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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (29663)	4/3/2009 12:56:22 AM
From: Peter Ecclesine	Respond to of 46821

@ CTIA: Clearwire's Ben Wolff Says There Is A Solution To The Capacity Problem It's Spectrum Tricia Duryee, Thursday April 2, 2009, 1:00 pm EDT finance.yahoo.com Clearwire has an average of 120 MHz of spectrum in most of its U.S. markets. Wolff: "If you have 120 MHz of spectrum, you can deliver 540 MB/sec. If you have 10 MHz, you have throughput of 45 MB/second." To solve the capacity crunch, he said there's four things we need to do: —Spectrum: You need about 40 MHz of spectrum at the minimum to deliver 4G, he said. Clearwire has an average of 120 MHz. —Technology: You need the right infrastructure to deliver it. "There's a clear difference between 3G and 4G, but between 4G standards, they are comparable. I don't see a lot of difference between 4G technologies." —Network: It's all IP, which increases bandwidth and performance. —Devices: You need a lot of devices in order to acquire customers. Today, Clearwire has more than 30 laptop computers that have WiMax embedded in it. They'll have 100 devices by the end of the year. This week it announced the ClearSpot, which allows you to plug in WiMax, and deliver Wi-Fi to multiple devices.

To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (29663)	4/3/2009 9:26:32 AM
From: Sam Citron	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

Who says WiMAX is the gold standard of wireless ? Not me. I say a nation should pick a standard after consultation and an attempt at coordination with a worldwide telecom agency, build out an infrastructure conforming to the standard as a public-private partnership, then repeat after 10 years or so. My gripe is with a statement that seems to belittle the value of standards themselves: "Don't let a standard do your thinking for you." To me it suggests Innovation Über Alles. I think innovation is very important, but implementation is equally important and that without cooperation and coordination we get patchy and expensive systems that don't realize their full potential. They are like super-expensive roads built for cars that don't exist yet. Nobody would be insane enough to do this for automobiles, so why do they do it for telephones and computers? I say telecom roadbuilding is an essential government function. Do you disagree? If so, why? SC