Comments on: Germans Love their Flarion OFDM

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 04 May 2005 14:58:26 +0000

actually, they perform quite well even in dense situations. they had a really good trials in the US in the North Carolina’s Chapel Hill area. I think they compare much more favorably with say HSDPA or CDMA which need many more base stations and cannot gurantee the speeds.

By: Techgnocchi

Techgnocchi — Wed, 04 May 2005 08:40:00 +0000

Well, let’s take the details of the “TMobile Praises Flarion” article and analyze them. 220 Friendly enterprise users, distributed into 18 base stations. If one assume even the worst case of single-sector bts and 20% active users at any one time, this means 2.4 users per bts at any given time. Given this light loading and virtually no interference, this performance is neither surprise nor proof of commercial viability. Let’s see it in a dense urban environment with 10k users. I hope we get to see the day….

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:21:37 +0000

i believe they are working with some of the smaller carriers in US. like the one down in texas. i forget their name. clearly they are challenged in the US, but overseas at least there is some hope

By: David Warner

David Warner — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:07:29 +0000

Flarion OFDM only had one trial run here in central North Carolina with Nextel Broadband. When Sprint snapped up Nextel, that was shut down.

Sprint and Verizon are pushing EVDO, and Cingular is moving toward HSDPA, with T-Mobile trailing behind. How is Flarion going to get any traction in America without backing from a major carrier? Muni broadband? Somehow I doubt that.