Comments on: The Truth About WiMAX http://gigaom.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/ Sat, 25 May 2013 01:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Trent Cann http://gigaom.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115820 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:58:58 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115820 What do you guys think of Wimax now?

]]> By: Trent Cann http://gigaom.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115819 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:57:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115819 Looking back at the comments four years later – Dennis Evans is freaking brilliant.

]]> By: Frank http://gigaom.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115818 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:25:05 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115818 My superficial take on it is that the WiMAX technology itself isn’t really all that great, but it makes sense in the context of an Intel/Google/Telco partnership in a business plan involving advertising to a large number of users through legacy analogue TV infrastructure. That is, it’s the particular business plan, involving those partners, that makes WiMAX suitable for that. Maybe that will open opportunities for WiMAX elsewhere as it drives the price of the technology down, but I see the 3G LTE being the way forward

]]> By: Steve http://gigaom.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115817 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:24:58 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115817 Is it possible to use Fon with Clearwire and have an even more secure setting?

]]> By: Ron http://gigaom.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115816 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:36:06 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115816 WiMAX is defined as Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access by WiMAX Forum. WiMAXForce.com – Providing wired line and wireless connectivity via T1, T3 and higher. Whatever Bandwidth is required we can provide the Solution. Thank you for visiting WiMAXForce.com.

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115815 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:35:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115815 Chetan. what do you think you’re Verizon friend would say — WiMax is great for the US, we just wasted $10B on fiber and 3G the last couple years? The so-called super 3G/4G DoCoMo and other are working on has as much in common with WiMax/WiBro as it does with the CDMA2000 that Verizon is currently using.

]]> By: Chetan http://gigaom.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115814 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 05:52:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115814 Took me a while to get to the bottom of this. WiMax is not suitable for the US market said my Verizon friend, atleast not for an ISP which has fiber(Speed and reliablity are THE BEST) goals. Best suited for Asian markets. Telcos are likely to go with Super 3G which will be led by DoCoMo.

]]> By: Paul Jardine http://gigaom.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115813 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:23:34 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115813 P.S. I’d love to be a strategist at Walmart or Tesco right now…

]]> By: Paul Jardine http://gigaom.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115812 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:21:04 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115812 Om, the point the Swisscom figure was supposed to show, is that people don’t move too far from their homes, and they definitely don’t move around wide areas on a regular basis, they have specific destinations and home locations. Are these so hard to predict?
Perhaps Americans move around more, morbidity statistics would suggest otherwise, however!
I could also be wrong in my inference from the Swisscom figures, but what I’m saying is that you don’t need a huge amount of coverage to make the service attractive to customers. Another reader mentioned FON and it will be interesting to see how it develops. Will the patchy coverage be a problem?

]]> By: Rick http://gigaom.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115811 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:35:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/the-truth-about-wimax/#comment-115811 Here’s a great municipal wireless analysis by an expert in the WBB space.

http://www.wimaxtrends.com/features/special/sfeature_031306.htm

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