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WiMax Officially a 3G Standard

Oct 19, 2007, 2:11 PM by (staff)

The International Telecom Union (ITU) has voted to make WiMax one of the official 3G technologies for 2.5 GHz spectrum, along with LTE. Even though carriers and the public are referring to both these standards as 4G, the ITU has not yet given that designation to the technologies. The ITU approved the OFDM TDD WMAN variant of WiMax, which is the version being used by Sprint in this same spectrum. The ITU is a standards body that most countries look to for guidance about what technologies to allow to operate in various bands. WiMax is the first non-cellular technology to be approved by the organization as a 3G or 4G technology.

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beeferjay

Oct 19, 2007, 2:46 PM

Wait, isnt WiMAX a 3G technology?

but sprint is calling it 4G.

this is all so funny. But its cool that they (those wireless gurus) finally accepted another technology besides the 5 originals.

Omagus

EV-DO is 3G. Isn't WiMAX faster than that?

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dublea

WiMAX isn't a cellular technology, or G tech for short. WiMAX is actually a technology that was developed for city wide wifi but wasn't accepted due to everyone having to purchase WiMAX hardware. Sprint has taken it as their 4G and now it officially...
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eric Lin

technically it is 3G, because there still is no official 4G, however since it is paired with LTE, which we out here in non-engineer land have been calling 4G but the ITU also calls 3G, then we will call wimax 4G. it only makes sense.

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LordObento

Maybe we can call it 3.5G like how EDGE was 2.5G

Or 3.99G

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wombough

Oct 20, 2007, 7:38 PM

here is a good article on it!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_hi_te/un_w ... »

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