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    Texrat
    May 12 08:40 AM
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    The WiMax Deal Is a Disaster: How Google Got Snookered [view article]
    Point #3 is incorrect. WiMAX enabled devices, like Nokia's WiMAX version of the N810 internet tablet, are either out now or will be very shortly-- not "a long way away". So scratch the "chicken and egg" scenario.

    And you may have valid reasons for pessimism, but none of the obstacles you mention are insurmountable. If past innovators let your sort of complaints get to them, we wouldn't be having this internet exchange right now.     Reply
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    Scott Berry
    May 12 08:15 AM
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    Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits? [view article]
    Wow. Who ever thought sacred cow tipping could be such fun. Good thing Tony Stark lent me one one of his spare suits over the weekend.

    @Vlad has this mostly right. Do I think WiMax would be bad for consumers? Hell no, I frankly hope CLWR succeeds, there's a huge demand for what it promises. I'll be first in line.

    Do I think the technology itself will fail? No, not at all. I do question whether this implies that everyone who deploys it will succeed, or even has a winning business plan. But I'm happy to be educated.

    Can someone point to an existing WiMax deployment that consistently delivers high bandwidth service--fixed or mobile--to an appreciable portion of the local consumer population? (Trials don't count, the ability to scale is important here.) And is the operator solvent? If WiMax is truly "available today" this should be easy.

    A good portion of the advantage WiMax has over WiFi is in the higher power allowed in licensed vs. unlicensed spectrum. What is the additional battery drain on your laptop due to the higher power required to achieve this advantage? How much longer will you spend charging your batteries (keeping you wired)?

    WiFi has had some successes and some (big) failures in both small muni and larger metro settings. Maybe it will take WiMax many such tries to get it right. How do we know CLWR isn't another WiFi Philadelphia? Plenty of smart people dumped money into that one. For that matter, how do we know it isn't another Metricom?

    Finally, @Pullease--"shill for the legacy companies"? Them's fightin' words, mister.     Reply
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    TERN
    May 12 02:41 AM
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    Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits? [view article]
    Wimax will be an absolute godsent in the whole wide developing world, especially Latin America, Indonesia and the Philippines where fixed line broadband will never be part of the future.
    Cheap iPones or iPhone-like devices will drive the rollout of Wimax.     Reply
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    atlake
    May 11 10:42 PM
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    Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits? [view article]
    you are wrong, wimax and wifi have dramatically different performance profiles, business models, deployment models, and do different things. while the differences are subtle, its disappointing to see that somebody with a public forum such as this doesn't appear by your essay above to understand this. its this misunderstanding which is goading municipalities to spend way too much money rolling out wifi in an attempt to make something it was never meant to do. ironically, exactly what wimax will be great at (working reliably over large distances).

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    Pullease
    May 11 09:44 PM
    Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits? [view article]
    Scott....you have absolutely no idea of which you speak...or you are a shill / consultant for the legacy crap. Wimax works...at 60 mph...at fantastic speeds. Would GOOG/INTC/etc invest Billion$ in a technology that "that works in some circumstances"? Our country is quickly losing all edge in mobile broadband with the legacy complacency you spew...nice work!

    This is a 4G technology that is available today...as opposed to the LTE "promise" of > 2 years from today. Comparing the offering of today's mobile providers and WiFi speaks to your knowledge of this OFDM mobile technology.

    Boondoggle?...you will be eating your words.

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    User 191984
    May 11 09:40 PM
    Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits? [view article]
    I'm believe in people who are visionary and make the right predictions on how technologies will evolve and be successful.

    The folks who never belived in cell phones, Wired broadband and WiFi were quite many in the technologies early days. But value for the consumer and right pricing enabled all the 3 technologies to succeed.

    In a world where connectedness is essential rather a luxury WiMAX will be a success as it extends the capabilities WiFi gives us and also provides QoS.

    If HD improves picture quality for Standard definition video. Then one can say WiMAX provides reliability, QoS and ease of use (authentication etc) for mobile broadband. So its got all the ingredients for being a future success.

    My prediction, WiMAX in next 3 years will be a mandatory feature in every single Laptop sold on the planet. Mark my words it will succeed.

    So will benefit, end users will be the first to benefit, because price of the service will be low, due to the operator needs to grow subscribers. Intel will benefit because of maximal platform sales. TEMs and operators will benefit because now, they have full mobile internet platform to innovate without boundaries as opposed to the telecom technologies where innovation was more contained.     Reply
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    bigger
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    May 11 08:34 PM
    Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits? [view article]
    So short sighted is this article only focused on consumers. While this is definitely being marketed to comsumers and there are many new products these chips will go into besides laptops and phones (cameras, book readers, media players [tv, music], to name a few)... BUT, The real enchilada is the back haul relief for cell phone transmission and business services. This IS a new 'last mile'. Sprint and it's partners, will finally break free from the children of the of big old expensive telephone company (Verizon and at&t). Sprint has a long history of developing the best cutting edge technology, unfortunately those pesky customers seem to be an afterthought (billing, customer focus, etc). This new network has the ability to reduce expenses substantially for an operator like Sprint, giving it back the resources it needs to rebuild customer service, and maybe even cut prices. Reply
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    Vladimir
    Senkov
    May 11 08:17 PM
    Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits? [view article]
    Guys with negative comments seem to be missing the key point of the article. The question the author was trying to answer isn't about wimax being great or not for consumers.
    I'm sure this will not be a negative for the consumer. It will either be useless (worst case scenario) or great (best case scenario) or somewhere in between. Either way consumer doesn't lose. Question the article attempts to focus in is that of investment. Lots of folks invested have in this technology, one way or another. Some industry players who haven't invested in it directly might be able to benefit from its rollout. All the author was trying to do here was to figure out who stands to benefit from their investment or market position, if anyone. Yes he ends up with a cynical conclusion, but that doesn't mean he is wrong.
    I sort of agree that Intel is more likely to benefit from this long term versus, for example, Sprint.
    Consumer might benefit eventually, but that will require someone other than Sprint to roll out another wimax network. I doubt switching to wimax from other technologies, fixed and to a lesser extent mobile, will make sense until Sprint has some competition there.     Reply
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    Nextel
    Accessories
    May 11 06:34 PM
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    Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits? [view article]
    WiMax is the future! Reply
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    Saturn V
    May 11 04:41 PM
    Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits? [view article]
    You seem to have a big lack of vision. I ran into a lot of people with a similar mindset 20 years ago, when cellular telephony was in its infancy. A lot of financial analysts and rag writers, commented, " I have a phone in my house, and I have a phone on my desk. Why would me or anyone want a phone for the car or else where."
    There is built in market for Laptops. I love WiFi but its limited range and availability, and a lack of a standardized carriers are real problems. I have a tough time using my Laptop at Airports consistently. Elsewhere it is a real doubtful case. WiMax ends those issues.

    iPhone is just the leading edge of devices, which will make WiMax look brilliant. Presently internet access on cell phones is a joke. Newer devices will make Wimax just as ubiquitous as cell phone coverage.

    Maybe cell phones will even dissappear, having being absorbed into iPhone type devices. That is why existing Carriers like Verizon and ATT are the biggest opponents of WiMax. They see the future and are terrified. So they are doing their best trying to derail WiMax. They dont have much of a hope, because WiMax will take off in places like India and other countries without mass internet coverage. This will give WiMax the huge international economies of scale, that the solutions proposed by Verizon, ATT will never take off.     Reply
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    2008traveler
    May 11 01:21 PM
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    Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits? [view article]
    Had a friend in Honolulu that tried Clearwire's Wimax service for over a year. They were located right in the middle of a flat metropolitan terrain with no obstacles and they said it was lousy. So weak that they could only get reception with the modem in one corner of their townhouse. Even that was spotty at times. Seems like Google should have pumped some money into a build out of Boingo. They would have had an instant impact and we all could stick with our wifi devices. Reply
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    DeltaCharlie
    May 11 11:14 AM
    Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits? [view article]
    Ever use an iPHONE? Now, if only I could access the Internet without having to spend a few bucks for a coffee or staying overnight at a hotel with complimentary WiFi... even then video streaming kind of sucks. I'd like to watch video news now and then. WiMAX is the only wireless broadband that can deliver this -- 3G was an absolute joke. Glad to see someone's getting it right for once. You stick with your pen and paper -- clearly, you know nothing about technology, and here you are advising your readers. Read a book, or talk to people in the industry for a more balanced perspective. Reply
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    guliamo
    May 11 10:18 AM
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    Comcast Sees Increased Competition in Multi-Media Bundling [view article]
    Are there still people who own Comcast? why would anyone want to do this to themselves? because they have live programing on Jet Blue? haha...
    people! there is nothing there! everyone is going hi def, youngsters aren't watching that much TV anymore, where's the big up for comcast anyway?
    b-o-a-r-i-n-g..
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    JDeragon
    May 11 08:29 AM
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    Comcast Sees Increased Competition in Multi-Media Bundling [view article]
    While comcast and the others seek to expand their value to be competitive the real value may be outside their traditional offerings.

    Consider the massive growth in "user generated content on the web. blogs, video and instant messaging are exploding. The growth of "social" networking and social media collectively represent significant opportunities to those companies who currently deploy utilities that let consumers and businesses "connect" to the web. Just imagine if said utility companies added functions and features that let the market "connect to each other" and publish their content easier, faster and distribute it across the current "triple plays" by the utility providers. What a "mesh" that would create significant market shifts and brand new markets of economic opportunity.

    What say you?     Reply
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    Geddy
    May 08 07:14 PM
    Sprint Forms WiMax JV With Clearwire [view article]
    Sprint/Clearwire (whatever they plan to call themselves) has no advantage over LTE. The promise they've made (not including the broken ones they've made in the past where they claimed to have a market on line by now) is to have half the population covered by 2010. The problem with that is the larger carriers also plan on deploying LTE that same year & if the past is any indicator, they'll go full bore & launch everything at once. The advantage of "first to market" will then be lost already by Sprint/Clearwire/Nexte...

    That & just google anywhere on the internet for Clearwire customer comments...they suck!!!     Reply

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