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WiMax lost against LTE, says Alcatel-Lucent
Posted on 03. Feb, 2010 by LteWorld
in News, LTE
February 3, 2010 | ZDNet UK - The mobile industry has clearly chosen LTE over WiMax for the next generation of mobile broadband connectivity, a senior Alcatel-Lucent executive has said.
Patrick Plas, Alcatel-Lucent's chief operating officer for wireless, said on Monday that the company is "not putting a lot of effort into this technology [WiMax] any longer", adding that upcoming LTE launches by companies such as Verizon showed "a clear direction taken by the industry towards LTE".
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WiMax lost against LTE, say Alcatel-Lucent
Interesting comment this early in the game. Since this manufacturer has a vested interest in the phone company migration path as opposed to the processor migration path, it would seem self serving. I certainly think Intel would have something to say about it.
Given the significant head start WiMax has in the market, the similarities in technologies, cap ex dollar yet to be spent, spectrum deficiencies of many carriers for deployment of 4G, the plethora of other major manufacturers of WiMax equipment, lack of Patent pools for LTEi, etc. etc. etc. this COO better hope he is right, because if they abandon their WiMax efforts and are wrong, they could just find themselves following in the foot steps of Nortel.
Ignorance
This is a very simplistic and ignorant thing to say.