re: Samsung Mobilizes WiBroIt seems to me, Qualcomm with the Flarion Flash-OFDM is getting REAL major deployments inside and outside US markets. China + Japan NTT is doing trials using VSF-OFDM along with your news here on Samsung WiBro testing. I'd say Intel is probably on the same line with Samsung and NTT. I don't know much on the TI side? anybody care to add comments more ...
re: Samsung Mobilizes WiBroNot sure. These companies will likely be major players; but it is unlikely that the other big fish like Motorola, Ericsson, Nortel, Alcatel, Nokia and the like will not aggressively push for their slice of the market. The interesting thing to me is whether any startup (well, we can safely omit Flarion for now) can make it in this space?
re: Samsung Mobilizes WiBroAnyone else getting the sense that the next generation of broadband wireless is going to be in the hands of just a few companies, namely Intel, Qualcomm and maybe Samsung if they can push WiBro hard enough?
re: Samsung Mobilizes WiBroWhere has Flarion deployed within US (not a sarcastic question, I honestly dont remember hearing any, vaguely recall something about it being used for a public-safety or municipal application somewhere)? It seems now that every camp is now converging on OFDM (and some variant thereof) for their next generation wireless; the only company that was holding out was Qualcomm and that will be no longer the case with the Flarion deal. Hard to say who will win or predict likely winners in this space. Intel might be the only somewhat safe bet to do well here, simply because of their overwhelming advantage and presence in the non-handset space (notebooks, PDAs etc)
re: Samsung Mobilizes WiBroFlarion has previously announced U.S. deals at Aloha Partners and Cellular One of Amarillo, a high-profile trial at Nextel, and a public safety network project in Washington D.C.
re: Samsung Mobilizes WiBrowhen you say "in the hands of", what do you mean? I think it will only be a handful of companies that in the long term will provide base technologies (i.e chipsets) that the rest of the infra vendors will build into their products. I think the current 'balkanization' of the BWA technology landscape is unsustainable and after further consolidation a la Flarion there will truly only be a few companies controlling their own and the acquired IPR. isn't that what the VCs pumping money into the plethora of tech shops ultimately want?
re: Samsung Mobilizes WiBrowhy on earth would anyone call 802.16 or Flash-OFDM "4G".
Surely this is simply a re-run of the 2G fight where everyone thought that 2G = GSM + TDMA and then along came IS95. In retrospect we now include CDMA within "2G" so surely wont we eventually call WiMAX et al "3G" or maybe "3.5G"??
DJ
It seems now that every camp is now converging on OFDM (and some variant thereof) for their next generation wireless; the only company that was holding out was Qualcomm and that will be no longer the case with the Flarion deal. Hard to say who will win or predict likely winners in this space. Intel might be the only somewhat safe bet to do well here, simply because of their overwhelming advantage and presence in the non-handset space (notebooks, PDAs etc)
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Most recently the company scored a small commercial deployment at Citizens, a service provider based in rural southwest Virginia:
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Surely this is simply a re-run of the 2G fight where everyone thought that 2G = GSM + TDMA and then along came IS95. In retrospect we now include CDMA within "2G" so surely wont we eventually call WiMAX et al "3G" or maybe "3.5G"??
DJ