Comments on: Clearwire’s Wolff: ‘full speed ahead’ with WiMAX http://www.muniwireless.com/2008/12/04/clearwires-wolff-full-speed-ahead-with-wimax/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clearwires-wolff-full-speed-ahead-with-wimax Citywide WiFi, smart grid, enterprise wireless, public safety, mobile apps Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Esme Vos http://www.muniwireless.com/2008/12/04/clearwires-wolff-full-speed-ahead-with-wimax/#comment-36874 Esme Vos Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:29:56 +0000 http://www.muniwireless.com/?p=9341#comment-36874 The cellular operators are not going to be spending massive amounts of money in 2009 upgrading their networks to LTE because it's hard for them to raise additional funds for expansion. Meanwhile, data traffic on cellular networks will continue to rise, maybe not as rapidly as in 2008 but still, a steady increase. So what are operators - cellular and WiFi - going to do about this demand for more data? Why wouldn't they work with WiMAX operators to offload some of that traffic onto WiMAX networks? Apple's iPhone has over 16% market share of the smartphone market. When was the iPhone first released? June 2007. That's a massive increase. iPhone users account for a large percentage of the data traffic. The cellular operators are not going to be spending massive amounts of money in 2009 upgrading their networks to LTE because it's hard for them to raise additional funds for expansion. Meanwhile, data traffic on cellular networks will continue to rise, maybe not as rapidly as in 2008 but still, a steady increase.

So what are operators – cellular and WiFi – going to do about this demand for more data? Why wouldn't they work with WiMAX operators to offload some of that traffic onto WiMAX networks?

Apple's iPhone has over 16% market share of the smartphone market. When was the iPhone first released? June 2007. That's a massive increase. iPhone users account for a large percentage of the data traffic.

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