carcarx wrote:
>
> On Dec 20, 8:11 am, SinghaLvr <singha...@charter.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:48:00 -0500, carcarx wrote
>> (in article <1165589280.915167.58...@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups. com>):
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 7, 5:54 pm, John Navas <spamfilt...@navasgroup.com> wrote:
> Short term: Adding WiMAX. It does sound as if long term the are moving
> TO
>> WiMax though. This article is dated August. That's a lifetime in this
>> industry. Lots can change.
>>
>> http://telephonyonline.com/wimax/tec...dband_spectrum...
>
> Medium term GSM (TDMA) will be gone. European carriers are discovering
> that
> using the same band for W-CDMA as they're using for TDMA is desirable
> (something the
> cdma folks have done from day one.) Long term W-CDMA will be gone.
> So, we're really talking about all carriers moving to WiMax, not just
> some.

And as usual, everyone in this thread is talking out of their rear-ends,
because we simply don't know.

Coming up the pike are WiMax, MediaFLO, and EVDO Revisions B and C (of
which C is supposed to meet or exceed proposed WiMax speeds). Sprint
has committed to WiMax, and I wouldn't be surprised if they overlaid the
existing CDMA network to B and C in the future considering it would be
relatively easy to do.

But regardless, this is all vaporware at present, and a long way off.
Remember, everyone said we'd be zooming along at 3G speeds as early as
1999. They also said that desktop PCs would be long obsolete.

7 years later, PCs are more prevalent than ever, and we're barely
beginning to realize 3G's potential. Hell, most areas STILL have only
EDGE and 1xRTT coverage, and we still have yet to fully blanket all of
the old AMPS coverage footprint with 2G or greater coverage. So I am not
at all convinced that Wimax is happening as soon as people think. WiMax
or its equivalent will happen, but it will take a long while to hit the
market.

The reality is that as much as publications like WirelessWeek, and
wireless industry analysts love to babble on incessantly about the
upcoming technologies, there are massive deployment and capital issues
that must be addressed first. And even then it takes a while for the
price to come down, so that people other than bleeding edge early
adopters with lots of money to burn can actually take advantage of the
new technologies. Even now, EVDO data tethering is a toy that is played
with only by business people who can expense the high cost, and geeks
who have learned how to hack their phones to allow the service
illegitimately.


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