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The Road To WiMAX
By Larry Hendrick | August 24, 2007
Business Week takes a good, long look at the past and present of WiMax in this article dated for next week. Chronicling the consensus building discussions beginning in 2002, the article covers a lot of ground bringing us up to the present contentions between the WiMax supporters and Qualcomm.
Interested in the debate? This will get you up-to-date.
The Road To WiMAX
The battle over the future of wireless broadband services is far from over. Qualcomm Chief Operating Officer Sanjay Jha insists the chip designer is still in a good position. In April it hedged its bets by purchasing WiMAX technologies from chipmaker TeleCIS Wireless Inc., raising the possibility that it could demand royalties on WiMAX devices.Much of WiMAX’s hopes in the U.S. rest with the weakest of the phone carriers, Sprint. And right now, the technology gobbles power and limits battery life on portable devices, so improvements will be needed to speed adoption. “To get to the mass market, with better devices and lower prices, we’ll have to wait at least another year, to 2009,” cautions analyst Monica Paolini, with market researcher Senza Fili Consulting.
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