Right. The US is repeating the mistake it made when it let carriers decide which tech to implement -- GSM or CDMA -- that lead to the US being significantly behind in coverage and network robustness. By allowing competing carriers to duplicate investments in covering the same areas with 2 different technologies, they robbed those less-densely populated areas of coverage -- there's only so much money for infrastructure.
Compare that to nearly every other civilized country that set the standard (one OR the other) and, as a result, have vastly superior networks. I wish the government would just work with carriers to decide one standard (WiMAX -or- LTE) and then let everyone compete on a common standard. But hey, the free market always works best, right? :-/ On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Levi Wallach <[email protected]> wrote: > 4G = Wimax AND other 4G technologies, specifically LTE, the main competing > technology. > > > Levi Wallach > blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com > tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) > > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:29 PM, ldouglas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > If we keep 4G and WiMax separate (and I think we should)...how many > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
