Zyxel begins shipping WiMAX routers to Sprint Nextel
Fri, 02/22/2008 - 3:26am — Cleve Nettles
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Digitimes reports that Zyxtel is shipping the XHOM WiMAX high speed routers to Sprint that will be used in its nationawide WiMAX rollout. These will be used at Sprint's customer's homes and should start hitting the streets very soon.
Many people have been very eager to try out the WiMAX service offered by Sprint Nextel only to be put off by delay after delay.
Sprint's WiMAX 4G service will compete against existing 3G services from AT&T, Verizon and T-mobile and upcoming next generation standards. For more on WiMAX, check the video after the break
why is wimax known as 4g when the 3g towers can be upgrading to faster and faster speeds?
Telstra here in australia is upgrading their 3g towers to 20+mbps this time next year, they've already reached 14mbps.. and they plan to take it to 50+
Basically the current 3g tech can be upgraded and upgraded -- the only difference between wimax and 3g is the way in which the signals are transmitted and their supposed strength..
The technology aspects of "2G", "3G", and "4G" are so loosely defined that it is a meaningless terminology. Using the idea that "new technology means a new generation" ignores the fact that many technologies are developed in parallel, and many "die on the vine".
It reminds me of the "3G" and "4G' and "5G" programming language debates of the 1980's and 90's. There was certainly a lot of discussion about 4G languages, with some claiming to be building 5th generation programming languages. But today's most common and generally useful programming languages (perhaps Java and C#) aren't put in this "5th generation" category. Nope, they're still firmly entrenched in "3G". Just like BASIC and Pascal and PL/1 were. And no one cares.
In the end, customers care about price, performance and reliability. And since now people know how to talk about such things (such as "14 Mbit/sec, works in all major markets in the US, for $20 per month"), the idea of using a non-descriptive "generational" description is nothing short of marketdroid pointlessness.
Selling a WiMAX router? Tell me if it will work in my house and my car, how much bandwidth I can expect out of it, and how much it'll cost me per month. The label "4G" tells me none of those numbers, even though those who are posting the article certainly know the answers to those questions.
I largely agree, but I think there are generations as in how long a system can be upgraded and GSM reached its limit for new services.
Here in Europe WiMAX is tested as well, especially in Scandinavia; but here experts see WiMAX as a supplement to UMTS and WLAN because of it's range.
I totally agree with your last paragraph; and the video only shows that the system itself seems to work when the weather is really nice, you are in a relatively flat land and somewhere in nature.
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Maybe Apple should skip 3G
Maybe Apple should skip 3G altogether and make the iPhone compatible with WiMax.
WiMax is the suck. Sprint
WiMax is the suck. Sprint is fading fast and needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
why is wimax known as 4g
why is wimax known as 4g when the 3g towers can be upgrading to faster and faster speeds?
Telstra here in australia is upgrading their 3g towers to 20+mbps this time next year, they've already reached 14mbps.. and they plan to take it to 50+
Basically the current 3g tech can be upgraded and upgraded -- the only difference between wimax and 3g is the way in which the signals are transmitted and their supposed strength..
Even 2G (EDGE) can be
Even 2G (EDGE) can be upgraded...
But it is a completly different tecnology from 3G...and so is 3G respect to 4G.
It's a new Generation...it's the fourth one. =)
Very simple guys.
The technology aspects of
The technology aspects of "2G", "3G", and "4G" are so loosely defined that it is a meaningless terminology. Using the idea that "new technology means a new generation" ignores the fact that many technologies are developed in parallel, and many "die on the vine".
It reminds me of the "3G" and "4G' and "5G" programming language debates of the 1980's and 90's. There was certainly a lot of discussion about 4G languages, with some claiming to be building 5th generation programming languages. But today's most common and generally useful programming languages (perhaps Java and C#) aren't put in this "5th generation" category. Nope, they're still firmly entrenched in "3G". Just like BASIC and Pascal and PL/1 were. And no one cares.
In the end, customers care about price, performance and reliability. And since now people know how to talk about such things (such as "14 Mbit/sec, works in all major markets in the US, for $20 per month"), the idea of using a non-descriptive "generational" description is nothing short of marketdroid pointlessness.
Selling a WiMAX router? Tell me if it will work in my house and my car, how much bandwidth I can expect out of it, and how much it'll cost me per month. The label "4G" tells me none of those numbers, even though those who are posting the article certainly know the answers to those questions.
I largely agree, but I think
I largely agree, but I think there are generations as in how long a system can be upgraded and GSM reached its limit for new services.
Here in Europe WiMAX is tested as well, especially in Scandinavia; but here experts see WiMAX as a supplement to UMTS and WLAN because of it's range.
I totally agree with your last paragraph; and the video only shows that the system itself seems to work when the weather is really nice, you are in a relatively flat land and somewhere in nature.
The video is awesome!!!
The video is awesome!!!