Comments on: Alcatel-Lucent refocuses WiMAX business to support LTE

By: Torgerson.tv » LTE is to Wi-Max as Blue-Ray was to HD-DVD

Torgerson.tv » LTE is to Wi-Max as Blue-Ray was to HD-DVD — Sat, 02 May 2009 06:36:50 +0000

[...] of support insignificant however; when you see stories like Alcatel Lucent making a clear stand on re-focusing all Wi-Max resource over to support LTE it makes you question the long-term viability of Wi-Max. Alcatel-Lucent even goes on to state [...]

By: State of WiMAX: Will Huawei Win It All?

State of WiMAX: Will Huawei Win It All? — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:00:58 +0000

[...] billion WiMAX network being built by BSNL, the state-owned Indian telecom company. With Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent (a ALU) having retreated from the WiMAX market, one wonders: Who is going to win the WiMAX equipment [...]

By: Joe Smith

Joe Smith — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:48:50 +0000

With Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent continually bleeding money, I wouldn’t use their technology roadmaps as a indicator of the industry. They both have made bad choices for years.

By: Aggregator @ Bitubique

Aggregator @ Bitubique — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:46:24 +0000

Our Readers Take on the LTE v. WiMAX Debate…

When I wrote last week about Sprint giving up control of its 4G future, my post engendered a lively debate among some of our commenters about the technical merits of LTE and WiMAX. Since most of our readers aren’t planning a network buildout, the…

By: Our Readers Take on the LTE v. WiMAX Debate

Our Readers Take on the LTE v. WiMAX Debate — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:49:28 +0000

[...] especially since two equipment vendors Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent have respectively halted and reduced their WiMAX business lines. So here’s what our commenters told [...]

By: Arnon Kohavi

Arnon Kohavi — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:14:39 +0000

Wireless DSL…in 2000, my company Vyyo helped form the Wireless DSL Consortium which went nowhere:

http://telephonyonline.com/wireless/mag/wireless_wireless_dsl_consortium/

Many of the same players participated then. Since then everyone has been trying to address the same market with zero results.

3G/4G is the technology for WAN/mobility and WiFi is the technology for LAN. For a new technology to succeed, it needs to either address a new market (which WiMax does not do except in rural and developing world), or be so much better (which it is not and this rarely happens), or be endorsed by the major players (again, major operators and device makers never supported WiMax).
As Intel is a good contrarian indicator in the wireless space, perhaps if Intel exits WiMax, the technology will finally do well…

By: Amit Jain

Amit Jain — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:46:28 +0000

WiMAX is quickly becoming a niche technology, with Clearwire as the only large customer.

ALU’s announcement comes on the heels of NT’s decision to end its OEM partnership with Alvarion and Nokia’s deicsion to discontinue its only WiMAX handset. Last October, there were stories about NSN defocusing WiMAX, especially when Clearwire replaced NSN with Samsung in several markets.

WiMAX’s appeal so far has been in (a) its appeal to work in TDD spectrum and (b) Intel’s backing for chipsets. LTE will likely make both of these irrelevant