This is news of November 9, where have you been John boy?


On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:43:17 GMT, John Navas
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> "On the one hand, pulling out of the agreement with Clearwire is a
> pragmatic decision on the part of Sprint Nextel, which is focusing on
> more immediate priorities of CUSTOMER RETENTION while it seeks a new
> CEO. On the other hand, it is a setback for WiMAX in that it both
> confirms the riskiness of a strategy to move quickly to mobile WiMAX,
> and it slows the momentum behind WiMAX," says Katrina Bond, principal
> analyst at Analysys. [emphasis added]
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> According to Bond this is a step backwards for WiMAX, after an
> otherwise positive year in which several small operators have
> launched or started rolling out commercial WiMAX services, and Sprint
> Nextel announced plans to deploy WiMAX for its future mobile
> broadband services. The ITU decision last month to accept WiMAX as a
> 3G technology that meets the IMT-2000 requirements was another
> positive step for the WiMAX community, but it was not enough to give
> Sprint Nextel’s senior management sufficient confidence in their
> ability to sell the idea of WiMAX to their next CEO.
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> This latest development could reduce the window of opportunity for
> benefiting from WiMAX, which will depend on the speed with which it
> evolves in comparison with W-CDMA and HSPA. Mobile WiMAX and
> W-CDMA/HSPA are evolving in the same direction and by the time the
> next generations (802.16m and LTE, respectively) become available
> (2009 at the earliest), they will be technically very similar. Both
> mobile WiMAX and LTE use OFDM as a modulation scheme and their
> supporters are aiming to meet the ITU's 4G requirement of 100Mbit/s
> data rates in a mobile environment. Furthermore, future cellular base
> stations are likely to be equipped with both technologies.
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> "Officially, Sprint Nextel says that it remains committed to WiMAX.
> However, there inevitably will be speculation regarding whether or
> when Sprint Nextel may decide to join the growing band of operators,
> including rival Verizon Wireless, in pursuing LTE as their next
> generation of cellular network. Although Nextel does have experience
> in differentiating itself with a different technology to the pack,
> and pursuing a WiMAX would be an aggressive strategy, the choice of
> LTE is likely to be viewed as a less risky move by investors," says
> Bond.
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>LTE stands for 3GPP Long Term Evolution, follow-on to HSPA, based on
>OFDM, planned for deployment in 2009.