Sprint, T-Mobile expand options for wireless broadband on laptops

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Goodbye CDMA, HSPA, EDGE. Hello LTE, WiMax

Finally, with LTE, WiFi, and WiMax, the world is doing away with some of the incompatible hodge-podge of "standards", assuming that China doesn't try to flex its muscles and impose its home-grown protocols.

There's still a lot of work to be done, as, for example, different countries have incompatible flavors of, say, WiFi (Japan's WiFi is different from the US').

But with the simplification comes commoditizatio, which means that the hardware
will become cheaper.

Now all we need is carrier competition, which
unfortunately, is headed in the opposite
direction, as carriers consolidate, using economies of scale to lock out competitors
offering lower prices, greater bandwidth, or
both.

What's probably needed then will be carrier-less peer-to-peer networks using the new hardware.

That would force the carriers to reduce their excess profits to compete.

Posted by: rosanlo   Posted on: 03/26/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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