http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/ Engadget Comments for GSM Association votes to support LTE http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/Nov 15th 2007 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/
No thanks!

I'll stick with Sprint and look forward to WiMax in the future.]]>Nov 15th 2007 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/
I do not understand your comment. How is that different than Sprint having an 1x/EV-DO phone with a WiMAX chip?]]>Nov 15th 2007 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/
most likely, sprint wont have CDMA/1x/EVDO phones that also have a WiMAX chip. My understanding is that they'll have CDMA/1x/EVDO phones ... and WiMAX devices (with VOIP, is my guess).


Personally, this isn't really news. SSDD. We had 2 formats in the US before, we'll have 2 formats in the US in the future.

I'll look at LTE if Nokia releases an IT that uses it, otherwise, I'm almost certainly going to be on a WiMAX service when their WiMAX based IT comes out next year.
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Crap. that last one was a real one.]]>Nov 15th 2007 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/
You would think year after year of this would make the carriers realize that they are just Qualcomm's tools in this never ending patent fight. If they want to ever get the kind of money the Japanese market gets, they need to unify the technology so that they don't have to waste as much money on rolling out the tech.

But instead we get this crap again. Guess I won't be buying a 4G handset for a while, while each player slowly builds out their own network (while still building out their 3G networks which aren't even near complete).

Which one is Europe using? Which one is Japan using? Since we don't build any of this crap ourselves and are a technological backwater, we should just use a prevailing standard for once.]]>Nov 15th 2007 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/Nov 15th 2007 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/
Europe and its operators are heavily involved in the development of LTE so it is natural they would adopt it. Japan is a different story. DoCoMo uses FOMA which is a derivative of UMTS and SoftBank uses HSPA. These are likely then to migrate to LTE. KDDI currently uses EV-DO technology. I hope this helps.]]>Nov 15th 2007 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/LTE fold. So from a global perspective who's left, what, Sprint and one or two of the SE Asian operators. Well, from a global perspective, this GSMA endorsement is a potential DEATH KISS for WiMax!]]>Nov 15th 2007 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/
How many LTE devices will be on the market, globally, by the end of this year?

How many LTE devices will be on the market in the US by the end of next year?

WiMAX already has some inertia. LTE doesn't.

Even if you have some real (as opposed to purely fanboy) reason for disliking WiMAX, you only have to look at far as DOS/Windows (or the oft-mentioned VHS) to see that inferior technologies will win if they have the right amount of inertia.]]>Nov 15th 2007 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/
This isn't a format war. GSM carriers pick whatever the GSM association picks. LTE has been picked and that's the end of it. ]]>Nov 15th 2007 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/
the operators thus do not want any kind of standard that will interfere with it, such as wimax, which allows a whole new slew of competitors to jump into the market.]]>Nov 16th 2007 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/
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care to explain?]]>Nov 15th 2007 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/Nov 16th 2007 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/Nov 15th 2007 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/gsm-association-votes-to-support-lte/
This would mean the progression path in the US would be:
ATT -> LTE
Verizon -> LTE
Tmobile -> LTE
Sprint -> WiMax
Alltel -> ? (My vote is LTE probably)

And any other carriers would probable switch to LTE as well just because the largest CDMA carrier switchs to LTE and most have roaming agreements with them anyway.

All in all much easier to move around carriers, and a much better chance at getting unlock handsets.]]>Nov 16th 2007 8:05AM