If Intel is to be successful here they need to offer systems in the Under 2GHz range for WiMAX, preferably 700Mhz and possibly AWS (1700Mhz, 2100Mhz) areas. Of course this would require minimum of 20Mhz of spectrum and FDD based WiMAX products to be solid enough to compete with LTE 4G systems. What I would anticipate is a tri mode Centrino product addressing LTE, WiMAX and WiFi (802.11n) systems. If Google etc are successful in freeing up the WHite Space market then Intel will need to provide something for that space (50Mhz to 700Mhz) as well. 2.5Ghz is just not right for all markets, especially Rural areas with any semblence of Foliage that will kill any mobile links.
Heres the deal, Asia was the first country to go live with CDMA in 1995, Sprint was very impressed so they decided to build a CDMA network and go live in 1996, all the nay sayers expected it to fail, it did not. Over the years CDMA has proven to be more reliable and secure than GSM. That is why the Govt is using CDMA for it's wireless transmissions. LTE has yet to make it out of a laboratory, LTE hasn't had any real world testing. Based on network reliability Intel will not incorporate LTE into it's chips. Wimax is like having CDMA on roids, LTE is basically a hi-end GSM network.
GSM networks in America are piggy-backed, they are basically build-ups of older networks, the same will be true for LTE, the CDMA network was built new from the ground up, same is true for Wimax.
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If Intel is to be successful here they need to offer systems in the Under 2GHz range for WiMAX, preferably 700Mhz and possibly AWS (1700Mhz, 2100Mhz) areas. Of course this would require minimum of 20Mhz of spectrum and FDD based WiMAX products to be solid enough to compete with LTE 4G systems.
What I would anticipate is a tri mode Centrino product addressing LTE, WiMAX and WiFi (802.11n) systems. If Google etc are successful in freeing up the WHite Space market then Intel will need to provide something for that space (50Mhz to 700Mhz) as well.
2.5Ghz is just not right for all markets, especially Rural areas with any semblence of Foliage that will kill any mobile links.
Heres the deal, Asia was the first country to go live with CDMA in 1995, Sprint was very impressed so they decided to build a CDMA network and go live in 1996, all the nay sayers expected it to fail, it did not. Over the years CDMA has proven to be more reliable and secure than GSM. That is why the Govt is using CDMA for it's wireless transmissions. LTE has yet to make it out of a laboratory, LTE hasn't had any real world testing. Based on network reliability Intel will not incorporate LTE into it's chips. Wimax is like having CDMA on roids, LTE is basically a hi-end GSM network.
GSM networks in America are piggy-backed, they are basically build-ups of older networks, the same will be true for LTE, the CDMA network was built new from the ground up, same is true for Wimax.