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Story: 3.5G drives rapid mobile broadband growth

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Posted by: James B (Thursday 10 January 2008, 3:07 PM)

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WiMax & HSDPA

WiMax obviously has massive potential in the US where cellular networks are so behind the times and public access Wi-Fi is already well established but I am not so sure about in Europe.

I have read of the two standards coming together but am not clear on how this will happen. Intel (let's face it - hardly the most caring, sharing company) have publicly gunned down cellular networks and the poor quality mobile internet experience they deliver. Their move to integrate WiMax on the chipset might create more barriers to integration and more competitive reasons for the two standards to protect some of their unique identity.

Agreed - don't write off WiMax (Intel will not let it fail)

Not so sure that we can expect integrated networks anytime soon. I think the new gen of 7.2 USB cards are the way to go. Coverage is rapidly improving on blackspots like the trains and there is more to come....

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