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4G. What is it, and how does he know what it is?

sonstar

Feb 29, 2008, 9:49 AM
4G Has yet to be defined. So Mr. Hesse is going to define it as Wimax. Why would 4g be defined as LTE or something like that? IT has still yet to be defined so this guy has got some guts to commonly refer to WIMAX as 4G.

Sonstar
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jared5604

Feb 29, 2008, 9:54 AM
Just curious, what would you refer to WIMAX as?
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ejs4237

Feb 29, 2008, 10:21 AM
4g is an acronym for fourth generation. The "next step" if you will. Seeing as how there has been no big changes since 3g, this is merely based on a progressive naming scheme in its simplest terms. But obviously has come to mean much more. And if you are first to do something, you can call it whatever the hell you want. 🙂
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irockash

Feb 29, 2008, 11:13 AM
Well said. Despite all the Sprint bashing that goes around, you have to give them credit for being the first to launch this. Especially considering LTE is still years away. If they pull WiMax out this year, and its all its cracked up to be, they may just pull out of their slump.
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sprintahead

Feb 29, 2008, 11:36 AM
wimax is sprint's 4g making phones and all type of device connect to INTERNET as fast as a cable mondom on the go! some carrrs at have trouble relase 3g! att 3g suck it basicly no where, and tmoblie do the even have it yet lol!
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sprintahead

Feb 29, 2008, 11:40 AM
wimax is sprint's 4g making phones and all type of device connect to INTERNET as fast as a cable modem on the go! some carriers at have trouble release 3g! att 3g sucks! it BASICly no where, and tmoblie do they even have it yet lol! 🤭 🤭 🤭 i should of review before i submit! 🤭 🤭 lol
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AtTheMet

Feb 29, 2008, 1:06 PM
sprintahead said:
wimax is sprint's 4g making phones and all type of device connect to INTERNET as fast as a cable modem on the go! some carriers at have trouble release 3g! att 3g sucks! it BASICly no where, and tmoblie do they even have it yet lol! 🤭 🤭 🤭 i should of review before i submit! 🤭 🤭 lol


Even spell check doesn't help your grammar buddy. 😳
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sprintahead

Mar 1, 2008, 2:09 PM
lol 🤭 🤭 i was on the go! 🤭 chill out!
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maokh

Feb 29, 2008, 1:53 PM
WiMax? cable modem? in your dreams.

WiMax barely works as a fixed point to multipoint service. Imagine whats going to happen when you put a bunch of mobile devices in the mix on the fringe of coverage?

I think sprint has a dud on their hands.
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AtTheMet

Feb 29, 2008, 1:05 PM
sprintahead said:
wimax is sprint's 4g making phones and all type of device connect to INTERNET as fast as a cable mondom on the go! some carrrs at have trouble relase 3g! att 3g suck it basicly no where, and tmoblie do the even have it yet lol!


This post is one of the reasons the spell check button was added. Please govern yourself accordingly. You made my head hurt!
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sonstar

Feb 29, 2008, 4:14 PM
Argentina has had a WIMAX network since early 2006. Wimax has also been deployed over in Europe and Asia. The Argentinean WIMAX is not considered 4G or even has it ever been classified as 4G. I have no qualms about WIMAX. I have a friend that used VOIP and SIP phones while in Argentina and Brazil. It does simultaneous voice and data at relatively fast speeds. However, I do not see it as 4G because it is a replacement of cellular, not in correlation with it. Yes, you can use it on a cellular network, but it is not cellular technology. LTE has been used on Cellular Nokia Cell sites and can be used totally with Cell phones. Point and Case Wimax is nothing new. It is only new to the US. Like always we are the last to get anything that is cellula...
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SPCSVZWJeff

Feb 29, 2008, 6:09 PM
Which Wimax are you talking about? Is Ericsson the only ones who get to decide standards? LTE will not be available for a long time. If it is the same mess as UMTS it will be even longer. Same old rhetoric, if it is a competing standard you immediately deny it meets standards, change standards to make sure it doesn't. Yes that is the GSM crowd.
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sonstar

Feb 29, 2008, 4:20 PM
jared5604 said:
Just curious, what would you refer to WIMAX as?


In my initial post I meant to say that, "Why Wouldn't LTE be defined as 4G."

I feel for there to be a 4G technology in cellular it needs to be just that. An evolution in Cellular data would need to be fourth Generation.Sony Ericsson Came up with a new EDGE that does 1.8 MBPS per second. LTE Does many Megabytes per second over cellular networks. This should be 4G an evolution in data within the cellular realm.

Sonstar
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chrogonz

Feb 29, 2008, 4:28 PM
sonstar said:
Sony Ericsson Came up with a new EDGE that does 1.8 MBPS per second.


An enhanced EDGE network could probably be considered 2.75 G, wouldn't it? Since EDGE itself was only 2.5 G.

HSPDA is considered GSM's 3G service here.
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working man

Feb 29, 2008, 10:42 AM
Sprint launched 3G handsets in 2002 but the speed was only 1X. In 2005 they launched EVDO which is broadband and a lot faster then the slower 1X speed. However they are BOTH considered "3G" based on what they're able to accomplish as opposed to what the previous "2G" handsets could do. Sprint launched 3G first and I'd say based on what WIMAX is supposed to do it will be the next generation....thus "4G". That being said I live in Eastern NC where Sprint hasn't even upgraded to EVDO speed yet so who knows if will ever get to 4G.
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mikasn

Feb 29, 2008, 3:35 PM
So, "if you're the fist to come out with something
you can call it whatever you want", like 5G, 6G...
That doesn't make a bit of sense. Even Japan doesn't even have 4G yet, and they are always the leaders.
Anyway, sounds like Sprint may bite the dust soon...

http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/27/technology/sprint »
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chrogonz

Feb 29, 2008, 4:25 PM
I'm pretty sure the Nth generation is compared locally. What's 3rd generation over here might have easily been 5th generation over in Japan, hence other people stating how technology gets rolled out much slower here in the States.

In this case, WiMax is Sprint's 4th generation network, whereas LTE will (if it gets rolled out) be AT&T's, Verizon's and T-Mobile's 4th generation network.

I think I've read elsewhere that Japan's already streaming movies to their cell phones. Imagine what generation that will be here! 😳
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