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  • Viodi View – 01/23/09

    Something is different this third week in January. No, I am not talking about the historic inauguration of the first U.S. President born in the 1960s, but I am referring to missing this week’s OPASTCO’s Winter Convention. Unfortunately, we did not get our act together and, consequently, did not produce ViodiTV at this OPASTCO Convention.…

  • Where are the WiMAX MIDs?

    Did you notice the absence of any major WiMAX device announcements at CES? With all the talk by Sprint and Clearwire about mobile WiMAX at the show, we were expecting a raft of WiMAX capable Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) to be announced at CES. We were disappointed. After conversing with attendees and scouring the web,…

  • Viodi View – 1/7/09 Issue

    As we enter the last year of the first decade of the third millennium, it seems like it was just yesterday that we were at the dawn of Y2K. Then we had the big tech meltdown, along with what was the biggest tax cut in history. Here we are again with the start of another…

  • Are LTE and mobile WiMAX really 4G networks? A look at ITU-R IMT Advanced attributes

    Introduction There have been several recent articles comparing and contrasting LTE vs. mobile WiMAX as potential 4G network technologies. Indeed, SPRINT and Clearwire have been marketing their WiMAX offering as a 4G service. But is it really 4G? Is LTE a 4G technology? What about ultra-wideband? It turns out that no broadband wireless technology can…

  • Update on Mobile WiMAX- is it really mobile (or only for wireless fixed line access)?

    Over one year ago, I wrote an article titled: Will the real mobile WiMAX please stand up: http://www.viodi.com/newsletter/061000/article2.pdf The claim then was that IEEE 802.16e (AKA Mobile WiMAX) would be primarily used for fixed line BWA. Not much has changed in the last 18 months. Recently, there’ve been some encouraging announcements from Clearwire, Digital Bridge…

  • Desperately Sprinting Ahead

    Clever product placement ad for Sprint in tonight’s episode of Desperate Housewives. It may not have been so obvious except that before and after the placement, Sprint had commercials featuring their CEO, Dan Hesse. Hesses’s message was that the network is built, that we are just starting to realize the power of the phones and…