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Quote from GigaOm:
Arun Bhikshesvaran, VP of business strategy and CTO for Ericsson North America, said the equipment maker has launched a trial of its LTE baseband equipment with an unnamed carrier. He expects it will be completed toward the end of the year.
He expects 2008 and 2009 to be the trial and test years for the standard and anticipates 2012 will see widespread deployment.
Go LTE, it’s your birthday, gonna pop a cap in WiMAX’s ass they be acting like a fool!
In all seriousness, my stance on the WiMAX versus LTE battle has resulted in many heated instant message conversations and profanity laced email discussions. I’m an LTE kind of guy, Verizon already said their switching to LTE, Telus in Canada is a CDMA operator in Canada who is switching to LTE, Europe will use LTE by default since it’s an evolution of HSPA, Japan already has LTE trials taking place … so what is wrong with all you WiMAX people? Drink the koolaid already.
Yes WiMAX is already up an running in Korea, yes Sprint plans to cover the United States with WiMAX in 2008, but if there isn’t a world wide ecosystem then who cares?
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
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