Thread: Why is WiMax such a big deal?
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2008-03-31 , 22:11
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Originally Posted by tabletrat View Post
< devils advocate >
Couldn't you just do that with 3G anyway? Surely the differences you are describing are actually more political than technical reasons?
</ devils advocate >
I think 3g needs to have towers in a smaller radius wheras wimax towers have a comparitively larger signal radius ..... thereby needing lesser towers in rural areas and still having good coverage, unlike 3g which needs much more resources to achieve the same.