David Robinson, vice-president of new business planning for Rogers Wireless — a member of the WiMax Forum steering body — said the company was waiting on consumer devices to be introduced before committing full investment in WiMax.
Rogers, in partnership with Bell Canada, is testing an early WiMax technology through its Inukshuk joint venture.
Robinson said the announcements by Intel and Asustek were encouraging votes of confidence for the technology.
"That's a very favourable sign for WiMax," he said. The deployment of WiMax-enabled consumer devices is "critical" to Rogers' investment decisions, he added.
Come on N810WE... but hey, between Nokia and Rogers, maybe they could market... i don't know.. anything. This technology deserves better then to be gossiped about on internet forums and digging around on google to find bits of info.
WiMax is just not available everywhere right now; at least not as availaible as open unprotected WiFi routers
I just don't see the point with all the fanboyism around a WiMax device.
bell and rogers will just try to sell us an expensive an spotty wifi service; as spotty as the previously mentionned "open" wifi routers.
but I'm ok with the WiMax fanboys as long as one of them sell me his used N810 for cheap when he gets his N810WE
WiMAX, when it gets deployed (i.e. 3 years from now) will be a lot more available than open APs in some places; particularly rural areas along major highways.
WiMAX, when it gets deployed (i.e. 3 years from now) will be a lot more available than open APs in some places; particularly rural areas along major highways.
If it's not available right now, I wouldn't put money on a virtual promise with a vaporous deployement strategy. if Bell or Rogers share holders say NO 6 month from now, then you will be f..... If CRTC tell the industry to put it on hold and stop irradiate people with antennas... to many things can happen including switching to a non-backward-compatible-WiMegaMaxTurboCharged-Twin-cammed protocol along the way.
you can always try to explain how you see the future to the guys who got a new HD-DVD player 4 month ago.... (BetaMax was way better than VHS)
The, rather obvious, failure of this analogy here is that WiMAX really doesn't have a competing standard.
would you buy an hydrogen car right now on promises of nationwide refueling stations in 3 years ?
my point is we are better wait for results before spending our hard earned money on a device and expect corporations to stay true to the WiMax plan FOR THE NEXT 3 YEARS.
my point is we are better wait for results before spending our hard earned money on a device and expect corporations to stay true to the WiMax plan FOR THE NEXT 3 YEARS.
I don't think the General (or anyone else) is suggesting that everyone rush out and purchase N810 WiMAX Edition tablets and wait for WiMAX to arrive someday, maybe. Instead, GA suggested that equating WiMAX to HD DVD (no dash) is flawed. Unlike HD DVD, WiMAX isn't floundering due to the efforts of a competitor. Instead, in Australia, and now in the U.S., it's floundering due to the efforts (or lack thereof) of its own proponents.
If it's not available right now, I wouldn't put money on a virtual promise with a vaporous deployement strategy. if Bell or Rogers share holders say NO 6 month from now, then you will be f..... If CRTC tell the industry to put it on hold and stop irradiate people with antennas... to many things can happen including switching to a non-backward-compatible-WiMegaMaxTurboCharged-Twin-cammed protocol along the way.
you can always try to explain how you see the future to the guys who got a new HD-DVD player 4 month ago.... (BetaMax was way better than VHS)
You, for your part, can explain how you see the future:
bell and rogers will just try to sell us an expensive an spotty wifi service; as spotty as the previously mentionned "open" wifi routers.
to the people who bought Blu-ray. Even if you really think LTE does represent the same competition as blu vs. hd, predicting complete failure of one is just as silly as the other. And, unless mad cows run APs, in which case my yankee experiences wouldn't apply, it would take complete failure (which could stop deployment partway on some corridor) to make it anywhere near as spotty as open APs in the situation I mentioned.
You, for your part, can explain how you see the future
What I was trying to tell is that's it's just way too early to predict the future, way to many things can go wrong including stopped investment related to a recession or some unknown decisions by the new owners of Bell Canada (Teachers).
My buddy here at work brought in his Rogers portable internet (which I assume was WiMAX). I won't go into how big and awkward the modem was, but the service was flakey. As mentioned before in this thread, it had to be near a window and tended to drop or work at reduced speed often. That said, I don't know if that was a result of the service itself, or the modem being sub par.
WiMAX, when it gets deployed (i.e. 3 years from now) will be a lot more available than open APs in some places; particularly rural areas along major highways.
And 3 years from now is a loooong time in the computing world. By then, I am sure there will have been more editions of the N8xx or whatever it will be by then
