Posts filed under 'WiMax'
By: Albert S
Sprint announced the availability of XOHM this month, starting with Baltimore then moving onto Chicago, Washington D.C, Boston, Philadelphia, and Dallas-Fort Worth. Did you catch the serious omission here? Los Angeles! Punks.
Anyways, for those of you unfamiliar with the technology, XOHM uses the 4G WiMAX network to deliver wireless hotspots across the entire city at speeds of 2-4Mbps. That’s pretty tremendous if you think about it…home broadband speeds anywhere you go? Oh, thou charmed city of Baltimore, here I come.
Read more about it here.
[engadget]
September 3rd, 2008
If I’m not mistaken, broadband penetration currently sits above 50% in the US. Hard to believe, but it does, at least according to the last set of reports I read. Course, this could mean these folks are sporting something over 128Kbps, which is obnoxiously slow in my book. Now, according to PCWorld, broadband penetration will hit 77% by 2012. What’s the upside of this? Perhaps the networks will begin concentrating on our connection quality versus distribution. Daily my Internet connection is problematic. It’s not that I can’t download a file at a reasonable speed, it’s that I can’t request websites quickly (talking over 50ms). The reason for the penetration will be attributable to 4G, such as Wimax.
July 28th, 2008
There isn’t a ton to tell here, but WiMax, from Sprint, will be available for public use starting September 2008. Unfortunately, it will only be available in the Baltimore area (why there, I don’t know) and hit Washington D.C and Chicago by the end of the year.
[TheRegister]
June 19th, 2008
Are you sick and tired of Comcast and TimeWarner? Would you ditch your Cable company if you could get a decent Internet connect else where? Well, in 2010 Clearwire is promising to make Wimax available for wholesale access. Course this means Comcast or TW could buy in and resell it (they’re actually a partner on it, but not THE owner), but since it’s a high speed, go any where wireless signal we wouldn’t be stricken to a few providers based on geographical location. Clearwire is reporting download speeds up to 6Mbs and upload 3Mbs.
On the flip side, since they’re will only be one provider of such a service, at least for the foreseeable future, they can grossly inflate the price for service. Argggg!
Check what Clearwire is promising (bulleted list) after the ‘leap’
- “New Clearwire will permit consumers to use any lawful device that they want so long as it is compatible with and not harmful to the WiMAX network
- “New Clearwire also will permit consumers to download and use any software applications, content, or services they desire, subject only to reasonable network management practices and law enforcement and public safety considerations
- “New Clearwire will offer non-exclusive wholesale access to its network
- “New Clear wire will deploy an advanced mobile WiMAX broadband network that will cover up to 140 million people in the United States in 30 months”
[Arstechnica]
June 13th, 2008
Altair Semiconductor is stepping into the 4G arena by developing WiMax chips. They claim their chips are more efficient than their competitor’s, using 3 times less energy, and are really small measuring just 7mm (I assume squared). The chips will be shown off later this year and will be ideal for mobile devices.
[Gigaom]
March 10th, 2008
