TelecomWeb — This was bound to happen.
Sprint Nextel is going to test Wireless Broadband (WiBRO) — the home-grown South Korean implementation of the IEEE 802.16e standard that’s also behind WiMAX/HiperMAN. In a deal with Samsung Telecommunications, which has set a commercial launch of WiBRO in South Korea next year, Sprint Nextel said it’s going to hold laboratory tests, customer field trials and interoperability tests of WiBRO equipment.
The company did not commit to a roll-out of WiBRO, a move that would signal Sprint’s rejection of WiMAX/HiperMAN, but rather said that its plan is to consider multiple 802.16e implementations
Why don’t companies work harder at establishing standards? Instead of multiple 802.16e implementations, why not one that works really well? This is like the whole Blu-ray vs HD-DVD choice. Some film studios have gone the way of Blu-ray some are going with HD-DVD. Now what are the chances I am going to have a player that reads both? Same thing here. I’m tired of proprietary hardware and software.
By the way. I love the Fort Worth pictures. I live about 10 miles of south of Cowtown myself.
Shouldn’t Sprint just grease some politicians pockets in Philadelphia and elsewhere and get themselves guaranteed government contracts for city-wide internet access? Why bother spending all this money on higher quality?