Thread: The Nokia N810 - WiMAX Edition
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2009-01-13 , 01:25
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
LTE wasn't even an official standard 18 months ago. WiMAX is.
As I've said many times before, LTE isn't a relevant comparison. Pay attention. GPRS/EDGE/HSPA and 1xRTT/EVDO are the relevant comparisons for the WiMAX decision.

For example, if I had UMTS support on my Nokia N810 past 18 months it would be useful throughout my country, but not elsewhere in the world especially not out of EU. Why? Roaming costs...
Now who's being myopic? GRPS/EDGE/HPSA was certainly available outside of the EU 18 months ago. For example, in the US. Not sure about Canada or OZ. 1xRTT/EVDO was also available (mostly in Asia and the US, IIRC).

We're going in circles. Your statements left the N810WME realm and were globally about WiMAX being vapourware (aka dead end). Yeah, in San Jose, CA, USA, North America, Earth perhaps but the world is bigger than that.
Fine. Calculate the percentage of the world's surface that had deployed and working WiMAX 18/12/6/0 months ago. Now do the same for GPRS/EDGE/HSPA. Weight it by dollars spent on WWAN connectivity for each of those areas (ie. an area that only spends $50 USD per year on WWAN connectivity is only worth 1/10 of an equally sized area that spends $500 USD per year on WWAN connectivity).

Or, since you're such a yankiphobe, instead of USD, convert it all into Euros, and give that answer instead.

Tell me which is the biggest market at each of those time frames: WiMAX or EDGE/HSPA. I'm willing to bet that every one here, except you, already knows the answer without having to compile all of that data.

(and, again, I never said WiMAX was a dead end, I said it was vaporware. The two are entirely different.)

Given popularity of netbooks which come with a 3G (UMTS) dongle it'd be easy to also sell these netbooks with WiMAX dongles.
As far as I know, they're not doing dongles, they're doing PCI-Express-Mini Cards for the most part. And Express Cards for the rest.

Because my government, based on EU directive, is currently licensing both LTE and WiMAX for 2 additional telcos besides the 3 major ones I do not see why either one would have won already except current infrastructure.
Again... this isn't about LTE vs WiMAX.
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