Where's WiMAX? THG Gets The Story From Clearwire
Table of contents
- 1. Getting The Story Straight On WiMAX
- 2. Why Do We Need WiMAX?
These days, if you want to launch a new wireless technology, you either must be on to something really good or else you’re totally insane and about to lose a freakin’ fortune. Recent history is littered with examples. Wireless USB? Nowhere. Ultra-Wideband? As if. And the city-blanketing “metro WiFi” services? Train wrecks...and that’s being kind.
Now, after years of trials and spot deployments around the world, we finally have WiMAX entering the fray. As of this writing, two U.S. cities, Baltimore and Portland, Oregon, now have city-wide WiMAX service, and there’s little doubt that provider Clearwire (which snapped up many of Sprint’s wireless assets recently) plans to increase its market coverage as quickly as customers, regulators, and balance sheets allow. Soon, WiMAX may be hitting your town. Is the technology ready for prime time? We sat down with VP of network deployment John Storch to get the whole story.
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On tomshardware.co.uk and there is not even a question as to whether there is any chance of similar services being rolled out anywhere outside of the US?
That seems like an oversight to me.
I get those kinds of speeds from 3G data anyway.
So, the point is?
3G has terrible latentcy - 200ms + . Going forward this will be a major problem. Eg gaming and and any other realtime applications dont really work over 3G...
What latency can we expect from WiMAX? as oppose to 3G?
c'mon toms, where is the technical spreadsheet that shows us the actual difference's?
Latency on Clearwire current "expedience" networks hovers anywhere bewteen 40ms and 100ms depending on coverage area and signal strength so WiMAX will be as good if not better.
I've been using wimax for the last 5 years in Ashford, Kent ,England
Sad to read such a clear marketing push...and toms bying it?!
Nothing inherent in the 3g and 4g that makes it worse than wimax
more a question of market adapatation and focusing on an existing market that might not require that much. You dont building something that there is no/weak customerbase for. though i have to say that uk, don't know about us has a tendency to limit the user
for example in sweden broadband used a contention ratio of 1:5 or 1:2 here in uk it can be 1:25 or 1:50 and i suspect that the mobile networks are the same.....ie the 3g cards that i have and blackberry are extremly slow not due to technology but due to network implementation.
/Dan