Does anyone know where the test results of WiMAX Baltimore are published? please tell me.
Thank You

2. Why can’t anyone tell me that if 20,000 people in Chicago are on Wi-MAX at the same time whether there will be problems or not?

3. Why would I need this if I have Comcast cable for my TV and internet connection in my home?

4. How many people at any given time are walking around the city with their laptops looking for an internet connection? I have never had to do that in my life and I am a CPA consultant.

5. I live in Zion, IL and am 50 miles from Chicago downtown and ride the metro train. Will I be able to connect in Zion, and send and receive emails from my laptop or my Nokia N810 Wi-Max Internet Tablet?

6. Some companies are saying that this is the next answer to cell phones. So I can throw away my cell phone and rely on Wi-Max and my laptop or N810 to talk to anybody in the world?

7. Why did Wi-Max fail in Australia?

Pricing for my residential DSL is $49.95 per month plus tax on a 2 year contract.
Pricing for a home and a mobile XOHM (two devices) is $50.00 per month with no contract required.

I have tried many tests, including VOIP, RDP Remote Desktop, CITRIX,VPN to my work, bit torrent, pinging, youtube, Speakeasy TEST, FTP of large files, and Slingbox. In every single test the XOHM service blew the doors off of the DSL connection.

I travel quite a bit so i am keeping my Sprint / tethered Blackberry solution for out of town travel but in and around Baltimore I am now pretty much 100% XOHM.

Verizon Fios will be available in my area shortly and I image that Fios will likely provide a better connection than XOHM. However, XOHM is available now (in Baltimore), doesn’t require a contract, and is fast enough for all normal purposes that I might have for my residential internet. Setup was easy, and when I get some time I will see if it goes even faster if I move the “modem” from it current hiding place in the back of my basement to an area in the front of my house. So far anyway XOHM works as advertised and is a great deal at only $50.00 per month for two devices.

Great i have a question do you know if sprint is using 802.16e or .16m

If sprint is using .16e, is it just a software upgrade or full hardware to get to .16m

I’m a member of the WiMAX Forum (standards settign body for WiMAX) and also of the 3GPP2 (standards setting body for LTE). I can safely say I know both technologies, and they are surely comparable, I would argue even more than 80% the same. In fact the only reason they are not also compaTable is politics (Intel = non-telecom is behind WiMAX, which is easily witnessed as the WiMAX Forum Chairman is also Development Director of Intel worldwide. 3GPP2 = friends-circle of the big telcos is behind LTE. These two boedies don’t like each oter).

I agree with some that it will be a benefit to have choice. Choice of providers of services (AT&T, Sprint, etc.) is important, choice of non-compatible technologies leads to inefficiencies. I can reassure you though: already system-on-a-chip manufacturers are planning handsets capable of both WiMAX and LTE combined. In fact they will be capable of WiMAX, LTE, GSM and CDMA. How does this work? Such devices have a Baseband and several RF (Radio frequency) radios. If properly engineered this Baseband can serve for all these technologies, and sends the signal in a uniform way to the RF radios. Your device has a few RF radios for GSM (4 GSM radios if it is a quad-band worldphone), two for CDMA, one of two for WiMAX (one for 2300-2700MHz and one for 3400-3700MHz), and one or two for LTE (likely 600-800Mhz and 2100-2200Mhz). Every radio adds costto the manufacturing of the device. If you fancy to roam accross all these technologies you take a device capable of all these, which means that you could – say – take your AT&T GSM device and roam on WiMAX whilst on holiday in the Dominican Republic’s beaches, or perhaps take your Sprint XOHM WiMAX device in Baltimore and roam on Sprint’s CDMA network whilst om business in New York (and CDMA-RevA lower data connection speed).

WiMAX has two flarvors with one new one coming up.
802.16d-2004: Fixed WiMAX. Dying a slow but sure death, not compatible to 802.16e-2005.
802.16e-2005: Mobile WiMAX. All recent commercial deployments in the world use this.
802.16m: Mobile WiMAX standard about to be published (draft widely agreed in the WiMAX Forum). Will be fully backwards compatible to 802.16e-2005. This standard has same performance goals as LTE,a nd both are likely to be approved by the ITU as 4G technologies, (largely 4G means above 100Mbps download speeds whilst moving at high speed). NOTE: LTE standard is a draft, 802.16m standard is a draft.

The WiMAX Foum has standards for TDD (time Division Duplexing) and now makes them for FDD. LTE is planning FDD standards and recently decided to also make them for TDD. So even this will be the same soon, (again note that soon is important because LTE does not yet exists formally, so it is ALL about ’soon’, somethign often forgotten).

I’m happy to share more insights directly from inside the standards setting bodies, just ask.

WiMax is not 80% OFDMA… Access to resource is also part of the standard. Frequency Band of the technology, Carrier choice (crapy 2.5 Ghz or in worts scenario 3.5 Ghz) WiMax is not good at this.
HSPA is doing a good work at it 850 Mhz, good accessibility and mobility performance.
Wi Fi… What for???, i got signal everywhere.

My express card was cheaper (for free in 2 years contract). No need for credit card on line and all that waste of time on the network and looking for a store to buy it.

1. WiMAX and LTE are OFDMA technology. They are almost 80% the same. WiMAX has time to market advantage now. LTE will catch up especially since big carriers like Verizon and Vodafone announced they will go LTE.

2. Yes, WiMAX was approved as a 3G technology. But so what…you can be called any name…they key thing here is performance. If WiMAX and LTE perform, at certain time, similarlily and LTE will be called 4G (once they finish defining the 4G) then WiMAX version m can be called 4G.

3. Personally, I think the big operators are going to fight WiMAX since they already invested in WCDMA or CDMA 1X EV-Do Rev A. For those who are following the GSM route, LTE is the natural migration path and they will fight WiMAX. For those who are CDMA 1X based, LTE will be a good migration path to bring them back into the main stream GSM-route. Verizon is working with Motorola on testing this CDMA-LTE migration path and I personally think it is a smart move since GSM proved to be the Global cellular standard of choice and no sense of keep fighting this in North America. LTE can be the road where all different parts of the world can meet.

3.WiMAX comes in 2 flavors: Fixed (d) and Mobile (e). Clearwire has lots of pre-WiMAX equipment but their plan is to go to Mobile WiMAX. In fact, most class 1/big vendors support the (e) version alone. Other smaller vendors support the (d) and some of them even the (e) version.

4. In my view, if the big operators focus on WCDMA and LTE, then WiMAX will be a niche market (may be 15-20%) of the overall wireless market….but I think it presents a good opportunity for new operators to get in this industry without paying heavy license fees (as we have seen so far worldwide).

5. In conclusion, I think competition is good. WiMAX will have a chance since Intel is behind it. All of us take WiFi for granted now when we are in a hotspot because our laptops are equipped with it. Once Intel support WiMAX (same as WiFi) then we all would not mind that especially when you can access the Internet from a City-wide hotspot using WiMAX. In fact, Intel already announced WiFi/WiMAX chip set and has plans on embedding this into laptops (I know Ericsson is supporting strongly embedding EV-DO into laptops as well).

6. All in all, let consumers have a choice…..thins will benefit all of us.