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Recently IP Telephony ran an article, “Is WiMAX all things to all markets?” The article quoted Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology Officer for Motorola, who said that WiMAX is technologically and economically positioned to be all broadband things to most markets because of its ability to offer ‘Affordable, always-on personal broadband’. I agree with this assertion. It can offer high speed, portable connectivity as well as an always-connected environment for today’s mobile professional workforce.
What do you think, and what do you believe are the challenges and killer apps?
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I agree with the assertion by Motorola's CTO that WiMAX will "be all broadband things to most markets". This is needed for the bandwidth intensive multi-media content services that ISPs will like to offer to the consumer market. This also threatens the 3G network upgrade by the carriers. Why will someone want a cellular device when you can have a WiMAX mobile device? You can see that the Cellular mobile carriers are now offering residential cellular base stations known as Femtocells to increase their coverage which directly competes against WiFi and WiMAX.
if WiMAX is the answer, why are carriers and mobile service providers working on Femtocells?
WiMAX is the long term answer if consumers are to enjoy and subscribe to all the bandwidth hungry multi-media content. Today's 2G and 2.5G networks are very limited in bandwidth especially in the US. The US carriers are very slow in launching their 3G networks.
What do most users want from the next-generation of wireless connectivity?
Martha_B asks if people want to be always connected - If you mean constantly working, then the answer is no, but actually WiMAX and the promise of being always connected is much more than this. It's the device that's always connected, not the person - So down the line a hand-held device could alert us that the store we just walked past, which we've bought from before, has a sale running, or tell us that our friend happens to be in the next street or any of hundreds of innovative applications. Always remember that we have the ultimate choice about connection - the technologies don't control us.
What does the cancelling of the Sprint/Clearwire venture say about the future viability of Wi-Max? I think real large scale commercial deployments will not happen as soon as we all thought.
One big challenge will be the availability and cost of devices to support it.
Do most people want to be “always connected”? Security is also an issue, how is that being addressed?