My dear Vitor Domingos, that’s why WiMAX is going to kick ass. One clear sign of such truth was when Nokia pushed N810 WiMAX Edition with Spring in the USA.
Posted by: Paulo Pires | February 28, 2009
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wait, the discontinued one?
http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=5986
btw, that’s the second post you mentioned the N810 in a very short period of time, but you never elaborate on it… c’mon, I want to hear the geeky stuff you’re doing with it!
By: Freelance Samurai on February 28, 2009
at 11:12 pm
Yes it is discontinued, but let’s not look at that fact as being deterministic.
Sprint, the Nokia’s partner on this game failed to its commitment of deploying WiMAX in major cities like NY and San Francisco. Even that it wasn’t a good business call you can’t simply ignore that in terms of technology it was a huge step.
I strongly believe that as soon as WiMAX networks get massively deployed, things like N810 WiMAX Edition and Intel’s new laptops with WiMAX built-in will be ready to go.
Now, about your curiosity on the things that I’m doing with my N810.. If you paid attention to a previous post of mine, I’ve made of my device a Mobile IPv6 mobile-node and it’s becoming my main testing platform for my work on 802.21 aka MIH.
By: Paulo Pires on February 28, 2009
at 11:26 pm
Errr.. and btw, WiMAX in the US operates in different frequencies than in Europe, for instance. Nokia WiMAX Edition is only usable in the states, and that’s why I didn’t buy one.
By: Paulo Pires on February 28, 2009
at 11:27 pm
Unfortunately I can’t see WiMax picking up in Europe.
With the current economy status, no one will undergo massive investments to deploy a new WiMax Network in Europe, when LTE can be easily deployed on top of the 3G network.
WiMax had it’s time 2 years ago, at least in Europe.
Why do I keep say Europe? Because I see a bright future for wimax in development countries where the cost of deploying 3G/LTE surpasses the cost of WiMax several times..
By: Diogo Gomes on March 1, 2009
at 12:30 am
I bought an N810 as well.
However I have little or no faith in wimax, having into account that big players are pulling the plug on it (and as in big players I mean hardware vendors for telcos). Another problem is that as a provider you can’t really upsell wimax solutions, it’s something brand new that you had to deploy as it doesn’t leverage on anything you’d already had rolled out as a telco.
I share Diogo’s vision, if you don’t have a proper 3G network setup, if next generation GSM is not in your grasp, maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea invest in wimax (maybe). I can see wimax ISP’s popping up in the future, but have seeing it being deployed by sprint like you said, or AT&T requires an investment that would probably not pay off, having into account the penetration that 3G enabled devices are already in the market.
Services like boingo.com could leverage on wimax, but to justify the investment you’d need wimax enabled devices, and those are scarce (and I’m being nice here).
I’m much more enthusiastic about the use put to the frequency spectrum now being used for analog television. And mildly enthusiastic about next generation GSM coverage (more of the same, but faster, how excited can I be as a customer?)
I could be wrong on all accounts. wouldn’t be the first time, either.
By: Freelance Samurai on March 1, 2009
at 3:04 am
dgomes you’re right that on Europe and other regions with massive 3G deployment, it’ll be hard for operators to catch the WiMAX train. But we can see some deployments already (Cyprus, India, Brazil) that I believe will make all the difference.
By: Paulo Pires on March 23, 2009
at 1:38 pm