Comments on: HSPA to dominate mobile broadband?

Juniper Research predicts that 70 percent of mobile-broadband subscribers will use souped-up version of 3G by 2012.

[bkedersha]

WiMax not here yet? Smoking crack again, I see!

Mobile WiMax is already in South Korea, and will be in DC and Chicago at the end this year. Sprint (The Nextel name will be gone as soon as they get NASCAR to go along with using Sprint), will roll out WiMax for the rest of the USA in 2008. Fixed WiMax is available in numerous markets right now.

[df503]

I had Wimax 2 years ago

I agree, mobile Wimax is new, but Wimax already here.

I tried a fixed Wimax service that mounted an directional antenna on my house and it was fine, until Verizon Fios started rolling out in my city.

[kerton]

Best Buy

"Fixed WiMax is available in numerous markets right now." Agreed.

But the article is about mobile broadband, so replying about fixed WiMAX is off-topic. But the WiMAX promoters have always been deft at switching the subject to suit the message they want to promote.

Yet you seem to thing mobile WiMAX is here. Really? Then let's go down to Best Buy together, and you can show me which aisle the WiMAX modems are in. Are they next to the Sprint or VZW EV-DO modems, or over by the AT&T HSDPA modems?

While were at it, point me towards the laptops with the integrated WiMAX modems, since I'm bored of the ones with EV-DO integrated. I know Intel CEO Paul Otellini said in 2004 that I could buy a mobile WiMAX laptop by 2005, so please just tell me where to shop for that.

Look, dude, I'm not saying this stuff will never exist, but you have a strange way of using the future tense and then saying it's the present. "Will be in DC and Chicago at the end this year". You tell me, is that present or future? And do you take all telco promises as fact?

RE: Korea. WiBRO isn't exactly WiMAX. Among the reasons the Koreans standardized on WiBRO was that they didn't want to WAIT for mobile WiMAX. As for how it's working...well, there were the battery issues, the delays in Samsung's ability to produce working handsets, and this: WiBRO launched in June 2006, and by February this year KT's 906 subscribers vastly outpaced SK Telecom's 151. No, those numbers aren't typos.

References:
Korea WiBRO:
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20070206/163129.shtml

Paul Otellini:
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20061002/112555.shtml

[jacomo]

500Kbps or even 768Kbps is not Broadband

Get over it CewllCarrier officionados. Your bandwidth whether HSDPA or EV-DO Rev A or B are nwo and will remain Narrowband (below 2Mbps) until the new LITE networks come on line or Verizon Wireless wins and deploys its 700Mhz services (to beef up its CDMA based net)in 2010-2011.
Do not get me wrong, a consistant (and the key word here is consistant)768Kbps for a portable service is not bad, comprable to many DSL Lite services, but it does not compete with either the new Mesh Networks (6-10Mbps) or the planned WiMAX Mobile that will allow 2-3 Mbps. To bad the Cell nets bandwidth is asymmetrical which will kill it as P2P and Music/Video exchanges will dominate the user space.

Jacomo

[skrubol]

Who defined broadband bandwidth?

Broadband has nothing to do with bandwidth, all it means is that the data is spread out over a wide group of frequencies (ethernet, even up to 10Gbps is not broadband, nor is Fios.) Technically I think you are right in saying that these systems are narrowband, but they always will be, even at speeds greater than 2Mbps.
A lot of DSL is 1.5Mbps or slower (I'm remote enough to be stuck with 768k,) but I've never heard anyone venture to say that any DSL can't be considered broadband.

[Quemann]

HSPA will dominate?

If any market research is dependent more on rearview mirrors, then it will only extrapolate the things gone by. An aggregation of extensive interviews with market leaders will generate anomalies. In-depth market research should depend less on how many market leaders are interviewed than on what is hot in the lab benches, when it comes to fast-evolving technology, like mobile broadband. It is a little premature to take the Juniper Research report seriously 'cause time will tell which technology will prevail.