(keitai-l) Re: Super3G / Wimax

From: Benedict Evans <ben_at_ben-evans.com>
Date: 01/10/05
Message-ID: <11811.217.161.24.17.1105372866.spork@webmail.ben-evans.com>
As I see it 'Super3G' is mainly a talking shop that might feed into '4GPP'
- whatever that might be. After all, people did start talking about 3G 15
years or so ago. Vodafone's attitude to WiMax is 'nice idea, come back
when you've got a spec, then come back again when in works'.

Dressing it up as a fight might be reading too much into this - rather,
operators with 200m customers (and that's just Vod + DCM) aren't
especially interested in patiently waiting for whatever Intel is
graciously pleased to develop.

-BGE

> This is a Super3G / Wimax "current state of the nation" think piece
> that is probably of interest to casual observers of the scene.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/10/super_3g_group/
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> Question: is there any reason at all we should be rooting for
> Docomo/Vodaphone on this one, rather than Wimax?
>
> Nick
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Received on Mon Jan 10 18:01:10 2005