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What roles will broadband wireless assume?

Analyst thinks LTE will serve handsets; WiMAX, data devices
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What roles will broadband wireless assume?

Joanie Wexler By Joanie Wexler
There are a lot of unknowns that get in the way when trying to predict what roles the various mobile broadband technologies will settle into over time. One is simply that it's difficult to get proponents of each camp to state what speeds end user services will actually support. Though that seems like a straightforward question, inherently is only as good as the amount of spectrum the operator has, how many people are on the network at once, how the operator implements the service, the size of the backhaul network...the list goes on. Read full story

Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in Silicon Valley.

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