world strategies and not only US market. Vodafone is trying to clean up the mess that Verizon did by selling Verizon Latin America. This is also similar to CDMA vs. GSM, CDMA is a supperior technology, but the reality is it's not a world standard and no way Vo...
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Roadkill said:
You're making a couple of rash assumptions when you say that WiMax will catch up with LTE by the time LTE launches... first that WiMax will be able to catch up to the current LTE definition in that time, and second that LTE itself won't also advance during that time.
Not quite sure I follow your comments. WiMax most certainly will launch before LTE. Or are you talking about technically aspects rather than timetable?
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On the processor front, I suspect it won't be a problem. But that's just a guess. My gut feeling is that the advances being made to desktop processors are going to rapidly transition over to mobile units as well, probably by the time that 4G is widespread.
Something almost has to change... there's no way that current processors would be able to keep up with the volume of data that 4G will be able to transmit.
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Or are YOU now assuming that it's actually going to be deployed nationwide? 😉
miacol said:...
1. WiMax and LTE are similar to each other, if you google them and read about them you can see how similar the technologies are. Also Engadget published an article.
2. It makes sense for ATT to throw a road block because the longer they can keep Sprint tangled the more time they have to get LTE out to the market to compete head to head with Sprint.
3. LTE is suppose to be used by many GSM carriers, while WiMax will not, so what does that mean. That ATT and Verizon are looking at world strategies and not only US market. Vodafone is trying to clean up the mess that Verizon did by selling Verizon Latin America. This is also similar to CDMA vs. GSM, CDMA is a supperior technology, but the reality is it's n
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