LTE vs. Wi-Max

[BigDiesel07]

Originally Posted by blue4shizzle

ah... that is extremely unlikely to happen regardless anyway... gsm is a whole differnt type of technology (not assuming you didnt know this already). if they was to do what you mentioned... then they would have to set up a whole new set of towers to use that are gsm based for their handsets.. while at the same time keeping up with the towers that support cdma phones.. as we all know, they are renting them out as it is anyway lol. as much as we would want that, i seriously doubt that it would ever happen.. even if pigs flew and hell froze over.

Oh yeah... I knew that... Verizon is going to LTE.. And they use CDMA now..

Originally Posted by savior02

seems to me the only thing u win is pride until your contract is up than u probably switch because LTE is supposed to be faster than wimax.....

Supposed is the key word... LTE is quoted at 100 Mbps and Wi-Max is quoted at 70Mbps.. Obviously that is theoretical... It all depends on what the actual throughput is..

[blue4shizzle]

doesnt matter.. they are two diff carriers in two different situations.. you dont see sprint going around gimping their products and selling em for a higher price do ya?

[Tiberius85]

Its also about getting Wi-Max to be installed on laptops. Lets be honest here.. our current generation (and probably for the next 5 years) will not be able to HANDLE that kind of throughput nevermind actually need it. Basically if its over 10Mbps it might as well be 1000Mbps on a phone. A laptop will use it and Sprint (and other wi-max carriers) are hoping hardware manufacturers install it on them.The whole network model is set up NOT to be like a typical cellphone contract or plan. Will LTE be the same thing the 3G networks are today just faster?

[BigDiesel07]

Good point Tiber.. I am curious for all that voted.. Are you voting on who you think will win or who you want to win?

[Rizer]

Sprint has already invested a very LARGE sum of money towards WIMAX and if they dont get WIMAX working, then it will be the fall of sprint. Not to worry because I found out my company is signing contracts with sprint now to test WIMAX next year. Yeah I still have job.

[Darkflame808]

Everyone is on the LTE bandwagon simply because............


Everyone is on the LTE bandwagon.

Simple as that. To be successful in other parts of the world. You have to be innovative. To be successfull in the US, you need to ride on the cotails of bigger corporations and your competitors. If you attempt to be innovative by providing more bang for the consumers buck. the larger corporations will just muscle you out.

You got two choices.....
LTE or Wimax

To the consumer it's as simple as that. To network carriers it's not..You have two other choices....

Go with what everyone else is offering or go on your own.

To go on your own puts you in a you against them.
To go with the status quo puts you in a "us" against you.

The problem here is that now you have a technology that's spread across 4 networks. and one sole network trying to run it's own technology.

This is setting you up for a failure...If you are sprint, and I am verizon or tmobile or at&t.

Any one of these companies can go to the table and say hey fellas. How about we open up our 4G networks to each other, this would boost our abilities to provide better service for our consumers. <---some b.s like they really care about us but really it's just to cover their butts in a monopolistic challenge with the fcc.

They all say sure thing!

Now you got sprint touting 4g service, then you got verizon/at&t/tmobile touting the same service with 3 times the coverage...now people jump ship and divide themselves amongst the three carriers.

Now sprint goes kaput. Then the three carriers soup up all the displaced customers. Then setup an equalized pricing scheme. Verizon/tmobile and at&t all charging the same prices for the same service since essentially they are all tied in together. Now it's just a matter of time before the merger falls in then you have one giant company running the show.

Whoa......all that cause sprint chose to stay the lone ranger.

"There's innovation and there's US (united states)"

[blue4shizzle]

honestly, as much as i love sprint.. i really see that wimax is their last shot to bring some life back into their cave... if wimax doesnt come through for them, then yeah.. its going to be a wrap for them.. but im optimistic, i think wimax would be a pretty good thing to bank on, but we'll see