Is WiMax the New CDMA?
More lessons from the wireless past
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6:00 PM -- The new Clearwire LLC (Nasdaq: CLWR) venture makes it near-certain that a nationwide mobile WiMax network will be deployed in the U.S. while AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless are pushing ahead with the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) -approved LTE technology.
Sounds like 4G will be just like 3G and 2G, doesn't it? The battle between two opposing standards with Long-Term Evolution already seems more favored worldwide.
So it's worth considering -- will mobile WiMax become the 21st century version of CDMA to LTE's GSM?— Dan Jones, Site Editor, Unstrung
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