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Nokia affirmed its commitment to Long Term evolution (LTE) technology and said it would have devices for LTE networks in 2010, according to a company executive.
James Harper, Nokia's senior manager of technology marketing, did not say specifically what kind of devices Nokia would produce, but did indicate that they would be highly data-intensive devices. Harper was speaking at a Portable Computer and Communications Association meeting held in Grapevine, Texas.
Harper declined to say what carriers would offer the devices. So far, U.S. carriers Verizon Wireless, and recently MetroPCS, have said they plan on having commercial deployments of LTE by 2010.
Harper also dismissed WiMAX as a 4G standard, calling it a "niche play," and saying that the technology's lack of backwards compatibility and a clear roadmap were major drawbacks. Nokia ended production of its N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition in January, but was one of the early device partners for Sprint Nextel's Xohm WiMAX efforts.
For more:
- see this GigaOM post
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Comments
Posted by Anonymous | March 6, 2009 - 1:11am
Nokia's dismissal of WIMAX as a niche technology will severely hits their bottom lines and market position going forward. WHere my predictions stand in accuracy with regard to the telecommunicaitons, technology, devices and a way of life plays big with WImax (802.16E). All other wireless technologies, CDMA, CDMAONE, CDMA2000, WCDMA, Rev.A and B, delivered today by carriers around the world are not close to the delivery of the serivces promised long ago and have yet to deliver.
WIMAX will, and has a better result than LTE.. LTE is just a technology that helps 2G, 3G, GSM and CDMA carriers to migrate an already challenged network. Changing devices on customers in mid stream with any deliver to what you have today and it will fail. WiMAX starts and delvers out of tracks with devices and a clean entry into the market of potential entrants that will trump the current major players.
Watch For SPRINT and Clearwire. Does anyone know what some of the earlier technology inventors are working on.
If I owned stock in AT&T, Verizon, Vodofone, Cable & WIreless, and I would sell them because they are going to feel the financial impact of customer churn with Clearwire and SPrint at full tilt in their operations. THere will be no competitive carrier to challenge what they will deliver Via WiMAX.
Look at holographics, 3D, HD, over WiMAX and the potential uses.
Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2009 - 10:30am
Nokia is the biggest handset manufacturer in the world. My money is with Nokia. Goodbye Wimax, you will go down as one of the most hyped technology that failed to deliver.
Posted by Anonymous | March 9, 2009 - 9:46am
data-only nlos broadband wireless is a money loser for service providers. got to have voice and text messaging in the mix. wimax is doa.
Posted by Anonymous | March 9, 2009 - 9:51am
Kiss WiMAX goodbye. It is just a matter of time
before Intel throws in the towel, IMO.
Posted by Realdata | March 10, 2009 - 12:22am
Folks who have no clue about WiMAX and LTE can look at all the LTE announcments and say, LTE is a guaranteed success. But reality is quite different. The royalty costs for LTE is going to be no different than 3G, because the 2 largest royalty earners Qcom ($1Billion royalty revenue) and Ericsson ($400 million royalty revenue) feel that they can just keep collecting and LTE will survive. In fact LTE will die because of this. In WiMAX the IP is owned by a lots of players with no one able to dominate and therefore the cheaper prices will make LTE increasingly hard to sell. Consumers in the new efficient economy will not overpay for mobile broadband service. My money is on WiMAX, no matter how much good LTE PR Ericsson and Qualcomm and Nokia can put out there. They are toast. Operators of the future (who are not ostriches) will less care about the technology, but more about owning the subscriber, no matter which technology they have to deploy. So goodbye LTE, roll-on WiMAX!
Posted by Nobias | March 10, 2009 - 12:26am
I'm a consumer, I will buy the cheapest technology. Today, WiMAX is cheaper than 3G modules and will most likely be cheaper than LTE modules as the big carriers want to take all my money away.
Posted by Nokiaater | March 10, 2009 - 12:29am
Hey Nokia will say anything to please the carriers. They once said WiMAX is great and tried to win business at Sprint, when they failed, they are no trying to win business at VZN, so they will say LTE is better.
Don't believe a single word Nokia or any of these 3G people say. It is a highly corrupt world.
Posted by Anonymous | April 6, 2009 - 6:11pm
Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's head of sales and manufacturing, Nokia, is dead wrong on WIMAX and it is going to come back to bite the company in the pocketbook. They have no choice but to take this position because of the fear of WiMAX taking hold as it will leaving its investment in GSM to be rendered useless. In addition to this they know if they start manufacturing WiMAX they is a patent license to pay to folks like WiLAN and Dr. Hatim Zaghloul.
I will bet my money on Craig McCaw and Intel every time. You under estimate someone as determined as Craig and you will loose everytime.
I will go as far as betting Vanjoki that I will wear a dress at the any CTIA event should LTE win out over WiMAX- There is something I know that he does not.
there were a lot of technologies likd HSDPA that was full on theory and short on delivery. GSM has yet to deliver on its promises to the marketplace; ask any AT&T customer.
Keith J. Walker
Chairman
AccessOne Barbados
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