Qualcomm Snaps Up Flarion
Watch out WiMAX - UMTS
The days of BS are over boys. WiMAX is years (like 3-5) from being mobile if it ever does become mobile and UMTS really dropped the ball on data. WCDMA is a poor data tech and HSDPA is only a little less bad.
Q now has a commercial ready fully mobile OFDMA that works and well (i kind of thought it was ofdm not ofdma but hey). I've used it by the way. Q is now 3-5 years ahead. Flarion was having problems trying to get major customers because the major customers wanted a standard or the backing of someone like...Qualcomm.
Q also gets patents on mobile OFDMA and an opportunity to attempt to sue WiMAX and the ...
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Ofdm is a true competitor against wimax and umts/hsdpa.
Great purchase by my beloved qualcomm. 🙂