Comments on: Cable hedges its wireless bets

Cable companies are ponying up big bucks to get into the wireless market, but will their strategies be successful?

[jacomo]

The new Clearwire will have to address the limitations of the 2.5Ghz spectrum as a competitor to VZW and AT&T new 700Mhz network.
They do have, with their SpectrumCo consortium partners (TW and ComCast), the AWS (1700Mhz & 2100Mhz) that covers some 99% of the Nationwide market that will allow Clearwire to migrate very nicely to a 4G network near term. This would give them a 2-3 year lead on any LTE network planned by the big CellCo in delivering Broadband Wireless services that could not only compete with the CellCo Narrowband Cell nets but also impact both AT&T and Verizon broadband wired data (DSL) services.
There are at least two major radio manufacturers that are developing AWS based WiMAX systems that should be avail in the late 2009/earluy 2010 time frame.
The AWS spectrum would allow Clearwire to address their initial trial markets with the 2.5Ghz spectrum, that does work well in Urban canyons and then deploy a parallel AWS network for the Rural and Subriban markets (Dual mode 2.5Ghz and AWS Sets).

Jim A. (aka Jacomo)

[bdennis410]

Remember this phrase,"Anything,Anytime, Anywhere.'
IF WI-fI, THEN WI MAX, OR ANY OTHER COMBINATION OF WIRED AND WIRELESS DELIVERY DOESN'T OFFER THIS CAPABILITY, IN THE LONGER RUN,3-5 YEARS, IT WON'T BE COMPETITIVE, OR VIABLE.
THE STRATEGIES AND POLITICS OF THE MARKETPLACE NOTWITHSTANDING,THE "END GAME" is in sight.
It is still the politics of cable monopolies, and now telco to attempt to carve out, through political and economic machinations, their definition of the most profitable marketplace.
Other countries (14 at last count) offer higher broadband capabilities, upload and download to consumers, at higher penetration rates, at lower consumer costs, than the U.S. marketplace.
If nothing else speaks to you, that fact should adequately address the failure of the FCC and FTC, and our legislators to make the U.S. a competitive marketplace. This can only be accomplished with the forced separation of infrastructure access for Content, and the actual management, design, and buildout of an "Anything, Anytime, Anyplace" infrastructure.
Oh, and no monopolies allowed.

[benjaminstraight]

It is simply the future. Glad to see adaption coming.