[maemo-developers] Computerworld article

[From: Acadia Secure Networks]

Tony/Brad,

I reviewed the article as well and came to the same conclusion. 

Nokia is a smaller presence in the U.S. than elsewhere because of its 
small product  "footprint" in the CDMA handset business. WIMAX will 
provide a chance for Nokia to become a major if not dominant participant 
in the U.S. mobile device market as it evolves over the next 10 years.  
No doubt, this is why Nokia has teamed with Sprint/Clearwire on Xhom. 

Sprint has to solve its fundamental cost/quality problem of having two 
networks with two technologies, one of which is highly proprietary 
(Qualcomm CDMA), and one of which is that and highly obsolete as well 
(Motorola Iden).  By committing to an "all IP all the time" network 
buildout  based on Wimax, Sprint/ Clearwire may very well become the 
first major operator worldwide to have a mobile network that 
instantiates what is perhaps the most significant requirement of 4g 
networks.

Ericsson on the other hand clearly wants to kill off WIMAX in favor of  
its instantiation of LTE^1 which Ericsson would also like to see as the 
dominant technology for the upcoming 700 MHZ FCC auction in the U.S.


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http://rcrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070926/FREE/70926002/1014


Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

Acadia Secure Networks
*serving the SmartDigital^TM home, entrepreneurial enterprise, and 
emerging network service provider markets***

* *

 

Tony Maro wrote:
>
>
> On 9/30/07, *Brad Midgley* <bmidgley at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bmidgley at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Guys
>
>     More than any nationalist agenda, I think the guy is just trying to
>     posit an unlikely outcome--a single playing sewing up what has been a
>     fragmented market. He then tossed together some weak subjective
>     evidence he thought would support it.
>
>     Brad
>
>
> I completely agree-  he's just trying to find ways to say that Apple 
> will pwn the world.  However, he does link to the FCC reports for the 
> next gen Internet tablet, which was a nice surprise for me.  What 
> Nokia lacked with the n800 was really just US marketing if you ask 
> me.  I had never heard of it until I stumbled on some Slashdot or Digg 
> comment that mentioned it.  That's why I bought it.  I never saw one 
> in a store, never saw an ad, never saw an online article before that, 
> and it's been out for months.
>
> -- 
> Tony Maro
> http://www.maro.net/ossramblings.php
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