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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1781)	4/2/2009 6:56:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation of 1819

Perhaps Nokia doesn't have bargain prices for WiMAX from Qualcomm as it does for LTE and that explains the shift in focus by Nokia: <It's especially harsh considering that the handset giant is usually much more circumspect about the comments and criticism it makes. It also still has a seat on the board of the WiMax Forum, the industry group that was set up to promote the technology and which Nokia was a founding member. It's now predicting that competing 4G technology LTE, or Long Term Evolution, championed by carriers Verizon and AT&T, will be the big winner. Vanjoki said, "It's my prediction that by 2015, we will have an LTE network that will cover most of the important places in the world and that will give us the coverage and capacity we need." > Yes, just as with EV-DO, LTE will provide the coverage and capacity that's needed, but at what price? If the current extorquerationate pricing used by mobile cyberspace "service" providers is anything to go by, regular humans will find prices for LTE out of this world. Wi-Fi is the economic way to connect to cyberspace now [instead of the super expensive mobile WAN operators]. In NZ, casual rates for data are $8 a megabyte from Telecom and Vodafone but only 10c a megabyte from Zenbu [Wi-Fi]. That's a significant difference. WiMAX could well have a place as a competitor to the LTE empires. Mqurice

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