Clearwire: Just Say No

[Steve Stroh]

All true, but it seems likely that Clearwire will reserve a portion  
of their system capacity (spectrum, radios, towers, antennas, etc.)  
for providing service to customers with legacy devices and just wait  
for the customers to be attracted to the better performance of their  
mobile WiMAX systems (whenever they eventually are available).


Thanks,

Steve


On Jan 26, 2007, at Jan 26  03:42 PM, Yournet at hotmail.com wrote:

> Clearwire's current products are not 802.16 based. They are NextNet  
> (now
> part of Motorola) OFDM-256 FFT TDD based.  I would be leary of  
> investint in
> a PCMCIA card because of performance issues and the fact that they  
> will
> eventually shift to 802.16e-2005 (WiMAX universal mobile version)  
> based
> system similar to that to be deployed by Sprint-Nextel next year.   
> None of
> Clearwire's current products will work or are upgradeable to  
> WiMAX.  There
> will be at least two vendors who provide end use CPEs/SUs, USB  
> dongles and
> PCMCIA cards that will work at both 2.3 GHz and 2.5 GHz  frequency  
> bands
> used in the U.S., Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and other regions as  
> well as
> being able to operate (given roaming agreements of course) between  
> other
> operators in 2.5 GHz band.
>

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