Intel, Motorola and Samsung to back WiMAX 2

Just gimme the official EVO launch date already so I can stop googling the answer every day plz

Wondering how Big Red is going to reacts to this.

Now, we wait for Verizon/AT&T fanboys to come in and trash WiMAX while letting us all know LTE is still better. I wonder where they are using LTE to tell it is better.

@ Assimilate….

Us “fanboys” don’t have to say anything. The Sprint CEO already said it for us. If WiMax is far superior, then why would he admit to being open to moving to LTE? Moron.

Who cares about support from Intel ( a computer chip manufacturer) Samsung or Motorola (handset makers) You still just got dropped by Alcatel Lucent and Cisco, you know the people that make the hardware to build the towers?? Switch to LTE, So everything will be supported. including handsets. But now your problem is you and clearwire are running 2500Mhz Spectrum, Verizon and AT&T are running 700Mhz. You still cant win..

I’m not hear to trash anything, but we haven’t even got widespread WiMax yet and already WiMax 2 is out? Get the fu— outta here, hell some companies just finished rolling out 3G. I wish someone would take the ball and run with it already. I’m sick of waiting. Tired of hearing people talk about the “first 4G network” “rolling out 4G” blah blah. Give me my 4G band iPhone killer sometime before I die please!

While I’m bitching…I love my Droid, but I wonder why everyone thinks keyboards aren’t important anymore. How about an HTC Incredible or Sprint EVO with a fkng keyboard. Gesh. Not all of us have iPhone bitch fingers to type with. Some of us are real men!

I don’t care. I’m switching to whatever carrier has the best 4G phone offering at the moment. If the Evo 4G is THAT much better in speed and features than the Incredible, I’m going to Sprint. If AT&T or Verizon come out with something comparable or better, I’ll go to them.

I’m running out of reasons as to why I want to stay a Verizon BlackBerry user… even my Tour is dated. (And it’s not even a year old…the VZW rep was shocked that I was sick of it already…clearly they’re going after a different market).

You really cannot compare Wimax and LTE, Wimax is more similar to an actual internet connection, WiFi on steroids, LTE is more in line with GSM, a mobile cell phone connection. Cities across the US will be using Wimax for parking meters, Traffic signals, City-wide WiFi. Commuter trains, Busses as well as Taxi’s will have mobile Wimax base stations. Walmart is ditching AOL in favor of Wimax, for all of their communication. Major corporations will use Wimax for video conferencing, multimedia, etc. During the Engadget LIve Broadcast from CTIA, Hesse gave an example where an Ambulance outfitted with Wimax can transmit a live video to doctors to help them prepare for the patient. Security, Education, Medical. At&t will use Wimax for their rural customers without landlines. There is also talk of a Television service being transmitted via Wimax. LTE is only being built for wireless cell phone signals.

Having multiple technologies compete will only benefit us (the consumers).
The two technologies will co-exist, because one is never going to wipe the other out of the water. Gregg mentioned how Motorola is a handset maker, but they are also taking a huge step in the WiMax direction. They are supporting both technologies, because they believe that the end goal is getting people connected. In the end consumers don’t care about the technology. They care about the applications, the cost, the quality of service and either of these technologies will meet these needs. Bruce Brda from Motorola said it best “Two technologies will connect more people faster than one”.

However, when you check the facts, it does appear that Clearwire has the better spectrum position—no matter how you slice it. A Yankee report on the subject wrote: “Clearwire ranks highest with an estimated average of 150 MHz in the top 100 U.S. markets, measured in terms of population. Clearwire is followed by Verizon and AT&T, which have 88 and 84 MHz respectively, then Sprint (NYSE: S – News) with 69 MHz and T-Mobile with 51 MHz.”
Other than Clearwire, Sprint is likely in the best position of all. It has partnered with Clearwire to roll-out its 4G network, meaning that in addition to its 69 MHz of holdings, it can tap into Clearwire’s 150 MHz.
Since Sprint owns the majority (57%) of Clearwire they have access to way more spectrum than ATT and Verizon combined.
Wimax also has the advantage of a mature ecosystem in at least 146 different countries with Wimax phones in Russia, Taiwan and Korea. LTE still has a lot of issues it has to solve before it can make any claims.

Once Wimax phones become available and Wimax 2 (802.16m) becomes standard, with peak download speeds of 300 Mbs the majority of companies will gravitate towards Wimax.

@wombraider Before you start throwing around the word moron, you might want to try looking in the mirror when you do it, since to neglected to walk into this without the complete set of facts. Fact 1) Wimax is here and operating right now. Fact 2) Because Wimax is an open standard, devices will be more plentiful and cheaper because carriers and vendors don’t control it like LTE. Fact 3) FTW the theoretic cap for LTE is 100mbps and yes it will be faster than Wimax…AT FIRST. You see Wimax has a theoretic cap 10x higher, that would be 1GBPS which means no matter how great LTE will be when it gets going, It’s losing now because it’s not here, and it will lose in the end because it will end up being by comparison, slower than a snail through molasses. GAME, SET, MATCH