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From: Maurice Winn	5/23/2007 1:51:26 PM
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Eriq, I deem 4G to be OFDM. OFDM is here now and is running much faster than 3G. Yesterday I was going door to door selling zenbu.net.nz Wi-Fi network, and zenbu.co.nz [search]. My friend "Bucko", who is a technological illiterate uses an EV-DO Sierra data card in his notebook computer as his cyberspace connection. He nearly always is using his cyberputer in his house. I explained that he'd be better to go to slingshot.co.nz for ADSL to the house and plug in a Zenbu router and hey presto he'd have MUCH faster and cheaper cyberspace. Zenbu is running 802.11b at present on Linksys WRT 54GL Linux routers. One of these days 802.11n will be popular enough to use. OFDM is different enough from CDMA that it can reasonably be called 4G. While we [Zenbu] do our puny effort here, Livedoor has gone large scale. Livedoor is Tarken-san's old company in Japan, in which we own a little Tonka Truckload of shares - he was very impressed by Horie and co when working for them in Japan. Livedoor has built out Wi-Fi inside the Yamanote line. Tokyo has umpty million wall to wall rich techno-geek cyberspacoids with a cultural bias to electronic devices. So Livedoor's Wi-Fi is a serious piece of 4G. The battle will be between wide area network 3G CDMA by QCOM and short range Wi-Fi by Zenbu [and others]. QCOM's job will be to make multimode ASICs so people can cerf around on whichever network is right for them where they are. New Zealand has expensive ADSL and little fibre, so we are a lot different from Tokyo which has fibre everywhere and people to use it. Comments on Zenbu appreciated. Mqurice

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