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    • WiMax Empire Poses Continual Threat to the AT&T Network [view article]
      Hey Geddy, get your facts straight. Here are the facts about WiMax:

      1) Over 130 countries are deploying or have deployed WiMax. LTE is not even out of the standards review yet.

      2) China & India have already deployed WiMax

      3) There are over 400 companies working on WiMax products and services including Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, Intel, Google and many, many others.

      WiMax has at least a 3 year time-to-market advantage......but what many still do not understand is that this will be a complete and fundamental shift in the way wireless is sold. The Sprint-Clearwire model is a completely open system.....it won't be a Sprint device, it will be a GE, Samsung, Intel, Dell, Acer, Microsoft, Apple, Pioneer, Ford, Chevy, Honda, Bayliner, etc, etc DEVICE!!! Sprint-Clearwire becomes the ARMS dealer......

      AT&T & Verizon fear this FACT the most and want to distract people from WiMax at all costs......they want a CLOSED system that they can control and monopolize....       Jul 31 12:45 PM
    • The WiMax Deal Is a Disaster: How Google Got Snookered [view article]
      Sounds like Erick may be a Verizon or AT&T crony.....LTE is so far off, we are talking 5-6 years before it even starts competing......plus, it will be a CLOSED network.....same old, same old from the telco monopolies......

      Mobile WiMax is real and it is here today. And what analysts continue to miss (some, like Erick, by design) is the fact that this will be an OPEN network and OPEN standard......pay on demand, by the second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year.....build any device and put a WiMax chip in it for connectivity to the Internet or private MPLS network perhaps? Car stereos, camcorders, appliances, trucks, buses, cars, cash registers, billboards (Google advertising connection?), webcams, phones using VoIP, etc, etc, etc.....oh yeah, and did I mention that WiMax is STANDARDS based and has Security and Class of Service (think VoIP) built into the protocol?

      How about a true backup to those wireline T1s so many businesses buy from Sprint today? Or (Telco's shiver) true LAST MILE replacement of that T1? Don't forget that Sprint is one of the LARGEST wireline Internet service providers in the World and would love to stop paying those LOCAL LOOP CHARGES to their competitors AT&T, Verizon & Qwest.....just bypass those telcos and pass the savings on to the business customer! And no more 4 week provisioning times to get those T1s delivered......just drop ship a Cisco router with a Wimax chip and have a multimeg T1 or MPLS circuit up and running in a couple days!!!!

      Simply put, WiMax is going to change the wireless and wireline world FOREVER. Not since the introduction of today's commercial Internet back in the mid-90s have the telco's been so worried about their monopoly.

      WiMax is a GAME CHANGER and this is why Google and the Cable Companies are so interested......Google seeks an open standard and the cable companies see a way to truly hurt their biggest competition.

      The fun is about to begin......       May 12 07:06 PM
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