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    • ON: Tue Jun 17th 10:50 AM
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      3G iPhone Impact on AT&T and Verizon
      I think this analysis is so biased. Have you really understood all the players in the market and the real dynamics. Of the 6 million iPhones sold at least close to 50% of them are sold as unlocked iPhones and do not make any dent in AT&T's picture as they have been purchased by folks for use in their home country (not US). So even when they hit the 10 million this trend will not stop for sometime in countries where this phone is not available.

      In addition the euphoria of the iPhone has reduced much since the last years launch. It is still a great product, but trust me the Samsung Instinct, RIM and LG's new products are going to give a run for their money. Also Sprint is very agressively offering its $99 plan that is way better than anything AT&T or Verizon has to offer other than lots of in your face advertizing.
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    • ON: Sun May 11th 21:40 PM
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      Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits?
      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.
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