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WiMAX 2 Coming Later This Year

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Apr 12, 2010, 9:36 AM   by Philip Berne

The WiMAX 2 Collaboration Initiative has issued a release with some updates on the progress of WiMAX 2, the IEEE 802.16m standard. With backers like Intel, Motorola, Samsung, Beceem and ZTE, the group hopes to have the air interface standard definition completed in the second half of 2010. The group predicts WiMAX 2 will reach peak download rates up to 300 Mbps, more than double the peak theoretical speeds of the original 802.16e WiMAX standard. The new technology will be backwards compatible with the original WiMAX networks. As part of the announcement, Mike Sievert, Chief Commercial Officer with Clearwire, the subsidiary company that holds Sprint's commercial 4G spectrum licenses, claimed that "Clear mobile customers are using an average of more than 7GB of data per month" on the Clear network.

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trojandrew

Apr 12, 2010, 7:08 PM

wimax 2, all the haters didn't believe me

well believe me now sucka
i was kinda wondering why all the LTE people are so quite!!
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Disrespect

Apr 12, 2010, 2:48 PM

Clearwire 4G update

Some people were interested in how it works in Houston...


I have it for about a month now and its lovely. Its like DSL.
I watched hulu lol I've never heard of it before and decided to check it out and it worked great with my 4g card.
Disrespect said:
Some people were interested in how it works in Houston...


I have it for about a month now and its lovely. Its like DSL.
I watched hulu lol I've never heard of it before and decided to check it out and it work
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I live in Las Vegas, and there's Clear 4G here, I had it for a while, had to minimize my budget, anyway, do you ever get above 15mbps there? I reached that speed like twice.
DE 2 Philly

Apr 12, 2010, 10:58 AM

Extremely Impressed

I cannot wait for Wimax to reach its potential (or until later this year, next year).

Especially when coupled w/ a device like the HTC EVO
As this rolls I'm changing my mind about Sprint's decision to go WiMax. LTE is still just a pipedream, and Wimax is running in several areas, and it is already being upgraded to be even faster. Honestly, if I lived in a 4G area I don't know how I'd sa...
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snowbdr89

Apr 12, 2010, 5:05 PM

what does this do for date speeds on your cell?

i dont really know much about this stuff so can someone explain what kinda of speeds you should expect on your cell phone? thanks go lakers 😁
If you have a 4G device you should expect speeds similar to broadband on the wireless device. It's like having wireless DSL.
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SpykedVodka

Apr 12, 2010, 10:12 AM

Considering

They haven't even rolled out the original Wi-Max Service Nationwide yet....

Does that mean that cities like Philadelphia are all ready out dated?
From the article:

"The new technology will be backwards compatible with the original WiMAX networks."
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