xenophon
join:2007-09-17
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
2 edits | Qualcomm making it easier
Qualcomm is making it easier as they will be coming out with CDMA/LTE (and HSPA?) chipsets and base station cards. It may just be a card upgrade in the cellsites rather than a forklift upgrade.
If it turns out to be relatively cheap and easy to migrate CDMA to LTE, don't be surprised if Sprint also goes LTE in 5-7 years or so when Verizon does. Sprint will probably be owned by someone else by then anyway to help fund the upgrade.
WiMAX could become their consumer products wireless division and LTE becomes the cellphone division. Just speculating... |
|
en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| I think there's a lot of money to be made during the 2010 Olympics (international roaming) that Bell/Telus have been currently losing to Rogers. Rogers (GSM) does actually sell WiMAX wireless service as well 
I suspect there will be different overall uses for WiMAX and LTE though.
WiMAX may end up more in various devices, I suspect a lot of 'non retail' devices, but more industrial or b2b in addition to many niche products. HSPA/LTE are too tied into the old corp mobile industry at the retail level for handsets.
--
Canada = Hollywood North |
|
brad
join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON
| said by en102  :Rogers (GSM) does actually sell WiMAX wireless service as well Bell has the exact same service offering, but to be clear it is NOT WiMAX. |
|
Deadpool
Go Sens Go
Premium,VIP
join:2001-03-29
Canada
·Bell Sympatico
| said by brad :said by en102 :Rogers (GSM) does actually sell WiMAX wireless service as well Bell has the exact same service offering, but to be clear it is NOT WiMAX. Huh? It's ClearWire's WiMax technology they're using.
In fact, on the biz side it's promoted as 'WiMax in Home', for example.
So, how is it NOT WiMax?
--
Disclaimer: If I express an opinion, it is my own opinion, not that of Bell or its related companies. |
|
mlerner
Premium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
·Rogers Hi-Speed
·TekSavvy Solutions..
·Bell Sympatico
| said by Deadpool :said by brad :said by en102 :Rogers (GSM) does actually sell WiMAX wireless service as well Bell has the exact same service offering, but to be clear it is NOT WiMAX. Huh? It's ClearWire's WiMax technology they're using. In fact, on the biz side it's promoted as 'WiMax in Home', for example. So, how is it NOT WiMax? It is based on pre-wimax standards but it is in fact a proprietary wireless protocol. |
|
phoneboy3
@shawcable.net | reply to brad
Actually it is kinda. We are talking about the Inukshuk network jointly owned by Bell/Rogers. It is pre-WiMAX but really it is more or less exactly the same as the ratified fixed WiMAX standard. |
|
patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| reply to xenophon
said by xenophon :Qualcomm is making it easier as they will be coming out with CDMA/LTE (and HSPA?) chipsets and base station cards. It may just be a card upgrade in the cellsites rather than a forklift upgrade. If it turns out to be relatively cheap and easy to migrate CDMA to LTE, don't be surprised if Sprint also goes LTE in 5-7 years or so when Verizon does. Sprint will probably be owned by someone else by then anyway to help fund the upgrade. WiMAX could become their consumer products wireless division and LTE becomes the cellphone division. Just speculating... Qualcomm got their patents into UTMS/HSDPA, so why do they need their proprietary CDMA standard to make them money? They just sit back and watch the $ roll in. |
|
