http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/ Engadget Comments for Multi-mode LTE chips predicted for 2009, WiMAX for "developing nations" 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/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/Nov 5th 2008 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/Nov 5th 2008 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/
Hehe; seriously though, the divide does make sense. LTE will in all likelihood surpass WiMAX on most technical fronts, but will probably end up so patent-encumbered that it restricts deployment to already-industrialized nations. The suggestion that Baltimore is a "developing nation" has it backwards: industrialized regions can still have both systems, but non-industrialized regions are unlikely to have LTE, at least for some time.]]>Nov 5th 2008 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/
Also I've been using Xohm there for the past few weeks and it is pretty sweet.]]>Nov 5th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/Nov 5th 2008 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/Nov 5th 2008 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/multi-mode-lte-chips-predicted-for-2009-wimax-for-developing-n/
Not much really, at least my country is like of some sort of a poor Dakota, uninteresting, isolated and very few people really knowns or care about their existence. Boring? yes, troubled? not really.



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LTE, on the other hand, is very much a cellphone system - which means you have to have a cellphone network already in place to implement it. That means the same players doing the same thing, charging the same rates and still thinking the way cellcos think.

Even if we concede WiMAX isn't as 'advanced' as LTE (and that has yet to be proven), WiMAX is here now and is actually working. Rates for access are more inline with broadband ISP rates.

I think WiMAX has a very good chance of knocking even traditional cell PHONE markets on its ear, let alone mobile data. I think LTE will be more of the same, just faster and more expensive.]]>Nov 6th 2008 4:18PM