MetroPCS Hops on LTE Bandwagon
Companies that already use Wimax or will use Wimax
Here is a link which shows the companies on board with Wimax, keep in mind not every company is listed:
http://www.wimaxforum.org/about/Current_Members/ »
Also, many of these companies are in other countries where Wimax is live!
In practical terms, WiMAX would operate similar to WiFi but at higher speeds, over greater distances and for a greater number of users. WiMAX could potentially erase the suburban and rural blackout areas that currently have no broadband Internet access because phone and cable companies have not yet run the necessary wires to those remote locations....
A WiMAX system consists of two parts:
* A WiMAX tower, similar in concept to a cell-phone tower - A single WiMAX tower can provide coverage to a very large area -- as big as 3,000 square miles (~8,0
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In fact, Motorola developed a chipset that can make seamless handoffs between CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev.A and LTE. I don't think any CDMA/WiMAX chipsets have been developed yet.
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/en/news-12752-SPH-P9 ... »
Those chips were developed years ago, my cousin works for Samsung US, he went to the Mobile WiMax Summit 2006 in South Korea, the SPH P9000 was demoed.
This device does have seamless transfer! A similar Samsung device will be available on the Sprint Wimax network next year.
scorpio said:
You: "I don't think any CDMA/WiMAX chipsets have been developed yet."
Those chips were developed years ago, my cousin works for Samsung US, he went to the Mobile WiMax Summit 2006 in South Korea, the SPH P9000 was demoed.
This device does have seamless transfer! A similar Samsung device will be available on the Sprint Wimax network next year.
Does the chipset in the forthcoming Samsung phone automatically connect the CDMA and WiMax backbones? It's quite amazing to have a single phone that fully connects two national networks to a single backbone?
Or are you saying Samsung isn't going full speed with WiMax and is falling back on older technologies such as CDMA to look into the future...
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Damn Boss! he sucks and this job F'n sucks. now I'm not going to be home in time for that movie on cable. I'll just set the DVR from my phone or better yet, watch it from my phone with my Boss's secret...
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