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The telcos will provide WiMAX.

What is happenning is that things are converging, you will either have FTTD (Fiber to the door) for residential, WiMAX for long hop (30km or so) wireless which your phone or wireless device will run on (roughly 2007 or 2008 based upon work being done on $G wireless in Asia and other places) and coaxial cable to the door (already existing). The services will be converged, the telcos and other servoce providors will handle address resolution (DNS, etc.) do that you can send messages, surf the web, make calls, etc. Look at who is working on the development of WiMAX, it includes the tlecos.

A few weeks back, there was an article about WiMAX in Tokyo, in this article there was a company listed who was involved in the rollout, a telco! They are providing things like DNS/address resolution, number (phone) resolution, etc. This is not something done by magic, it involved routingtables, switching (layer 3 switching on switching routers, ATM, etc.).

You appear to have a limited understanding or telecommunications in the wireless arena! WiMAX is just wireless telecommunications, just as fiber (62.5/125nm, 50/125nm) to the door is telecommunications (and the basis for converged services). The addrss resoultion and routing is not something done by magic, it involves tables (some dynamic vis Dynamic DNS, most are static).

Hyping a wireless broadband technology backed by the telcos as a way to get away from the telcos is just silly! You didn't get away from the telcos when yo went from landline to cellular, my GSM phone is still tied to the telcos (Deutsche Telecom, for example). When your phone (if it can) goes between GSM/GPRS/EDGE to WiFi or CDMA to WiFi, you are still going over the telco infrastructure, just a wireless one!

Posted by: B.O.F.H.   Posted on: 04/19/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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