WiMax technology, at one point promoted by Intel (INTC), is no match for the present day LTE technology.
Select models of Toshiba's premium consumer laptops will include built-in WiMAX technology.
More than 20, 000km of fibre stretches inland and surrounds major conurbations, 3G mobile towers cover cities like Nairobi and long-range wireless masts using Wimax technology have appeared.
So far, Fujitsu has invested tens of millions of dollars in WiMax technology, and Hintze believes that WiMax will likely pick up faster in Europe and Asia than in the U.S. Still, the company wants to benefit from the growth in North America and has already deployed one small WiMax network in Rhode Island, used by local businesses, with the wireless CLEC TowerStream.
The 4G technology WiMax (once championed by Sprint in the U.S.) will see the beginning of its end in Asia.
While Sprint recently confirmed it is transitioning away from the 4G technology WiMax that Clearwire specializes in, Sprint is still dependent on Clearwire to support the approximately 15 million WiMax handsets it has sold to date.
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And since the modules from Intel and Nokia will not hit the market until the latter part of 2007, many believe that by then, the market will already be moving to even higher-speed networks such as WiMax and another technology known as High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA).
It is preparing a national launch of its fourth-generation wireless broadband technology, WiMax.
The combined firm will be able to use this prime wireless real estate to build a 4G network, perhaps using Flarion's technology or WiMax, an emerging wireless-broadband standard.
Overland Park, Kansas-based Sprint, which sells service on a technology called WiMax, has a two-year head start on 4G that it has used to stem subscriber defections and revenue declines.
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Levin says Wall Street is also wary of fiber-optic networks because they may wind up facing competition from emerging wireless technologies such as WIMAX, a wireless technology that promises to deliver broadband over great distances.
Sprint, which has just begun to build out its 4G LTE service, offers 4G today on a competing technology known as WiMax that it will phase out.
No, that would be almost impossible--and rumors that Apple would introduce everything from a scheme to couple its products to cutting-edge WiMax or ultra-wideband technology proved completely unfounded.
There are at least three larger open questions about the prospects for WiMAX, particularly as an embedded technology.
Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people ), which owns 90 Mhz as part of its investment in WiMax, an advanced wireless data technology, is struggling to build out its network and doesn't plan to bid.
Beceem, now Broadcom, and Sequans have already made bimodal WiMax and LTE radios, enabling roaming between WiMax and LTE, hence the prevailing technology is readily available for Sprint to develop such phones using this technology.
If Clearwire can upgrade its network form WiMax to TDD LTE (85% similar technology) as scheduled and China Mobile (650 million Subs) finalizes a deal with Apple while completing their TDD LTE network, then Sprint will have a game changing world iPhone capable of roaming from FDD to TDD LTE.
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My reasons are many and include the fact that Clearwire is using a wireless technology that is not mainstream (WiMAX) on a portion of spectrum that requires building out many more cell sites than its competitors, and that it has chosen to enter major metro markets already served by wired DSL, cable, and a number of wireless broadband companies.
It is logical, they say, to include WiMAX in these devices to drive the adoption of the technology worldwide.
WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a high capacity IP-based technology that can be deployed as a new network or as an overlay to existing 2G and 3G wireless technologies.
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